20 Financials With The Highest YTD-Performance And Which Are The Cheapest Stocks

Financial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to discover the financial sector by the best performing dividend stocks. Financial companies are in focus of main street investors.

We live in a span of a financial bubble and financial services stocks, banks as well as insurer are the main provider for the financial system. Not all of them benefited from the money easing by the fed but in some cases you can see a definitely increase in the company’s balance sheet. The risks rose and yields went down over the recent years. Today, we need much more money to receive the same capital income as 10 years before.

I personally do not own banks or insurer. I still have no opinion or idea about how they could reduce their risk exposure in the financial market. They are real black boxes for me.

However, the 20 best performing financial dividend stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million gained 54.50 percent to 97.22 percent since the beginning of the year. Nine of the results still have a buy or better recommendation.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 18, 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 March 18, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Capital Agency Corp.	AGNC	13.16B	7.53	1.03	6.24	15.06%
American Capital Mortgage Investment	MTGE	1.55B	3.13	1.02	10.63	13.73%
Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.	NM	452.28M	2.94	0.38	0.73	5.48%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.22B	25.36	2.63	12.94	4.67%
Electro Rent Corp.	ELRC	431.04M	19.31	1.95	1.71	4.45%
CTC Media, Inc	CTCM	1.91B	605.00	2.75	2.46	4.30%
Ramco-Gershenson Properties	RPT	822.39M	402.50	1.47	6.39	4.16%
EastGroup Properties Inc.	EGP	1.73B	64.38	3.57	9.31	3.66%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.70B	18.35	1.41	1.87	3.46%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.24B	22.90	9.10	1.64	3.16%
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation	CPK	476.91M	17.82	1.90	1.23	2.94%
Cott Corporation	COT	915.55M	19.20	1.50	0.41	2.40%
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.	HPP	1.28B	-	1.50	8.12	2.21%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	8.76B	21.32	3.57	2.34	1.85%
Noah Holdings Limited	NOAH	429.73M	21.28	2.57	5.65	1.57%
Activision Blizzard, Inc.	ATVI	16.74B	14.88	1.48	3.45	1.26%