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The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider’s view of the business, and presumably, the only reason an insider would choose to take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock in the open market, is that they expect to make money — maybe they find the stock very undervalued, or maybe they see exciting progress within the company, or maybe both.

Franklin Street Properties FSPSo, when stocks turn up that see insider buying and are also top-ranked, investors are wise to take notice. One such company is Franklin Street Properties Corp. (NYSEMKT:FSP), which saw buying by CFO John G. Demeritt.

Back on Nov. 12, Demeritt invested $12,101.37 into 1,000 shares of FSP for a cost per share of $12.10. FSP stock was recently changing hands as low as $12.99 per share, which is 7.3% above Demeritt’s purchase price.

It should be noted that Demeritt has collected 19 cents per share in dividends since the time of the purchase. So, FSP is are currently up 8.9% on the purchase from a total return basis. Franklin Street Properties stock was recently trading 0.69% on the day.

The chart below shows the one-year performance of FSP shares versus its 200-day moving average:

Franklin Street Properties Corp Chart

Looking at the chart above, FSP’s low point in its 52-week range is $11.04 per share, with $13.60 as the 52-week high point — that compares with a last trade of $13.10.

The DividendRank report noted that among the coverage universe, FSP shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. For example, the recent FSP share price of $13 represents a price-to-book ratio of 1.3 and an annual dividend yield of 5.85% — by comparison, the average company in Dividend Channel’s coverage universe yields 4.3% and trades at a price-to-book ratio of 1.9.

The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Franklin Street Properties and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.

The report stated,

”Dividend investors approaching investing from a value standpoint are generally most interested in researching the strongest most profitable companies, that also happen to be trading at an attractive valuation. That’s what we aim to find using our proprietary DividendRank formula, which ranks the coverage universe based upon our various criteria for both profitability and valuation, to generate a list of the top most ‘interesting’ stocks, meant for investors as a source of ideas that merit further research.”

The annualized dividend paid by Franklin Street Properties Corp is 76 cents per share, currently paid in quarterly installments, and its most recent dividend ex-date was on Jan. 21. Below is a long-term dividend history chart for FSP, which the report stressed as being of key importance.

Indeed, studying a company’s past dividend history can be of good help in judging whether the most recent dividend is likely to continue.

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