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.	NMM	880.23M	8.97	1.39	4.28	12.33%
Capital Product Partners L.P.	CPLP	603.11M	74.36	0.92	3.78	11.37%
First Potomac Realty Trust	FPO	689.45M	-	1.03	3.66	4.44%
American Electric Power	AEP	21.83B	15.10	1.43	1.48	4.18%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.45B	12.86	4.86	2.59	4.08%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	6.83B	19.82	2.13	1.10	3.96%
Oritani Financial Corp.	ORIT	688.41M	18.73	1.36	5.50	3.96%
Belo Corp.	BLC	801.73M	9.48	2.87	1.16	3.75%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.32B	16.35	4.94	0.47	3.57%
Cedar Realty Trust, Inc.	CDR	402.02M	-	0.64	2.88	3.57%
Unilever plc	UL	120.50B	19.14	5.58	1.72	3.21%
First Community Bancshares	FCBC	317.02M	11.86	0.90	2.89	3.04%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	21.36B	11.30	1.01	3.09	3.01%
Unilever NV	UN	119.33B	18.95	5.46	1.70	2.76%
RPC Inc.	RES	3.35B	12.01	3.73	1.72	2.62%
East West Bancorp, Inc.	EWBC	3.31B	12.55	1.39	3.15	2.54%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	1.89B	15.16	37.66	1.31	2.31%
Cousins Properties Inc.	CUZ	932.92M	-	1.57	5.86	2.01%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	13.80B	13.75	2.59	1.05	1.86%
Pall Corp.	PLL	7.54B	25.71	4.28	2.85	1.47%