8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

Most sold short utility dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to look at the most shorted dividend stocks from the utility sector. I observed only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million and a float short ratio over 5 percent.

Only eight companies have a capital stake with more than 5 percent of short sellers. Utilities are very unpopular in terms of borrowing shares and selling them with hope to cause a stock crash.

I often told that one of the characteristics of a utility stock is the stability. But the price you pay is the low growth and high debt. The capital intensive business model doesn’t allow it to expand the balance sheet without capital increases.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 20, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.79%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Park National Corp.	PRK	1.10B	16.73	1.69	3.98	5.25%
Eni SpA	E	88.27B	30.75	1.10	0.54	4.61%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.75B	19.55	1.72	0.82	4.43%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	3.26B	64.97	2.77	6.16	4.29%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	5.28B	-	3.69	10.63	3.21%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	9.11B	21.14	3.49	3.74	3.07%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.33B	8.58	1.63	1.00	2.58%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.48B	14.78	1.97	0.91	2.56%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	3.08B	28.28	1.24	0.63	2.52%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.84B	28.60	2.09	1.12	2.41%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	21.60B	6.97	1.21	0.16	2.02%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.64B	46.08	0.93	4.77	1.67%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.31B	19.35	2.60	1.42	1.64%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.53B	15.18	2.18	2.34	1.20%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	788.30M	7.47	1.44	1.36	0.94%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.83B	34.34	4.58	2.78	0.90%
Gerdau S.A.	GGB	11.47B	16.27	0.84	0.61	0.60%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 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 February 19, 2013. In total, 50 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	147.32M	13.40	0.94	5.91	8.96%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	218.62M	10.39	1.02	12.18	7.42%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	8.97	1.83	12.07	5.62%
Calamos Asset Management Inc.	CLMS	216.03M	12.04	1.10	0.66	4.72%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.70B	16.97	1.69	0.80	4.46%
Silicon Motion Technology Corp.	SIMO	463.82M	12.14	1.86	2.18	4.19%
CA Technologies	CA	11.42B	12.65	2.09	2.44	3.99%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.24B	52.96	3.74	4.86	3.80%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	234.62B	15.39	3.23	3.22	3.28%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	6.44B	13.27	1.71	0.78	2.97%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	12.15B	18.36	1.46	2.91	2.52%
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.	SCHN	821.57M	46.45	0.76	0.26	2.41%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	36.18B	17.12	1.44	1.78	2.11%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	3.83B	-	0.77	4.65	2.03%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.53B	10.98	0.72	1.11	1.91%
Resources Connection Inc.	RECN	520.70M	22.28	1.44	0.92	1.89%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	1.79B	18.07	1.54	1.07	1.67%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.	RCL	7.80B	445.87	0.94	1.02	1.35%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	4.47B	19.54	3.08	2.16	0.98%
Solera Holdings Inc.	SLH	3.89B	39.18	5.29	4.85	0.89%