20 Financials With The Highest YTD-Performance And Which Are The Cheapest Stocks

Financial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to discover the financial sector by the best performing dividend stocks. Financial companies are in focus of main street investors.

We live in a span of a financial bubble and financial services stocks, banks as well as insurer are the main provider for the financial system. Not all of them benefited from the money easing by the fed but in some cases you can see a definitely increase in the company’s balance sheet. The risks rose and yields went down over the recent years. Today, we need much more money to receive the same capital income as 10 years before.

I personally do not own banks or insurer. I still have no opinion or idea about how they could reduce their risk exposure in the financial market. They are real black boxes for me.

However, the 20 best performing financial dividend stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million gained 54.50 percent to 97.22 percent since the beginning of the year. Nine of the results still have a buy or better recommendation.

Bruce Berkowitz Biggest Dividend Stock Buys

The latest dividend stock buys from Bruce Berkowitz and his biggest portfolio holdings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Bruce Berkowitz is a successful asset manager. He manages around USD 7.9 billion in assets in his management company Fairholme Capital Management. Within the recent quarter, Bruce had only 21 stocks of which 3 are new.

Today I like to show you the top stock holdings from Bruce Berkowitz as well as his latest and most influential dividend stock buys.

His biggest acquisition was Chesapeake Energy. The company was completely new in his portfolio and had an impact of 3.5 percent. The current yield of CHK is 1.66 percent. Only seven of his 20 biggest stock acquisitions pay dividends. Berkowitz is no classical dividend investors. He loves the financial sector. Around 64.3 percent of his portfolio stock holdings have a relationship to financials.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 20, 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 May 20, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.79%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Park National Corp.	PRK	1.10B	16.73	1.69	3.98	5.25%
Eni SpA	E	88.27B	30.75	1.10	0.54	4.61%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.75B	19.55	1.72	0.82	4.43%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	3.26B	64.97	2.77	6.16	4.29%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	5.28B	-	3.69	10.63	3.21%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	9.11B	21.14	3.49	3.74	3.07%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.33B	8.58	1.63	1.00	2.58%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.48B	14.78	1.97	0.91	2.56%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	3.08B	28.28	1.24	0.63	2.52%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.84B	28.60	2.09	1.12	2.41%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	21.60B	6.97	1.21	0.16	2.02%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.64B	46.08	0.93	4.77	1.67%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.31B	19.35	2.60	1.42	1.64%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.53B	15.18	2.18	2.34	1.20%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	788.30M	7.47	1.44	1.36	0.94%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.83B	34.34	4.58	2.78	0.90%
Gerdau S.A.	GGB	11.47B	16.27	0.84	0.61	0.60%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 19, 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 19, 2013. In total, 50 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	147.32M	13.40	0.94	5.91	8.96%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	218.62M	10.39	1.02	12.18	7.42%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	8.97	1.83	12.07	5.62%
Calamos Asset Management Inc.	CLMS	216.03M	12.04	1.10	0.66	4.72%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.70B	16.97	1.69	0.80	4.46%
Silicon Motion Technology Corp.	SIMO	463.82M	12.14	1.86	2.18	4.19%
CA Technologies	CA	11.42B	12.65	2.09	2.44	3.99%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.24B	52.96	3.74	4.86	3.80%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	234.62B	15.39	3.23	3.22	3.28%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	6.44B	13.27	1.71	0.78	2.97%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	12.15B	18.36	1.46	2.91	2.52%
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.	SCHN	821.57M	46.45	0.76	0.26	2.41%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	36.18B	17.12	1.44	1.78	2.11%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	3.83B	-	0.77	4.65	2.03%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.53B	10.98	0.72	1.11	1.91%
Resources Connection Inc.	RECN	520.70M	22.28	1.44	0.92	1.89%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	1.79B	18.07	1.54	1.07	1.67%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.	RCL	7.80B	445.87	0.94	1.02	1.35%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	4.47B	19.54	3.08	2.16	0.98%
Solera Holdings Inc.	SLH	3.89B	39.18	5.29	4.85	0.89%