Ought to traders purchase these low cost FTSE 250 revenue shares in March?

These FTSE 250 revenue shares commerce on rock-bottom earnings multiples. May they be nice methods for traders to spice up their passive revenue at low price?

Marks and Spencer Group

Clothes and meals retailer Marks and Spencer (LSE:MKS) hasn’t paid a dividend for the final couple of years. However Metropolis analysts expect it to restart its payout coverage from the present monetary 12 months and to boost shareholder rewards quickly thereafter.

A complete dividend of 4.5p per share is forecast for the monetary 12 months to March. This leads to an honest beginning yield of two.8%.

Buying and selling on the firm has been extra spectacular of late — like-for-like gross sales rose 7.2% within the December quarter — and its drive to turn into a multichannel operator might assist it maintain this momentum and ship long-term progress.

In January, it introduced a £480m plan to overtake its retailer community to embrace the alternatives of e-commerce. This would come with the creation of 20 new bigger shops which may assist the corporate exploit the ‘Click on and Gather’ increase.

However I don’t but consider M&S is an efficient selection for revenue traders. Because the financial system splutters and excessive inflation persists, the outlook for earnings and dividends stays extremely unsure.

Newest knowledge on meals inflation from the British Retail Consortium makes for worrying studying. This confirmed annual value rises sped as much as 14.5% in February, from 13.8% the earlier month. The rising price of necessities leaves little left over for consumers to spend on clothes and homewares.

I’m additionally involved about M&S’s capacity to generate strong investor returns as competitors within the clothes sector heats up. This has the potential to place revenues and margins firmly on the again foot once more.

On stability, I feel traders ought to swerve shopping for the retailer’s shares. Not even a low ahead price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 10.7 instances is sufficient to change my thoughts.

Redrow

Housebuilder Redrow (LSE:RDW) seems to be like a much more enticing dividend inventory to me. And it’s not simply because it supplies higher all-round worth that Marks & Spencer, at the least on paper.

For the monetary 12 months to June, it trades on a P/E a number of of simply 6.2 instances. Its corresponding dividend yield in the meantime sits at 5.6%, crusing effectively above the three.1% common for FTSE 250 shares.

I feel Redrow’s long-term outlook is way extra reassuring than the aforementioned retailer. Britain has an enormous properties scarcity that appears set to worsen as weak construct charges persist and the inhabitants grows.

That doesn’t imply I’d purchase the corporate’s shares for passive revenue nevertheless. It’s because the housing market is locked in a downturn that would harm dividend ranges in the course of the brief to medium time period. Redrow’s personal order e book fell £400m 12 months on 12 months to £1.1bn as of 1 January.

Newest Nationwide knowledge confirmed common house costs fell 1.1% final month, the most important dip in over 10 years. Purchaser demand is weak and will stay in order rates of interest proceed rising and the financial system worsens.

I consider Redrow might ship massive returns over the following decade. It’s why I proceed to carry a number of FTSE 100 homebuilders in my portfolio. However I feel traders might be higher off shopping for different dividend shares for market-beating revenue this 12 months.