29 Undervalued Dividend Stocks

Each company has a dividend yield of at least 3% and the ability to increase payouts.

With dividend stocks hot this year, some market experts are advising investors to be cautious and selective. 

Identifying companies with room to raise dividends significantly, rather than focusing on finding the highest yields, might be your best way forward.

So we decided to take a deep dive into the S&P 1500 Composite Index, the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index MID and the S&P Small-Cap 600 Index in order to identify possible dividend-stock bargains in every sector.

Here are all 29 stocks that passed the screen, broken down by sector:

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 13, 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 August 13, 2013. In total, 76 stocks go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company	RRD	3.49B	-	87.23	0.34	5.42%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.20B	-	1.87	6.68	4.87%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.17B	-	2.02	4.59	4.24%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.76B	23.16	1.27	1.07	3.97%
Shaw Communications	SJR	11.26B	15.38	2.99	2.27	3.95%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	2.96B	23.53	1.95	1.24	3.94%
American Campus Communities	ACC	3.89B	80.76	1.49	6.46	3.88%
ALLETE, Inc.	ALE	2.04B	19.06	1.63	2.03	3.68%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	58.53B	12.15	3.84	2.55	3.62%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	5.11B	-	-	0.79	3.06%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	55.12B	23.52	4.22	1.56	3.01%
Helmerich & Payne Inc.	HP	7.23B	10.34	1.68	2.16	2.95%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	34.71B	55.92	4.43	1.24	2.88%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	272.88B	12.63	3.46	3.51	2.81%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.29B	17.28	1.66	1.22	2.66%
International Paper Co.	IP	21.54B	21.93	3.21	0.75	2.50%
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.	CLF	3.73B	-	0.76	0.65	2.46%
LPL Investment Holdings Inc.	LPLA	4.19B	24.91	3.53	1.09	1.93%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.	IACI	4.21B	22.01	2.58	1.39	1.90%
Applied Industrial Technologies	AIT	2.17B	18.59	2.94	0.89	1.79%

Services Dividend Stocks With Highest Stock Performance - And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Services dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The more I discover the best performing stocks from the recent half year, the better the performance gets. 

Today I would like to discover stocks from the services sector with the highest year-to-date performance. The sector is the second best performer behind the healthcare segment but the performance is more unequal distributed: The best dividend stocks on the top 20 list have a price performance between 60 percent and 247 percent. Service is a place to be for investors.

In order to reduce some extraordinary companies and to get better results, I decided to exclude all stocks with a lower market capitalization (below USD 300 million). Small cap stocks have normally a higher performance ratio, also in this screen: More than half of the results have a market cap below a billion dollars. The average market cap of the top 20 stocks after my limit rule amounts to USD 2.6 billion.

Despite the strong stock price growth; twelve shares still have a buy or better rating. Broadcasting and TV companies are very hot and dominating the screening results. There is some rumor in the market about takeovers and mergers.

20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

Most sold short services dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The services sector is a big part of the economy and the financial markets. Roughly 850 companies have a relationship to the sector – That’s around 13.3 percent of the overall market by number of constituents.

Today I like to show you which services dividend stocks are most hated within the financial industry. Investors hate such stocks by selling them short. They believe in a falling stock price and want to profit from it.

My screen includes only mid- and large capitalized companies with a float short ratio of more than 5 percent.

The 20 most hated stocks have a float short ratio between 8.79 and 29.31 percent. Gamestop is the most sold company. Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 24, 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 April 24, 2013. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.30%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company	RRD	2.06B	-	39.24	0.20	9.14%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.89B	33.64	1.28	3.00	6.65%
Government Properties Income	GOV	1.43B	25.47	1.40	6.79	6.56%
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	1.23B	52.75	1.42	7.52	5.15%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.09B	20.49	3.89	1.26	2.38%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	14.35B	-	2.80	1.36	2.08%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	10.32B	-	1.62	2.34	1.84%
AptarGroup, Inc.	ATR	3.68B	23.30	2.65	1.58	1.80%
BankFinancial Corp.	BFIN	160.13M	-	0.93	2.64	0.53%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 23, 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 January 23, 2013. In total, 10 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.80%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company	RRD	1.71B	-	1.52	0.17	10.94%
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	762.66M	-	1.75	0.86	9.12%
Government Prop. Inc. Trust	GOV	1.38B	23.83	1.37	6.68	6.81%
Franklin Street Properties	FSP	1.08B	48.15	1.23	6.85	5.85%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	8.56B	34.95	1.97	3.19	5.59%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	4.37B	18.65	3.59	1.12	1.97%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	14.61B	-	2.90	1.40	1.91%
Progressive Corp.	PGR	13.74B	15.35	2.10	0.82	1.79%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	2.63B	25.47	2.84	0.79	1.31%
The Cooper Companies Inc.	COO	4.72B	19.24	2.15	3.27	0.06%