Investing.com – After starting 2025 with a timid rise of 0.18% last Thursday, the stock plunged 1.51% on Friday.
Stocks in the luxury and automobile sectors largely weighed on the trend, following disappointing statistics in China, a key market for several French brands in these industries.
Let us emphasize that it is Dry (EPA:) which posted the biggest decline among CAC 40 stocks on Friday, falling 4.88%.
And although the index shows a rebound this Monday, its profile continues to call for caution.
While the year 2025 is off to a cold start for French stocks, injecting a little more security into stock market portfolios could be the right strategy.
For this, looking at dividend stocks is definitely very relevant. Indeed, stocks that pay dividends are by definition profitable, and are also often mature companies.
But above all, dividends provide investors with income regardless of changes in stock prices.
17 French dividend stocks to take a closer look at
Helped by the powerful Investing.com screener, and using functions reserved for InvestingPro subscribers, we set out to look for French stocks that combine the following qualities:
- A dividend yield greater than 5%
- An upward potential according to Fair Value greater than 10%
- A financial health score greater than 2.5
- A capitalization greater than 1 billion euros
Remember that the financial health score is based on several key metrics divided into 5 categories and sub-scores to provide an assessment of the financial strength of each stock, on a scale of 0 to 5. Exclude stocks displaying a score lower than the average therefore limits the risk of choosing stocks that pay dividends to the detriment of their financial health.
InvestingPro Fair Value calculates for each share an intelligent synthesis of recognized valuation models in order to provide a precise objective. Choosing to exclude stocks with an upside potential of less than +10% therefore allows you to exclude overvalued dividend stocks.
Note that although the basic functions of the Investing.com screener are free, the search carried out for this article includes filters reserved for InvestingPro subscribers, Pro+ plan.
If this is your case, you can click here to access this preconfigured search directly on the screener.
This research therefore allowed us to identify 17 actions:
- The upside potential of these stocks ranges from +13.2% to +53.7% according to InvestingPro Fair Value
- Their dividend yield ranges from 5.4% to 18.8%
- 4 of the stocks on the list are members of the
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