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.

12 Stocks and Funds With Recent Dividend Growth

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The summer season is going to reach its high and the list of dividend growers shrinks to new lows. Last week, only 9 companies and three funds announced a dividend hike. Only four of them have a current buy or better rating. The average dividend growth of the top dividend growers from last week amounts to 13.29 percent.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 04, 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 04, 2012. In total, 6 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.34%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Oneida Financial	ONFC	72.94M	11.27	0.80	3.15	4.48%
Universal	UVV	1.21B	15.86	1.03	0.50	3.78%
Glacier Bancorp	GBCI	1.11B	35.84	1.27	4.07	3.37%
Campbell Soup	CPB	11.12B	14.60	12.93	1.44	3.30%
Eaton Corporation	ETN	15.75B	11.16	1.98	0.97	3.26%
Kaman Corporation	KAMN	950.16M	19.54	2.38	0.62	1.78%