20 Financials With The Highest YTD-Performance And Which Are The Cheapest Stocks

Financial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to discover the financial sector by the best performing dividend stocks. Financial companies are in focus of main street investors.

We live in a span of a financial bubble and financial services stocks, banks as well as insurer are the main provider for the financial system. Not all of them benefited from the money easing by the fed but in some cases you can see a definitely increase in the company’s balance sheet. The risks rose and yields went down over the recent years. Today, we need much more money to receive the same capital income as 10 years before.

I personally do not own banks or insurer. I still have no opinion or idea about how they could reduce their risk exposure in the financial market. They are real black boxes for me.

However, the 20 best performing financial dividend stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million gained 54.50 percent to 97.22 percent since the beginning of the year. Nine of the results still have a buy or better recommendation.

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 March 20, 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 March 20, 2013. In total, 17 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.24%.

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Investment Corporation	PNNT	435.00M	9.24	1.16	3.64	9.33%
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd.	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.28%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	201.19B	14.75	1.15	3.55	6.62%
Aviva plc	AV	4.45B	20.72	0.68	0.84	6.47%
SmartPros Ltd.	SPRO	7.11M	-	0.65	0.44	3.97%
LS Starrett Co.	SCX	64.90M	-	0.57	0.26	3.73%
Nicholas Financial Inc.	NICK	159.75M	7.57	1.29	2.28	3.64%
EarthLink Inc.	ELNK	567.81M	78.71	0.79	0.42	3.63%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	8.09B	15.79	26.46	4.41	2.85%
JMP Group Inc.	JMP	147.96M	54.58	1.17	1.03	2.14%
Hawkins Inc.	HWKN	414.06M	25.46	2.44	1.20	1.73%
Convergys Corporation	CVG	1.80B	67.96	1.35	0.90	1.41%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	1.95B	14.58	2.01	1.81	1.04%
Computer Task Group Inc.	CTGX	425.33M	26.05	4.14	1.02	0.88%
Financial Engines, Inc.	FNGN	1.67B	94.14	6.34	9.01	0.57%
World Fuel Services Corp.	INT	2.84B	14.88	1.87	0.07	0.38%
Advance Auto Parts Inc.	AAP	5.94B	15.46	4.89	0.96	0.30%