The Best Portfolio of Consulting Stocks

Attached is a Portfolio of Consulting Stocks.

Finding the best industries is often the key to success in investing. Our research shows that the industries ranked in the top half outperform those in the bottom half by a factor of two to one, so putting your money to work in the best industries gives you a big advantage.

One space that should be on your radar right now is the consulting industry. Stocks within the consulting sector sit in the top 5% of all industries of all 265 industries.

Right now, the Consulting industry is ranked as the 13th best industry out of the 265 industries

The following table lists 11 consulting stocks....

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 10, 2012

The Best 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 10, 2012. In total, 20 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.81%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	3.08B	10.13	1.12	6.11	9.76%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	28.43B	9.83	1.93	1.46	4.93%
US Ecology, Inc.	ECOL	405.97M	18.94	3.85	2.63	3.25%
Methode Electronics Inc.	MEI	355.03M	33.03	1.42	0.75	2.92%
WPP plc	WPPGY	17.61B	12.51	1.59	1.06	2.90%
Accenture plc	ACN	49.21B	18.84	10.90	1.65	2.28%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.36B	16.29	2.46	0.92	2.03%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	30.51B	20.98	14.36	2.30	2.00%
Masco Corporation	MAS	5.56B	-	12.66	0.73	1.93%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	9.82B	13.46	2.75	2.31	1.90%
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.	OZRK	1.18B	16.06	2.56	5.83	1.64%
Pall Corp.	PLL	7.38B	26.99	4.88	2.76	1.55%
Bassett Furniture Industries Inc.	BSET	141.03M	13.63	0.93	0.55	1.54%
AZZ Incorporated	AZZ	922.30M	17.35	2.92	1.77	1.54%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	37.27B	28.04	1.71	7.05	1.17%
Pathfinder Bancorp Inc.	PBHC	27.12M	16.97	0.78	1.45	1.16%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	927.49M	29.14	4.11	1.15	1.07%
Oracle Corporation	ORCL	150.26B	15.44	3.48	4.07	0.77%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.09B	33.25	3.91	4.79	0.63%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	10.86B	24.14	3.18	3.76	0.50%

11 Services Dividend Stocks With Gaining Earnings Momentum

Services Dividend Stocks With Accelerated Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Service stocks are characterized by cyclic business models, low margins and partially high growth due to the business cyclic. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 46.3 trillion. The average company has a P/E ratio of 20.45 as well as a dividend yield of 1.83 percent.

In order to find some opportunities, I screened the sector by dividend stocks with an earnings growth of more than ten percent over the past five years. In order to catch up only those stocks with a gaining earnings momentum, I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than twenty percent. Exactly eleven companies fulfilled these criteria of which one is a high yield; nine are recommended to buy.