Industrial Dividend Stocks With Highest Performance And Still Cheap Price Ratios

Industrial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Warren Buffett likes industrials, not as much as consumer or healthcare stocks, but he owns a few players from the sector. I personally own some good names from the Dividend Champions list and be happy that I have purchased them a few years before.

Today I would like to screen the investment sector by the best performing dividend stocks since the beginning of the year. Below is a detailed view on cheapest results.

The 20 industrial dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance generated a return between 37.67 percent and 129.11. Small and mid-cap stocks are the performance driver of the year. 13 of the results have a market capitalization below USD 2 billion.

The whole sector is up 13.8 percent over the recent six month, the third best value on the capital market. I believe that stocks with a good stock performance are healthy. Capital investors are confident about the future prospects of the company and they like to pay a higher price to participate on the future of the business.

Not all of the best performing stocks are now expensive. 13 of the results have a low forward P/E and 10 are currently recommended to buy.

17 High Yields With Additional Potential To Grow Dividends

High yielding stocks with low payout and debt ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Yesterday, I made a screen of Dividend Contenders with low long-term debt to equity ratios as well as slim payouts.

Today I like to widen the latest screen to High-Yields with a market capitalization over USD 300 million. Most of the high yielding stocks are full of debt. The only companies with a smaller amount of loans are such with a lower capitalization. The risks are much higher for those shares. I also needed to lower my screening guidance because of the small amount of results. These are my new criteria:

- Market Capitalization over USD 300 million

- Dividend Yield over 5 percent

- Long-term debt to equity above 0.6

- Payout ratio under 50 percent

Now, twelve stocks fulfill these criteria. Six of the results have a current buy or better rating.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 14, 2012

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.

In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.61%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Apollo Investment Corporation	AINV	1.68B	7.31	0.98	4.06	9.69%
Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.	NM	378.99M	13.21	0.36	0.58	6.49%
Covanta Holding Corporation	CVA	2.43B	41.00	2.49	1.48	3.25%
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated	HBAN	5.35B	9.47	0.92	2.76	2.56%
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings	AWH	2.84B	4.26	0.83	1.27	1.86%
Altra Holdings, Inc.	AIMC	548.56M	15.34	2.27	0.76	1.18%
Primoris Services Corporation	PRIM	754.41M	14.39	2.39	0.53	0.82%
First M&F Corp.	FMFC	61.87M	14.91	0.53	0.97	0.60%
Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund Inc.	CUBA	28.10M	-	0.96	53.87	-