This Dividend Beast Trades at Less Than 8 Times Earnings

This Dividend Beast Trades at Less Than 8 Times Earnings

With the market now in bear territory, it's a good time to look for stocks trading at a discount, because over the long term you are likely to see good stocks recover relatively quickly and continue to appreciate. Long known as a company with volatile and inconsistent earnings, the investment banking giant Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has raised its quarterly dividend a ton since 2019 and now boasts an attractive yield for dividend investors. Goldman hasn't always been known as a dividend stock, but with its latest announced increase, which isn't reflected in the chart above, the bank plans to raise its quarterly dividend from $2 per share to $2.50 starting in the third quarter.