I’m all the time looking for low cost dividend shares so as to add to my passive earnings portfolio. When costs rise, yields dip — however when the alternative occurs, dividend shares change into very enticing. Grabbing some high-yielding, undervalued shares simply earlier than the ex-dividend date¹ can result in a good-looking payout! 

However it’s additionally vital to assume long run. If an undervalued inventory doesn’t have restoration potential, it might be all for nothing.

With that in thoughts, listed here are two UK dividend shares that look low cost proper now. I’m eager to seek out out the place they could be in a yr.

Imperial Manufacturers

Imperial Manufacturers (LSE: IMB) is a UK multinational tobacco firm identified for Winston cigarettes and Backwoods cigars. It’s been pivoting in the direction of much less dangerous next-gen merchandise (NGPs) like vapes and e-cigarettes. The dividend yield is an honest 5.3% with a payout ratio of 51% — greater than sufficient protection.

However declining smoking charges and evolving regulatory landscapes are challenges the corporate has confronted. Though the transition to NGPs is promising, they’re at the moment loss-making and their long-term profitability is unsure. Subsequently, the corporate has run up £9bn in debt which places earnings (and dividend funds) in danger.

Nonetheless, earnings beat expectations final yr and its web margin has elevated from 9% to 14% since 2022.

With a below-average price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of solely 9, it seems to be prefer it has area for extra development. Plus, it’s buying and selling at 44% beneath worth utilizing a reduced money circulation mannequin. That’s spectacular, contemplating the inventory is up 69% previously yr – one way or the other, it nonetheless seems to be low cost!

If that efficiency continues, it might be a profitable passive earnings machine sooner or later. So I feel it’s a robust dividend inventory that’s price trying into now.

Paypoint

Paypoint (LSE: PAY) is a £444m FTSE 250 firm specialising in multichannel fee and retail companies. Many Britons use its companies every day with out even realising it.

The enterprise operates throughout 4 foremost divisions: purchasing, e-commerce, funds and vouchers.​ It supplies digital options and fee companies to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), together with Open Banking companies for funds through direct debit, playing cards and money.

Being within the finance sector, it faces particular challenges from financial downturns and regulatory adjustments, to not point out robust competitors. It’s additionally liable to technological developments that might render its companies out of date.

Efficiency in 2024 was spectacular although, with underlying EBITDA up 32.6% and revenue earlier than tax up 21.5%. The dividend yield sits at 6.3% and it has a trailing P/E ratio of 11.43. Its in any other case stable dividend monitor report was dented by reductions in 2019 and 2021. Nevertheless, dividends have nonetheless grown at an annual fee of 4.84% over the previous 15 years.

To additional affirm its dedication to shareholders, it just lately introduced a three-year £20m share buyback programme.

Why these shares?

The above shares had been chosen based mostly on their dividend historical past, monetary efficiency and low valuation. Plus, their future return on fairness (ROE) is forecast to be above 30%.

These metrics are used to disclose firms which can be buying and selling beneath their intrinsic worth and have good development potential. I consider they’re each effectively price contemplating as a part of a long-term passive earnings funding technique.

^{1 The ex-dividend date is the date earlier than which an investor shopping for shares will qualify for that interval’s dividend.}