Dividend Growth Stocks Of Tomorrow: CDW Corporation by Wealth Insights

Summary

• CDW Corporation is an IT solutions provider that pairs businesses, schools, government, and health care providers with a variety of cloud, work space, security, and hardware/software products and services.
• The industry is growing rapidly as organizations continue to modernize, and this has fueled great growth for CDW Corporation.
• However, the stock is expensive and the industry is very competitive. Investors should look for a margin of safety if they are considering owning shares.

Dividend growth investing is a popular and largely successful approach to generating wealth over long periods of time. We will be spotlighting numerous dividend up-and-comers to identify the best "dividend growth stocks of tomorrow." Today, we look at CDW Corporation (CDW), a digital solutions provider. While the company has experienced strong growth over the years, its margins and FCF streams leave us wanting more. There is a large growth runway in the cloud and services sector, but the highly competitive nature of this business does negatively affect CDW Corporation's operating metrics. Investors should consider a margin of safety if they want to own shares.

Overview

CDW Corporation is an integrated IT solutions provider. The company provides a host of hardware/software products and services, including cloud, equipment, security, digital workspace, data center, and consulting services. It deals primarily with customers in the US, UK, and Canada. Its customer profile includes private firms, healthcare providers, education, government, and small businesses.

(Source: CDW Corporation)

How does the company service these customers? Suppose you are a university that wants to migrate from in-house servers to a cloud service. These non-technically affluent organizations don't devise their own solution. Instead, they come to a company such as CDW Corporation. CDW Corporation has partnerships with a number of digital operators to be able to offer its customer base a wide variety of solutions. It would essentially help implement whatever services/products are needed to accomplish the task at hand.

(Source: CDW Corporation)

The demand for digital products/services has been strong over the past decade, and this shows up in CDW's revenues. Just over the past five years, revenue has grown 45%, while net income has grown 190%. This works out to average per year rates of 8.56% and 37.09%, respectively.

(Source: YCharts)

Fundamentals

With such a rapid rate of expansion over the past five years, we are interested in looking deeper into operations to see how the company has managed this success. To do this, we will analyze a few key operating metrics.

We review operating margins to make sure the company is consistently profitable. We also want to invest in companies with strong cash flow streams, so we look at the conversion rate of revenue to free cash flow. Lastly, we want to see that management is effectively deploying the company's financial resources, so we review the cash rate of return on invested capital (CROCI). We will do all of these using three benchmarks:

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