20 Top Yielding Electic Utilites With Sustainable Dividend Payouts For Growth

Well-managed electric utilities are excellent candidates for a dividend reinvestment portfolio. Typically, electric utilities generate lots of excess cash and pay it out as dividends to shareholders.

But not all utilities are equal. Some pay high amounts of their net income to shareholders in form of dividends, other only a small part. Be very wary of stocks with high dividend yields and high payout ratios. They are not sustainable and increase the debt level of the company over the long-term.

I'm looking for those utilities with low dividend payouts in order to get sustainable dividend payments over years that might grow, year over year for decades.

Attached you can find a detailed list of 20 electric utilities that might give investors a small hedge due to a solid dividend growth history and sustainable dividend payouts.

These are the 4 top yielding results in detail...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 25, 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.

In total, 44 stocks go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Healthcare Trust of America	HTA	2.47B	274.00	1.86	8.09	5.29%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.51B	18.43	1.54	0.76	4.87%
Canadian Imperial Bank of Comm.	CM	32.40B	10.17	2.08	2.82	4.59%
Staples, Inc.	SPLS	9.64B	-	1.60	0.40	3.25%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	15.91B	38.37	2.11	0.86	2.95%
Sempra Energy	SRE	21.44B	22.12	2.00	2.05	2.86%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	12.30B	14.55	2.06	2.91	2.86%
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc.	ELS	2.93B	35.97	3.97	4.10	2.84%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.07B	13.83	1.98	0.48	2.28%
ProAssurance Corporation	PRA	2.85B	8.81	1.22	3.87	2.17%
Protective Life Corp.	PL	3.35B	11.09	0.87	0.92	1.90%
Weight Watchers International	WTW	2.11B	8.85	-	1.18	1.86%
Axiall Corporation	AXLL	2.66B	12.61	1.10	0.68	1.68%
Stantec Inc.	STN	2.44B	19.46	3.18	1.49	1.21%
Regal Beloit Corporation	RBC	3.06B	16.14	1.53	0.99	1.17%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	21.97B	32.05	4.03	3.81	1.08%
Ralph Lauren Corporation	RL	14.98B	20.86	3.98	2.14	0.97%
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.	ZMH	14.17B	20.67	2.41	3.14	0.95%
Flowserve Corp.	FLS	8.89B	20.17	5.18	1.84	0.90%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	21.63B	40.17	5.72	1.68	0.69%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 19, 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 19, 2013. In total, 45 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	9.28	1.55	9.88	6.39%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	88.48B	15.60	2.19	2.77	6.11%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.58B	18.92	1.59	0.78	4.75%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.76B	63.56	3.97	4.59	3.60%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.42B	19.23	1.77	3.29	2.80%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	2.95B	50.20	1.18	0.64	2.61%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.36B	16.22	2.68	0.61	2.49%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.90B	15.26	2.03	0.95	2.42%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	22.76B	7.18	1.90	0.25	2.38%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.09B	8.39	2.05	1.10	2.32%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.92B	33.06	2.17	1.14	2.30%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.60B	15.61	1.29	1.50	2.19%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.12B	8.64	0.87	3.56	1.88%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	13.20B	14.43	1.44	0.47	1.79%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	3.15B	11.10	2.70	1.20	1.67%
Littelfuse Inc.	LFUS	1.75B	23.40	2.81	2.54	1.12%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	849.54M	7.94	1.55	1.38	0.87%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	497.07M	-	1.40	0.62	0.57%