Bank Stocks With Big Dividend Yields

When savvy investors hunt for great dividend stocks, one of the first things they look at is the dividend yield, which expresses a stock's annual dividend payout as a percentage of its stock price.

One of the reasons investors are often drawn to bank stocks is because they tend to pay generous dividends. But just like any other industry, some banks stocks are more generous than others when it comes to their quarterly payouts.

Which are the best from the perspective of an income-seeking investor on the hunt for a high yield? You can find the answer in the table below.

With this in mind, I drew up the table below, which ranks the nation's biggest banks by dividend yield.

Here are higher capitalized bank/money center stocks with dividend yields above 3 percent....

16 Cheap Latin America Stocks With Good Dividends

Large capitalized stocks from Latin America with low forward P/E’s and good dividend yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

Yesterday I published a small list of the best yielding Asian dividend stocks with a low forward price to earnings ratio. Today I like to change the country and go forward with the Latin America region. 

It’s a hopeful region to seek for growth. If you have no idea where to find good yields in your own country, you should start to look aboard. But be careful, foreign stocks have higher risks because of the additional currency risk and the small diversified companies.

My criteria are still:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Forward P/E below 15

Sixteen stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which eight have a current buy or better recommendation.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares Between April 22 - 26, 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between April 22 - 26, 2013. In total, 48 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 24 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.73%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Telecom Italia SpA	TI-A	12.74B	-	0.51	0.33	13.33%
CPFL Energia S.A.	CPL	10.30B	16.60	2.97	1.35	6.03%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	55.38B	22.42	4.18	1.30	4.34%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	86.55B	11.90	1.93	4.18	4.14%
Banco Santander-Chile	BSAC	12.71B	15.86	2.90	3.19	3.30%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	37.84B	22.68	3.46	2.95	3.27%
The Clorox Company	CLX	11.72B	20.92	213.17	2.09	2.86%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	15.03B	28.62	2.99	1.05	2.77%
Telecom Italia SpA	TI	14.84B	-	0.58	0.38	2.75%
The Bank of New York Mellon	BK	31.35B	13.23	0.86	8.94	2.22%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	14.60B	-	2.84	1.39	2.04%
Syngenta AG	SYT	38.70B	20.42	4.36	2.73	2.03%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	10.36B	-	1.63	2.35	1.83%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	41.49B	22.69	3.05	0.82	1.68%
Anheuser-Busch InBev	BUD	159.44B	22.30	3.86	4.01	1.32%
The ADT Corporation	ADT	10.18B	25.64	1.94	3.14	1.14%
ASML Holding NV	ASML	29.54B	15.72	4.27	4.76	0.83%
BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.	BRFS	20.97B	51.15	2.83	1.45	0.77%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 22, 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 April 19, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.54%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Telecom Italia SpA	TI-A	12.56B	-	0.50	0.33	13.52%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	1.18B	13.09	2.07	3.07	6.82%
CPFL Energia S.A.	CPL	10.18B	16.40	2.93	1.33	6.10%
Banco Santander-Chile	BSAC	12.67B	15.82	2.89	3.18	3.31%
The Clorox Company	CLX	11.63B	20.76	211.52	2.08	2.88%
Telecom Italia SpA	TI	14.91B	-	0.58	0.38	2.74%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	40.62B	22.21	2.99	0.80	1.71%
The ADT Corporation	ADT	10.14B	25.53	1.93	3.13	1.15%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.35B	18.15	4.35	1.38	0.91%
BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.	BRFS	20.69B	50.45	2.80	1.43	0.78%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	7.16B	11.21	2.05	1.64	0.43%

17 Safest Stocks From The Financial Sector

Financial stocks with low beta ratios and high market capitalization originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The financial sector is still under fire. Low interest rates and higher risks within the bond buying industry make it hard to earn money on investments. As a result, thousands of people lose their job and the sector is shrinking. Bank of America cut its workforce by over 30,000 people and their competitors follow.

Not everything is bad within the financial sector. If you have followed my screens over the past months, you could find there more and more good looking banks and asset managers as well as insurers.

Today I like to discover the best yielding dividend stocks from the financial sector with real safe heaven characteristics. My criteria are:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Beta ratio below 1

The stock should have a lower volatility than the overall market. For sure, these are not the only trigger ratios to seek out the highest degree of stability for a stock. Especially in the financial sector are more risks than in other industries. Banks are still black boxes because you never know what kind of risk exposure they have in detail.

The screen produced 17 stocks of which two have a double-digit yield. Eight of them are currently recommended to buy.