20 Undervalued Dividend-Paying Stocks

If you are concerned that current valuations may cast a shadow over the future returns of equity-income strategies, you're not alone. There's no telling how long dividend stocks' recent run of outperformance will continue.

But there are plenty of reasons to think that investing in steady dividend-paying stocks, particularly high-quality stocks that are healthy enough to not only sustain but possibly even increase their dividend, won't go out of style completely. 

Investors still have need for income, and although interest rates are likely to rise, they are still very low by historical standards and are not expected to shoot up dramatically anytime soon.

To get a better sense of how over- or undervalued dividend-paying stocks are today, we run a screen with selection of dividend yield, P/E and growth and filtered those stocks with attractive ratios in most of the areas.

Here are the top results from our screen...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 August 06, 2013. In total, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.75%.

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	1.02B	9.82	1.54	4.90	11.70%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.15B	12.67	1.32	1.13	4.87%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.33B	13.38	1.21	0.48	3.93%
Computer Programs & Systems	CPSI	638.87M	20.30	10.30	3.26	3.54%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.96B	16.41	5.53	3.16	3.27%
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	308.77M	43.50	1.03	3.63	2.81%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.	BHLB	656.15M	15.22	0.97	3.36	2.72%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	876.03M	23.14	1.56	4.09	2.47%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	737.58M	15.13	1.35	4.79	2.42%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	4.31B	-	0.95	0.57	2.11%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	2.20B	19.36	1.89	1.49	2.08%
Discover Financial Services	DFS	25.00B	9.97	2.53	3.36	1.56%
Cardinal Financial Corp.	CFNL	502.66M	11.23	1.59	4.56	1.46%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	55.65B	35.52	9.69	3.85	1.13%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.13B	27.29	1.49	0.59	1.13%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.95B	29.10	7.22	8.88	0.98%
Wintrust Financial Corporation	WTFC	1.56B	16.27	0.94	2.50	0.86%
Franklin Electric Co. Inc.	FELE	1.84B	23.41	3.36	1.98	0.81%
Arkansas Best Corporation	ABFS	583.52M	73.42	1.30	0.27	0.53%

20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks And Which 11 Are Wrong

Financial dividend stocks with highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Financials are in focus of many investors because they have a great possibility to leverage profits and they benefit if the economy starts to grow. 

But the whole sector is also very vulnerable for systematic risks. Due to the concatenation of many firms, a bail in of one company can hurt the whole system deeply.

This is also one of the reasons why financial stocks are very popular targets for short sellers. If there develops a rumor, it ends in a bank run.

Today I like to show you which stocks from the financial sector (excluded by ETFs) have the highest float short ratio. My only restriction is a market capitalization of more than USD 300 million.

The 20 top results have a float short ratio between 11.56 and 28.67 percent. The Insuring industry is the biggest industry followed by REITs. Despite the negative view of the investors, eleven of the results have a current buy or better recommendation.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 06, 2013. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 20 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners	PVR	2.41B	-	1.90	2.40	8.72%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	9.01B	-	2.03	5.08	7.56%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP	APL	2.74B	38.67	1.52	2.20	6.38%
Inergy Midstream LLC	NRGM	2.19B	39.78	2.88	11.30	6.13%
Alliance Resource Partners LP	ARLP	2.76B	12.20	3.90	1.36	5.93%
DCP Midstream Partners LP	DPM	3.55B	21.05	2.83	2.06	5.70%
American Realty Capital Prp.	ARCP	2.50B	-	2.21	148.53	5.55%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.90B	5.18	2.60	1.63	5.27%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.32B	12.35	3.88	2.46	4.32%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	4.47B	36.89	1.94	7.35	4.28%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	11.81B	27.14	7.78	6.66	3.84%
Sanofi	SNY	140.50B	21.67	1.88	3.00	3.20%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	27.91B	14.48	5.86	4.19	2.42%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	10.31B	26.03	2.23	4.18	1.40%
Cheesecake Factory	CAKE	2.08B	20.86	3.52	1.13	1.22%
Waste Connections Inc.	WCN	4.61B	27.27	2.45	2.66	1.07%
UBS AG	UBS	67.98B	-	1.35	4.03	0.90%
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao	CBD	14.54B	27.54	3.39	0.57	0.33%