20 Highly Recommended Basic Material Stocks | Top Stock Buy List

Stocks from the basic material sector with highest buy ratings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

We all want to make profits from stock trading and we have a clear focus on dividends because the regular payments are a great cash source for new investments. Above that, the dividend payments hedge us against stock price losses.

Today I like to progress with my January serial “most recommended stocks” and I like to go forward with the basic material sector. Out there are around listed 600 companies linked to the basic material sector. The sector was last year the worst performing category with an increase of 4.6 percent and should have upside potential if our economic environment changes.

It looks that investors avoid cyclic stocks. But the basic material sector has more to offer. I talk about the possibility of high scalable profits. It all depends mainly on China and how fast the economy could recover. For the time being there are no greater sings for a gaining momentum.

However, below is a small list of the 20 most recommended basic material stocks with a higher capitalization (over USD 2 billion); fifteen of the best buy rated raw material companies pay dividends and four have a high yield (over five percent).

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Between October 22 - 28, 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 22 - 28, 2012. In total, 57 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida SA	PVD	2.41B	12.93	3.90	7.21	7.59%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.18B	-	4.75	2.24	7.39%
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.62B	21.77	2.28	6.71	7.17%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	8.14B	29.07	1.87	3.79	5.87%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	85.09B	12.12	1.92	4.00	4.12%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	180.71B	11.47	1.08	2.94	3.67%
The Clorox Company	CLX	9.75B	18.25	-	1.78	3.41%
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc.	SKT	3.02B	63.06	6.26	8.78	2.61%
Unum Group	UNM	5.74B	22.76	0.68	0.55	2.54%
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation	BK	29.15B	13.41	0.84	8.01	2.11%
Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd.	SLT	6.18B	8.35	0.73	0.79	2.09%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	4.20B	92.57	2.11	1.18	2.07%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	37.23B	21.62	2.54	0.73	1.96%
Fastenal Company	FAST	12.97B	31.71	7.80	4.22	1.92%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	4.65B	20.47	3.86	1.22	1.86%
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Cla	ARCO	3.11B	30.27	4.72	0.82	1.61%
The AES Corporation	AES	8.26B	19.03	1.35	0.47	1.45%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-A	4.03B	21.06	4.60	1.82	1.39%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-B	4.91B	25.84	5.63	2.23	1.25%
Western Refining Inc.	WNR	2.32B	18.64	2.29	0.24	1.25%

11 Basic Material Dividend Stocks Starting To Boom

Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Improved Earnings Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Basic material stocks are elementary for the economy. What they mine will be processed by downstream companies. The price of commodities leads to growth of the economy; stimulating or slowing down. Basic material stocks can only become to an unbeatable asset at high prices of raw materials.

In order to find some opportunities, I screened the sector by stocks with an earnings and sales growth of more than fifteen percent over the past five years. In order to catch up only those stocks with a gaining earnings momentum, I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than twenty-five percent. Exactly eleven companies fulfilled these criteria of which one is a high yield; nine are recommended to buy.