Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratios

Consumer goods dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Consumer goods stocks are often the most preferred source for dividend growth investors. I don’t know why but the consumer sector has the largest amount of stocks with a solid dividend history. They are less volatile and work with good margins. For sure, the growth perspectives are not a good as for technology stocks and the debt is also everything else than slim but they are still attractive.

Today I like to close my monthly article serial about dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. Here are the links from the serial:

· 20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Industrials With Highest Bets On A Falling Stock Price

· 20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

· 20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks

· 8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Technology Dividend Stocks, Most Shorted By Investors

· 13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Today I like to look at the consumer goods stocks and excluded stocks with a market capitalization below 300 million as well as stocks without dividends.

My top 20 stocks have a float short ratio between 8.21 percent and 28.92 percent. The highest short selling stock is Pitney Bowes. The company is followed by the auto parts seller Monro Muffler Brake.

Despite the huge number of pessimistic investors, analysts recommended 13 of the results.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 08, 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 08, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.42%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	142.97B	159.03	4.25	1.23	4.18%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.61B	14.55	3.39	0.80	3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.27B	15.95	1.70	0.95	3.83%
E-House (China) Holdings	EJ	507.25M	-	0.69	1.19	3.50%
CH Energy Group Inc.	CHG	978.23M	25.34	1.89	1.06	3.40%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.60B	18.09	4.50	1.85	3.10%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	3.64B	18.91	7.15	3.10	2.63%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	20.63B	17.66	3.14	1.73	2.45%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	6.95B	19.66	2.51	1.89	2.37%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.67B	30.11	1.62	1.27	2.34%
Spreadtrum Communications	SPRD	921.67M	10.14	2.49	1.29	1.89%
Gap Inc.	GPS	17.05B	15.73	6.09	1.09	1.64%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	147.91M	11.16	1.60	3.03	1.49%
American Tower Corporation	AMT	31.05B	49.11	8.69	10.80	1.32%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.15B	22.06	5.22	2.79	1.32%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	915.44M	16.96	2.81	1.24	1.13%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	19.18B	28.63	6.87	4.58	1.05%
InterDigital, Inc.	IDCC	1.81B	6.86	3.48	2.73	0.91%
FEI Company	FEIC	2.44B	22.57	2.90	2.73	0.51%

9 Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

Dividend Stocks From The Consumer Sector With Highest Short Float Ratio Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The consumer sector is a major part of the economy with cyclic and non-cyclic roots.

At the stock markets are 407 companies linked to the sector with a total market capitalization of USD 144.8 trillion. The average sector yield amounts to 2.71 percent and the average P/E ratio is 21.81. The highest dividend paying industries are Cigarettes and Toys & Games.

I screened the sector by dividend stocks with the highest amount of short selling stocks, measured by the float short ratio. The ratio shows how many stocks are shorted by investors. Companies with a high ratio of float short have a little upside potential if investors need to close their short position. Nine dividend stocks from the consumer goods sector have a float short ratio of more than 15 percent.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (April 16 – April 22, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 42 stocks and funds raised dividends of which fifteen have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 20.10 percent. Fourteen stocks have a yield over five percent and all nineteen are currently recommended to buy.