20 Top Yielding Electic Utilites With Sustainable Dividend Payouts For Growth

Well-managed electric utilities are excellent candidates for a dividend reinvestment portfolio. Typically, electric utilities generate lots of excess cash and pay it out as dividends to shareholders.

But not all utilities are equal. Some pay high amounts of their net income to shareholders in form of dividends, other only a small part. Be very wary of stocks with high dividend yields and high payout ratios. They are not sustainable and increase the debt level of the company over the long-term.

I'm looking for those utilities with low dividend payouts in order to get sustainable dividend payments over years that might grow, year over year for decades.

Attached you can find a detailed list of 20 electric utilities that might give investors a small hedge due to a solid dividend growth history and sustainable dividend payouts.

These are the 4 top yielding results in detail...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 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.

In total, 50 stocks go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.70%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	5.63B	-	1.33	3.08	12.77%
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.61B	-	1.09	1.03	5.83%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.08B	17.36	5.12	3.16	5.28%
PPL Corporation	PPL	18.12B	12.39	1.66	1.57	4.79%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.57B	13.79	1.46	1.46	4.32%
TELUS Corporation	TU	21.39B	17.54	3.01	2.01	3.93%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	7.55B	16.69	5.97	2.60	2.89%
Occidental Petroleum	OXY	72.26B	16.38	1.73	2.99	2.85%
Harris Corp.	HRS	6.28B	14.06	4.02	1.23	2.54%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	30.47B	10.47	1.22	1.17	2.47%
CME Group Inc.	CME	24.48B	26.30	1.12	8.50	2.44%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	12.64B	-	3.51	0.30	1.83%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.99B	19.10	4.05	1.91	1.81%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	26.17B	9.51	1.07	0.39	1.72%
Avnet Inc.	AVT	5.44B	12.32	1.27	0.21	1.51%
UMB Financial Corporation	UMBF	2.38B	21.29	1.94	7.01	1.44%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.58B	11.64	1.32	0.91	0.97%
CBS Corporation	CBS	33.25B	19.64	3.46	2.30	0.88%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	3.16B	17.89	0.69	0.72	0.84%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.54B	23.65	2.44	2.35	0.80%

72 Top Dividend Stocks With Ex-Dividend Date In September 2013

Monthly high yielding shares researched by “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. We are coming close to the end of August and I would like to look forward to find good stock ideas for the next month. 

I try to screen some interesting stocks that go ex-dividend within the next month.

I also publish articles each day on my site about the biggest ex-dividend shares of the next trading day. Let me say one thing. There is no margin trade idea behind because on the ex date, the stock will be traded ex-dividend and for a return of 0.5 percent it’s not attractive to hunt for a margin trade because the daily fluctuations are much higher.

But it makes sense to look at these lists because you get a quick overview about the stocks with a possible rising trading volume and if you are a long-term dividend investor, you get a quick cash return and don’t need to wait for the next dividend period.

However, every month, I create a small list about interesting high yielding stocks with ex-dividend date for the next month. I think it could bring you some values to see what companies pay you cash next month with an attractive equity story.

As result, I found 72 stocks with an average dividend yield of 7.89 percent. Ten stocks have a double-digit yield and 28 a high yield below 10 percent but over 5 percent. 32 stocks from the results have a buy or better recommendation.

High Yields From The S&P 500 And Which Are Highly Recommended

High Yields from the S&P 500 and the best buy ratings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". It’s good to have stocks with dividends. Dividends give you a passive income and improve your quality of life. Some of you don’t have enough money to live off dividends and they try to close the gap by choosing only High-Yields.

The higher the yield of a stock, the less capital you need for an acceptable return. But High-Yields often have the problem that they are not sustainable, especially when the market capitalization is low and the debt high.

We’ve seen this problem with Pitney Bowes, a very popular Dividend Aristocrat who yielded for months over 10 percent until they decided to reduce the dividend distributions by a half. For sure, they still pay a good dividend but your passive income is now significant lower.

Today I like to show you the highest yielding stocks from the S&P 500 with their current ratings. Only 13 companies survived the strong market gain since the beginning of the year. Last year, the number of High-Yields within the popular index was over 20!

Below the top results are many telecom service companies as well as electric utilities. Five of the results have a current buy or better rating.

8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

Most sold short utility dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to look at the most shorted dividend stocks from the utility sector. I observed only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million and a float short ratio over 5 percent.

Only eight companies have a capital stake with more than 5 percent of short sellers. Utilities are very unpopular in terms of borrowing shares and selling them with hope to cause a stock crash.

I often told that one of the characteristics of a utility stock is the stability. But the price you pay is the low growth and high debt. The capital intensive business model doesn’t allow it to expand the balance sheet without capital increases.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 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 June 06, 2013. In total, 35 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.97%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	5.16B	-	1.21	1.11	5.21%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.75B	18.17	5.23	3.24	5.15%
PPL Corporation	PPL	17.31B	12.75	1.65	1.63	4.95%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	7.00B	15.07	1.57	1.60	4.03%
TELUS Corporation	TU	11.29B	8.88	1.41	1.05	3.81%
Ensco plc	ESV	14.11B	11.22	1.17	3.19	3.30%
Occidental Petroleum Corp.	OXY	75.94B	17.23	1.86	3.18	2.72%
CME Group Inc.	CME	23.10B	26.60	1.07	8.08	2.60%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	31.55B	12.72	1.23	1.23	2.39%
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.	BAH	2.43B	12.30	11.50	0.42	2.24%
First American Financial Corp.	FAF	2.51B	8.28	1.05	0.53	2.07%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	23.26B	9.12	0.96	0.36	1.94%
Lancaster Colony Corporation	LANC	2.27B	20.74	4.71	1.94	1.92%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.44B	18.28	4.01	1.87	1.86%
CBS Corporation	CBS	30.13B	18.46	3.21	2.12	0.98%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	2.74B	17.61	0.55	0.63	0.97%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.15B	16.45	2.11	1.97	0.94%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.99B	29.58	3.77	5.34	0.79%