8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

Most sold short utility dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to look at the most shorted dividend stocks from the utility sector. I observed only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million and a float short ratio over 5 percent.

Only eight companies have a capital stake with more than 5 percent of short sellers. Utilities are very unpopular in terms of borrowing shares and selling them with hope to cause a stock crash.

I often told that one of the characteristics of a utility stock is the stability. But the price you pay is the low growth and high debt. The capital intensive business model doesn’t allow it to expand the balance sheet without capital increases.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 10, 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 June 10, 2013. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	793.73M	11.95	1.88	8.29	7.50%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	8.30B	-	1.30	1.25	4.68%
Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania	UVSP	306.76M	14.70	1.08	3.85	4.35%
Newmont Mining Corp.	NEM	17.21B	10.79	1.24	1.84	4.01%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	1.20B	-	1.38	4.84	3.44%
Public Storage	PSA	26.45B	38.19	3.03	14.24	3.25%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.40B	12.11	1.89	0.59	2.73%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.65B	15.00	2.45	1.00	2.56%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.71B	5.38	1.55	0.49	2.51%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	47.14B	-	2.00	0.41	2.39%
PS Business Parks Inc.	PSB	1.82B	76.48	1.17	5.20	2.35%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	759.75M	23.44	0.99	0.66	2.13%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.67B	21.68	2.99	1.28	2.01%
Amerisafe, Inc.	AMSF	622.13M	21.97	1.60	1.89	0.95%
OfficeMax Incorporated	OMX	1.11B	2.41	1.02	0.16	0.63%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	12.35B	21.71	4.94	2.81	0.54%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	43.58B	63.43	2.07	3.14	0.41%

The Safest Dividend Aristocrats - 20 Potential Stocks To Beat The Down Going Market

Dividend Aristocrats with lowest beta ratios from the index originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

Dividend Aristocrats are wonderful income growth stocks. They have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 consecutive years and they are selected by the credit rating agency to be a constituent of the popular S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index.

Exactly 54 companies are part of the index but some of them are very volatile. They have a bigger risk and you can discover this by the beta ratio. Just in times of a weak and down going market, it’s good to have stocks with a very low beta ratio.

Below is a list of the 20 Dividend Aristocrats with the lowest beta ratio of the index. The ratios are between 0.16 and 0.64. Every stock on the list has a performance which represents roughly 20 to 60 percent of the overall market. In a falling market you will have a performance advantage.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 07, 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 June 07, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.99%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	87.49B	8.74	1.02	0.19	5.73%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.48B	16.70	1.67	1.39	3.61%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	19.36B	-	1.44	9.60	2.88%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	9.20B	-	3.14	0.19	2.51%
Firstbank Corporation	FBMI	109.16M	11.69	0.82	1.74	1.77%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	4.19B	-	0.87	1.60	1.55%
Scorpio Tankers Inc.	STNG	1.44B	-	0.65	10.97	1.13%
Ross Stores Inc.	ROST	14.06B	17.38	7.51	1.42	1.06%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.47B	11.59	1.25	0.92	1.00%
GAMCO Investors, Inc.	GBL	1.42B	19.48	4.02	4.06	0.36%
Gardner Denver Inc.	GDI	3.70B	14.65	2.53	1.64	0.27%
UniFirst Corp.	UNF	1.88B	17.49	1.96	1.44	0.16%

20 Technology Dividend Stocks, Most Shorted By Investors

Technology dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Activists often sell stocks short. In the second step, they try to scary other investors in order to get the stock price down and to make some profits.

Today I like to show you which of the technology stocks have the highest float short ratio. The ratio shows you how many shares have been sold short. It’s ever interesting to see which companies have some problems and investors like to speculate on a falling stock price. The higher the ratio is, the bigger the problems of the company.

These are my criteria:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Technology Sector Relationship

- Float Short Ratio over 5 percent

- Market Capitalization above 2 Billion

20 technology dividend stocks have fulfilled these criteria. I recognized that technology stocks with a high float short are also highly priced but I don’t think that it’s the only reason for the short sale. Companies like Nokia have a tough fight to compete with companies like Apple or Samsung within the smart phone market. The market speculates that Nokia will fail to gain market shares.