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Services Dividend Stocks With Highest Stock Performance - And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Services dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The more I discover the best performing stocks from the recent half year, the better the performance gets. 

Today I would like to discover stocks from the services sector with the highest year-to-date performance. The sector is the second best performer behind the healthcare segment but the performance is more unequal distributed: The best dividend stocks on the top 20 list have a price performance between 60 percent and 247 percent. Service is a place to be for investors.

In order to reduce some extraordinary companies and to get better results, I decided to exclude all stocks with a lower market capitalization (below USD 300 million). Small cap stocks have normally a higher performance ratio, also in this screen: More than half of the results have a market cap below a billion dollars. The average market cap of the top 20 stocks after my limit rule amounts to USD 2.6 billion.

Despite the strong stock price growth; twelve shares still have a buy or better rating. Broadcasting and TV companies are very hot and dominating the screening results. There is some rumor in the market about takeovers and mergers.

41 Top Yielding Stocks With Ex-Dividend Date In May 2013

Monthly high yielding shares researched by “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Yields come down; the decay is full in process because of the growing stock prices. Dividend investors like me are seeking for higher yields at the market but the results getting rare.

My solution is to scout for lower yielding stocks with hope that the next dividend hike could lift the current yield above the 3 percent level. But it’s more work to predict dividends and your risk increases when you have missed some details.

I always have a big picture of stocks that go ex-dividend in the near future in order to get quick cash back from my investments. Sure it’s not a trading strategy because after the ex-dividend date, the stock is also traded lower in the amount of the dividend but it is a great information tool.

However, I screen every month some interesting high yielding stocks with ex-dividend date within the next month. As result, I found 41 stocks with an average dividend yield of 4.98 percent. Three stocks have a double-digit yield and ten a high yield. 18 stocks from the results have a buy or better recommendation.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 06, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 06, 2013. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.33%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Navios Maritime Partners L.P.
880.23M
8.97
1.39
4.28
12.33%
Capital Product Partners L.P.
603.11M
74.36
0.92
3.78
11.37%
First Potomac Realty Trust
689.45M
-
1.03
3.66
4.44%
American Electric Power
21.83B
15.10
1.43
1.48
4.18%
Federated Investors, Inc.
2.45B
12.86
4.86
2.59
4.08%
CMS Energy Corp.
6.83B
19.82
2.13
1.10
3.96%
Oritani Financial Corp.
688.41M
18.73
1.36
5.50
3.96%
Belo Corp.
801.73M
9.48
2.87
1.16
3.75%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.
6.32B
16.35
4.94
0.47
3.57%
Cedar Realty Trust, Inc.
402.02M
-
0.64
2.88
3.57%
Unilever plc
120.50B
19.14
5.58
1.72
3.21%
First Community Bancshares
317.02M
11.86
0.90
2.89
3.04%
BB&T Corporation
21.36B
11.30
1.01
3.09
3.01%
Unilever NV
119.33B
18.95
5.46
1.70
2.76%
RPC Inc.
3.35B
12.01
3.73
1.72
2.62%
East West Bancorp, Inc.
3.31B
12.55
1.39
3.15
2.54%
Sensient Technologies
1.89B
15.16
37.66
1.31
2.31%
Cousins Properties Inc.
932.92M
-
1.57
5.86
2.01%
Parker Hannifin Corporation
13.80B
13.75
2.59
1.05
1.86%
Pall Corp.
7.54B
25.71
4.28
2.85