20 Best Yielding Profitable Growing Buyback Kings And My 8 Favorite Stocks

Today's screen discovers stocks with recent buyback announcements. I've compiled those stocks with a recent buyback program announcement.

Those buybacks are paid from a profitable operating business that is growing, not only in the past but should also go forward in the near future.

A consequence is that each of the attached stocks has a positive 5 years past sales performance, positive return on assets and positive expected 5 year EPS growth predictions as well.

Attached you will find the 20 best yielding results.

These are my personal favorites...

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 11, 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 11, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.70%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Summit Hotel Properties, Inc.	INN	606.07M	-	1.12	3.50	4.85%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.02B	-	1.68	4.53	4.27%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	16.72B	14.98	1.30	1.36	4.24%
Brookline Bancorp, Inc.	BRKL	634.22M	17.08	1.05	2.97	3.76%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	4.60B	169.50	2.56	9.16	3.64%
Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc.	SASR	493.97M	13.40	1.02	3.43	2.82%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	34.13B	17.71	5.20	5.10	2.38%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	65.39B	15.44	3.38	3.79	2.21%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	25.09B	12.12	1.45	0.18	1.77%
Provident Financial Holdings Inc.	PROV	189.64M	8.74	1.21	3.91	1.58%
Home Bancshares	HOMB	983.01M	15.68	1.91	5.55	1.49%
First Bancshares Inc.	FBMS	33.62M	9.32	0.51	1.28	1.39%
Carriage Services Inc.	CSV	265.67M	35.78	2.03	1.34	0.68%
Graham Corp.	GHM	233.07M	38.25	2.71	2.51	0.34%