4 Industrial Tech Stocks Riding the AI Boom and Paying Dividends Along the Way

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Four Nasdaq industrial names feed the AI data center and factory buildout, yet each sends shareholders a quarterly check. Their payouts look tiny, but the real story is how little of the profit they claim and which one has raised longest.

Machine vision, precision power, switchgear, and circuit protection all feed the AI data center and factory automation buildout. Four Nasdaq-listed industrial tech companies serving those markets also send shareholders a quarterly check. Their yields are modest, so the dividend works as a bonus on top of the growth. What makes the group work for income investors is that each payout takes only a small share of earnings, so it can keep growing as profits rise. Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) is the clearest example: its quarterly dividend has climbed from $0.18 in 2011 to $0.80 per share.

Cognex (NASDAQ:CGNX) builds the eyes of the automated factory: vision sensors, vision systems, barcode readers, and AI-powered inspection software that help manufacturers and warehouses catch defects and track parts. It serves more than 30,000 customers.

Yield: The annualized forward dividend is $0.36 per share. At a share price of $52.55, that works out to about a 0.69% yield.

Dividend safety: The new quarterly dividend of $0.09 uses about 17% of third-quarter adjusted EPS of $0.53. Free cash flow came in at $103.8 million for the quarter, up 20.6% from a year earlier. Cognex holds $694.7 million in cash and carries no debt. The dividend has gone up every year in the available history, from $0.05 in 2019 to the current $0.09, and the latest raise came from $0.085.

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Bull case: Third-quarter revenue hit a record $313.39 million, up 13.2%, and GAAP gross margin widened to 70.8% from 67.6%. Management raised its full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $1.68 to $1.72.

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