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CompuGroup Medical SE & Co KgaA (CMPVF) provides electronic health solutions to healthcare providers through four segments: (1) Ambulatory information systems, (2) Pharmacy information systems, (3)Hospital information systems, and (4) Consumer and Health Management Information Systems.

The Ambulatory information systems segment contributes to the majority of revenue and provides practice management software and electronic medical record management.

Pharmacy information systems provide clinical, administrative, and financial software for retail pharmacies.

The Hospital information systems segment sells its solutions to in-patient centers.

Consumer and Health Management Information Systems offers networking service connect providers and other market participants.

The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Koblenz, Germany.

Three key data points gauge CompuGroup Medical or any dividend-paying firm.

The key three are:

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

Those three keys also best tell whether any company has made, is making, and will make money.

CMPVF Price

Over the past year, CompuGroup’s share price dropped about 51% from $34.00 to $18.04 as of Friday’s market close.

If CompuGroup shares trade in the range of $15.00 to $21.00 this next year, its recent $18.04 share price might rise to $18.50 by next year. Of course, CompuGroup’s price could also drop about the same $0.46 estimated amount, or more.

My $0.46 upside estimate is pure conjecture. The market appears to have judged this company a loser CMPVF price is now at its all time low.

CMPVF Dividend

CompuGroup has paid variable Annual dividends since May, 2012, except for 2020.

CMPVF’s most recent A dividend of $1.08 was declared April 10thfor shareholders of record May 23rd and the dividend was paid May 27th.

A forward looking $1.08 annual dividend would yield 5.99% at Friday’s closing share price.

CMPVF Returns

To put it all together, a $1.54 estimated gross gain per share for the coming year results from adding CompuGroup’s $1.08 dividend to the estimated price upside of $0.46.

A little under $1000 buys 55 shares at $18.04 per share.

A $10 broker fee (if charged), paid half at purchase and half at sale, might take out $0.18 per share out of the $1.54 gross gain to reveal a net gain of $1.36 X 55 shares = $74.80 for about a 7.5% estimated net gain on the year.

Furthermore, the $59.90 annual dividend income from $1K invested is over 3.3 times greater than the $18.04 single share price. By these numbers, CompuGroup Medical SE & Co KgaA may be an ideal dividend dog.

You might choose to pounce on CompuGroup Medical. It is a 37 year-old dividend-paying German-based medical communication software firm that has an 12 year track record paying annual variable dividends.

The exact track of CompuGroup’s future price and dividend will entirely be determined by market action.

Remember the true value of any stock is best realized through personal ownership of shares.

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