20 Cashflow Strong Stocks With 3.5% to 12.8% Dividend Yields And Potential To Hike

Investors love dividend stocks, even during times of turmoil. Some focus on current income, while others track the correlation between dividend increases and outperformance. 


Cash flow is a key issue in investing. It's in my view a better view on the earnings power of a company. Even better is the free cash flow, that's the amount of operating cash ex capital spending.

Those amounts of money could fully used for dividends, investment (Mergers, Acquisitions), share buybacks and more.

As a follow-up to our look at companies with high free cash flow that could be used to raise dividends, we decided to take a broader and simpler approach to list dividend stocks favored the most by analysts.

Analysts say a lot about stocks and often they are wrong with their opinion. Don't put too much trust in their work. The do the same as you, simple desk research and often your results will be better.

Here are the results...

20 Cashflow Strong Stocks (click to enlarge)
Source: Marketwatch, FactSet

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 11, 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 11, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.70%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Summit Hotel Properties, Inc.	INN	606.07M	-	1.12	3.50	4.85%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.02B	-	1.68	4.53	4.27%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	16.72B	14.98	1.30	1.36	4.24%
Brookline Bancorp, Inc.	BRKL	634.22M	17.08	1.05	2.97	3.76%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	4.60B	169.50	2.56	9.16	3.64%
Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc.	SASR	493.97M	13.40	1.02	3.43	2.82%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	34.13B	17.71	5.20	5.10	2.38%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	65.39B	15.44	3.38	3.79	2.21%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	25.09B	12.12	1.45	0.18	1.77%
Provident Financial Holdings Inc.	PROV	189.64M	8.74	1.21	3.91	1.58%
Home Bancshares	HOMB	983.01M	15.68	1.91	5.55	1.49%
First Bancshares Inc.	FBMS	33.62M	9.32	0.51	1.28	1.39%
Carriage Services Inc.	CSV	265.67M	35.78	2.03	1.34	0.68%
Graham Corp.	GHM	233.07M	38.25	2.71	2.51	0.34%

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 09, 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 November 09, 2012. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.97%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
SandRidge Mississippian Trust I	SDT	533.96M	-	1.94	-	14.33%
Sandridge Mississippian Trust II	SDR	970.73M	26.03	-	25.12	12.27%
Hercules Technology Growth Capital	HTGC	549.95M	12.53	1.10	7.07	9.23%
United Online, Inc.	UNTD	510.30M	13.73	1.04	0.59	7.10%
Summit Hotel Properties, Inc.	INN	356.70M	-	0.98	2.17	5.49%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	3.76B	-	1.45	3.28	4.87%
Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.	ROIC	647.42M	74.35	1.41	9.21	4.43%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	16.48B	15.58	1.31	1.32	4.30%
Wisconsin Energy Corp.	WEC	8.51B	15.32	2.04	1.98	3.25%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	23.66B	8.36	1.48	0.95	2.77%
Herbalife Ltd.	HLF	5.10B	12.18	13.74	1.31	2.54%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	2.74B	13.83	4.98	1.32	1.75%
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.	FDP	1.48B	11.13	0.81	0.43	1.57%
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)	HOMB	941.49M	15.76	1.85	5.42	1.56%
Brinks Co.	BCO	1.30B	13.69	2.67	0.33	1.47%
Buckeye Technologies Inc.	BKI	1.01B	9.51	1.60	1.18	1.41%
United States Steel Corp.	X	3.11B	-	0.81	0.16	0.93%
Cantel Medical Corp.	CMN	691.29M	22.36	2.50	1.79	0.43%