20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

Most sold short services dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The services sector is a big part of the economy and the financial markets. Roughly 850 companies have a relationship to the sector – That’s around 13.3 percent of the overall market by number of constituents.

Today I like to show you which services dividend stocks are most hated within the financial industry. Investors hate such stocks by selling them short. They believe in a falling stock price and want to profit from it.

My screen includes only mid- and large capitalized companies with a float short ratio of more than 5 percent.

The 20 most hated stocks have a float short ratio between 8.79 and 29.31 percent. Gamestop is the most sold company. Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 21, 2012

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 December 21, 2012. In total, 4 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Portland General Electric Company	POR	2.08B	14.68	1.21	1.14	3.91%
Ituran Location & Control	ITRN	310.64M	12.60	3.67	2.08	3.63%
Alexander's Inc.	ALX	2.33B	40.31	6.50	11.25	3.28%
Sotheby's	BID	2.29B	20.70	2.41	3.00	1.19%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between December 17 - 23, 2012

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks between December 17 - 23, 2012. In total, 63 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 27 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.64%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	6.45B	17.85	1.21	1.61	4.11%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	2.53B	30.83	1.75	1.30	4.11%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	10.42B	15.25	1.41	1.20	4.10%
Portland General Electric Company	POR	2.05B	14.44	1.19	1.13	3.98%
Alexander's Inc.	ALX	2.23B	38.50	6.21	10.75	3.44%
American Water Works Company	AWK	6.62B	17.42	1.49	2.35	2.67%
Equity Residential	EQR	17.85B	89.50	2.80	8.27	2.43%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO	3.86B	20.30	4.48	1.76	2.26%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	7.36B	17.93	3.00	1.97	2.20%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	3.64B	18.32	7.17	1.43	2.19%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	38.18B	26.96	4.21	3.60	2.16%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	19.94B	11.05	1.25	1.47	2.15%
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.	AEO	4.07B	18.53	3.17	1.20	2.14%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO	4.90B	27.80	5.62	2.18	1.96%
International Game Technology	IGT	3.84B	16.59	3.21	1.79	1.94%
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Cla	ARCO	2.62B	22.32	3.74	0.70	1.91%
Jefferies Group, Inc.	JEF	3.68B	16.02	1.09	0.99	1.66%
Sotheby's	BID	2.21B	19.99	2.32	2.90	1.23%
Coventry Health Care Inc.	CVH	5.98B	13.89	1.29	0.43	1.12%
Eagle Materials Inc.	EXP	2.73B	57.49	5.05	4.88	0.72%

13 Of The Best Dividend Paying Services Stocks (Strong Growing Stocks With Low Debt)

Best Services Dividend Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Stocks from the services sector are important for a consumer based economy like the United States Economy. At the capital markets are 899 stocks available with a relationship to service. The whole market capitalization of them amounts to USD 50.88 trillion. The average dividend yield has a value of 1.84 percent and the P/E ratio is 20.14.

In order to find the best dividend paying large cap growth stocks from the investment class, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent and an operating margin over 15 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.5. Finally, the market capitalization should be above USD 2 billion. Thirteen services stocks remained of which eleven are currently recommended to buy.