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When viewing FTSE 100 stocks to consider buying, it sometimes pays to look beyond the obvious big names.
Diploma (LSE: DPLM) is a brilliant example. It’s delivered a total return of 508.8% over the last 10 years, new figures from AJ Bell show. That would have turned a £10,000 investment into £60,880. Yet it doesn’t get anything like the attention of, say, Rolls-Royce.
The shares are so rewarding
Diploma’s a specialist distributor of technical products that joined the FTSE 100 in 2023. It focuses on niche markets where competition’s limited, using both acquisitions and expansion of its existing portfolio to keep growing.
It’s a brilliant dividend stock, although investors wouldn’t know by looking at the modest trailing 1.1% yield. That’s a fraction of the 3.25% FTSE 100 average. Yet that’s not necessarily a weakness.
AJ Bell points out that a sky-high…
