The Most Recommended Consumer Goods Stocks | 20 Dividend Stocks With Highest Buy Rating

Most recommended consumer goods dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to screen one of my favorite investment sectors, the consumer goods sector. I want to show you who are the best, higher yielding dividend stocks with a buy or better rating.

Stocks from the sector have a total market capitalization of USD 197.4 trillion. The average P/E is 21.58 and the dividend yield amounts to 3.28 percent. The highest yielding industries are still business equipments and cigarettes.

Cigarettes and tobacco companies have the highest share in my private portfolio. They represent around 25 percent of my assets and they are also one of my biggest dividend contributors over the year.

However, 396 stocks are available for trading with a relation to the consumer sector. 185 of them pay dividends and 123 have a current buy or better rating. Below is a small list of the 20 higher capitalized companies (over USD 2 billion) with the highest buy rating. Most of the results are low yielding but the expected growth rates for the next years look fantastic. Dare a glance and let me know in the comment area which of the stocks you like most.

Best Ex Dividend Stock List For November 16, 2012

The Best Yielding And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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 ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 16, 2012. In total, 20 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ECA Marcellus Trust I	ECT	314.87M	8.05	1.11	7.88	13.39%
Intersections Inc.	INTX	161.82M	7.62	1.39	0.45	8.90%
Arbor Realty Trust Inc.	ABR	158.44M	-	0.67	1.46	8.68%
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	PFLT	-	-	-	-	8.02%
Telular Corp.	WRLS	164.46M	29.00	2.33	2.06	4.87%
CA Technologies	CA	10.10B	11.17	1.87	2.13	4.55%
Baldwin & Lyons Inc.	BWINB	332.94M	10.18	0.97	1.24	4.47%
Manulife Financial Corporation	MFC	21.71B	56.76	0.88	0.67	4.38%
Prudential Financial, Inc.	PRU	23.18B	18.99	0.61	0.46	3.20%
Alterra Capital Holdings Limited	ALTE	2.13B	9.99	0.73	1.29	2.89%
Bebe Stores, Inc.	BEBE	302.12M	44.75	0.84	0.58	2.79%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	46.97B	20.12	3.58	1.25	2.74%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.63B	22.15	1.87	1.01	2.70%
Symetra Financial Corporation	SYA	1.30B	7.37	0.38	0.63	2.57%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	4.80B	11.97	2.21	1.05	2.15%
Globe Specialty Metals, Inc.	GSM	1.01B	36.49	2.02	1.39	1.85%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	5.55B	20.76	3.27	3.99	1.75%
LeMaitre Vascular, Inc.	LMAT	94.45M	44.50	1.82	1.71	1.61%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	10.20B	16.57	32.91	4.01	1.40%
Brunswick Corporation	BC	2.18B	23.65	11.77	0.59	0.21%