My Best Financial Stock Picks For 2013 | Do Financial Stocks Recover?

Buy shares low, hold them and sell high. That’s a very easy and simple strategy but investing is much more than buying stocks and waiting until the price goes up. You have to select the best stocks by fundamentals, business model, market strength, price ratios and so on. Investing is hard work and your emotions shouldn’t be a part of your selection process. Do you lose money with a trade? Don’t care that’s part of the business of a stock trader. Take care that your single trade positions are not big in relation to your trading limits or margins. They should account for less than 1 percent of your net worth.

Today, I like to screen the financial sector by the best growth stock picks for 2013. The whole sector has too many stocks listed, around 2,868 - No wonder that we need a consolidation with the financial crisis. Stocks from the sector are totally valuated at 168.25 trillion. The average P/E amounts to 13.04 and the yield is 2.45. What do you think, are stocks from the financial sector cheap or right to buy now? Let me know in the comment box bellow.

These are my criteria:

- Forward P/E under 15

- Past 5Y Sales growth over 10 percent

- Earnings per share growth for the next five years over 10 percent

- Operating Margin over 10 percent

- Market Capitalization over 2 billion

Eleven stocks remain of which six have a current buy or better rating. Ten of the results pay dividends. I am not a big fan of financial stocks because I could not evaluate the risks of the banking assets. I like stocks from services stocks with financial relations like Thomson Reuters, Moodys or Nasdaq.

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The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Between October 08-14, 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks between October 08 - 14, 2012. In total, 89 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 36 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.10%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Banco Santander-Chile	SAN	76.81B	8.34	0.77	1.91	10.46%
Sasol	SSL	28.37B	9.33	1.74	1.39	4.94%
ConocoPhillips	COP	69.93B	11.12	1.52	1.08	4.58%
Freeport-McMoRan	FCX	38.45B	12.20	2.32	2.09	3.09%
WPP	WPPGY	17.78B	12.62	1.60	1.07	2.87%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	112.38B	23.17	4.59	2.85	2.85%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	18.92B	18.30	3.02	1.60	2.65%
PNC Financial Services Group	PNC	34.31B	13.39	0.93	3.28	2.47%
Accenture	ACN	49.01B	18.28	11.02	1.65	2.29%
General Growth Properties	GGP	18.16B	-	2.27	6.59	2.27%
Tyco International	TYC	12.97B	10.11	0.90	0.73	2.13%
Yum! Brands	YUM	30.09B	20.69	14.16	2.26	2.03%
Potash	POT	36.04B	14.56	4.10	4.33	2.00%
Chesapeake Energy	CHK	12.80B	6.33	0.73	1.02	1.82%
Phillips 66	PSX	28.85B	5.99	1.52	0.15	1.74%
Covidien	COV	29.02B	15.54	2.70	2.43	1.72%
Aetna	AET	13.92B	8.22	1.36	0.40	1.68%
Goldcorp	GG	37.47B	28.18	1.72	7.09	1.17%
Oracle	ORCL	151.27B	15.54	3.50	4.10	0.76%
Roper Industries	ROP	10.88B	24.18	3.19	3.77	0.49%

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Higher Capitalized Stocks With Double-Digit Yields Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Stocks with very high yields are attractive for dividend and income investors. If you own a stock with a double-digit yield, you should expect a quarter dividends of at least 2.5 percent.

I screened all stocks with a dividend yield over 10 percent. 126 stocks have such a high yield but most of the companies are low capitalized and they have not sustained dividends. In order to get only higher capitalized stocks, I selected those with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion. Seventeen companies remained of which eleven are recommended to buy.

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I screened stocks with double-digit yields and growth rates of more than 10 percent in earnings per share for the upcoming five years. Fifteen stocks remained of which nine are currently recommended to buy.

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I screened the capital markets by high yields stocks with a low payout ratio of less than 40 percent of the current total earnings per share. If the company doesn’t need much money to finance growth or repay debt, the dividends should be increased by the company in the mid-term. In order to eliminate such stocks with a low capitalization and trading volume, I decided to list only those stocks with a higher market capitalization of more than USD 2 billion. Twelve companies fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which three have a double-digit yield.