13 Highest Dividend Paying Diversified Utilities

Highest dividend paying diversified utilities originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". A safe and high income is a dream from most of us. For sure, safe and high incomes without any kind of risk are impossible but out there are still some sectors and industries with companies which have a high possibility to fulfill these items. Let me mention one thing: Safe dividends do not exist and a safe dividend is no growing dividend. If your income does not grow over the long-run, you will get poorer and poorer due to the inflation pressure.

Not enough, if your company does not hike prices and grow it will lose earnings and must cut dividends in the future. Growth is the key and not safe dividends. Today I like to scout the utility sector by the highest dividend paying opportunities. The sector is one of the smallest branched ones because of its five sub industries. I will focus on the diversified utility industry today which has already 24 stocks listed. The industry is the highest dividend paying industry (4.64 percent average yield) from the utility sector and also the biggest branch with a total market capitalization of $11.41 trillion.

Nearly all 22 companies from the diversified utility industry pay dividends. Linked is a small table with some fundamentals of the highest dividend paying stocks with a market capitalization of more than USD 2 billion. It’s always good to have a bigger stock with a diversified business model.

Thirteen diversified utilities fulfilled my criteria of which five have a current buy or better rating.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 29, 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 29, 2012. In total, 44 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.05%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Atlantic Power Corporation	AT	5.12B	5.59	2.16	0.59	7.90%
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc.	OHI	2.57B	25.42	2.73	8.09	7.45%
Copano Energy LLC	CPNO	2.31B	-	2.63	1.69	7.21%
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.	EPB	8.06B	18.05	3.88	5.42	6.30%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP	KMP	29.79B	18.55	2.73	3.66	5.87%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	5.63B	17.87	4.12	5.05	5.77%
National Retail Properties, Inc.	NNN	3.47B	33.79	1.55	11.45	4.92%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	48.63B	19.74	3.91	1.11	4.81%
Kinder Morgan, Inc.	KMI	36.35B	29.46	2.81	4.12	4.11%
Brookfield Office Properties	BOXC	2.73B	-	3.41	5.61	4.08%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	4.94B	17.38	1.53	1.47	4.05%
Western Gas Partners LP	WES	5.00B	33.22	3.08	6.46	3.83%
NiSource Inc.	NI	7.28B	23.22	1.43	1.38	3.76%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	11.54B	18.75	2.52	0.85	3.53%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	32.01B	20.53	2.87	2.40	2.99%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	3.23B	16.68	5.86	2.70	2.85%
AO Smith Corp.	AOS	2.74B	18.23	2.30	1.45	1.35%
Morgan Stanley	MS	33.89B	-	0.55	1.10	1.17%

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth In May 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy and they want to give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

In total, 35 companies announced a dividend growth of more than 10 percent within the recent month. The average dividend yield of the fastest dividend growth stocks from last month amounts to 3.33 percent and the dividend growth is 46.11 percent.