Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest YTD Performance And Which Are Still Cheap

Basic material dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material stock category were the real losing sector this year. Stocks from the sector are down 2.6 percent this year while the best performing sector, healthcare stocks, gained 24.3 percent.

But not all basic materials are loser. There are stocks that doubled its price since the beginning of this year. Others are up 50 percent. Below, you can find a small list of the 20 top basic material stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 300 million and those without a dividend.

The 20 top dividend paying results gained from 44.58 percent to 65.14 percent. Three of the results have a market cap below a billion and additional seven are valuated between one or two billion. Small and mid-cap stocks are the main performance driver of the sector. Despite the strong stock price hikes, fourteen companies still have a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 30, 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 30, 2013. In total, 49 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.21%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Realty Income Corp.	O	9.57B	68.72	1.70	17.90	4.45%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	34.52B	12.43	114.63	0.74	4.27%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.	AEM	4.94B	19.19	1.43	2.65	3.08%
Kellogg Company	K	23.80B	25.58	8.42	1.63	2.72%
The Wendy's Company	WEN	2.40B	-	1.22	0.96	2.62%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	11.15B	15.14	1.15	1.21	2.42%
Associated Banc-Corp	ASBC	2.60B	14.93	0.89	3.65	2.06%
Polaris Industries, Inc.	PII	6.40B	20.16	8.73	1.95	1.80%
ITC Holdings Corp.	ITC	4.66B	24.25	3.20	5.47	1.70%
ManpowerGroup	MAN	4.43B	25.22	1.77	0.22	1.60%
Expeditors International of Washington	EXPD	8.18B	24.74	3.89	1.37	1.52%
Hillshire Brands Company	HSH	4.36B	55.31	10.32	1.09	1.41%
Nike Inc.	NKE	56.55B	25.11	5.30	2.25	1.33%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	2.58B	9.46	1.70	0.59	1.32%
Hartford Financial Services Group	HIG	13.96B	-	0.64	0.50	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	33.27B	9.69	2.01	1.08	1.20%
Silgan Holdings Inc.	SLGN	3.03B	22.88	5.93	0.84	1.18%
Ball Corporation	BLL	6.62B	17.87	6.16	0.76	1.17%
Fluor Corporation	FLR	10.47B	22.95	3.00	0.37	1.00%
Lufkin Industries Inc.	LUFK	2.99B	33.19	3.64	2.27	0.57%