Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratios

Consumer goods dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Consumer goods stocks are often the most preferred source for dividend growth investors. I don’t know why but the consumer sector has the largest amount of stocks with a solid dividend history. They are less volatile and work with good margins. For sure, the growth perspectives are not a good as for technology stocks and the debt is also everything else than slim but they are still attractive.

Today I like to close my monthly article serial about dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. Here are the links from the serial:

· 20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Industrials With Highest Bets On A Falling Stock Price

· 20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

· 20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks

· 8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Technology Dividend Stocks, Most Shorted By Investors

· 13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Today I like to look at the consumer goods stocks and excluded stocks with a market capitalization below 300 million as well as stocks without dividends.

My top 20 stocks have a float short ratio between 8.21 percent and 28.92 percent. The highest short selling stock is Pitney Bowes. The company is followed by the auto parts seller Monro Muffler Brake.

Despite the huge number of pessimistic investors, analysts recommended 13 of the results.

Next Week's Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between June 17 - 23, 2013. In total, 58 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 31 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.94%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Total SA	TOT	119.07B	10.08	1.17	0.50	5.47%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.90B	32.48	2.09	2.29	4.91%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	14.63B	15.01	1.59	1.42	3.81%
Iron Mountain Inc.	IRM	5.52B	37.09	4.95	1.84	3.73%
Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Inc.	PNY	2.58B	19.08	2.25	2.21	3.63%
Portland General Electric	POR	2.33B	16.54	1.33	1.29	3.57%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.55B	15.50	1.30	1.79	3.53%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	3.12B	33.46	2.16	1.55	3.34%
Safeway Inc.	SWY	5.87B	9.98	1.96	0.13	3.28%
Greif, Inc.	GEF	2.54B	20.08	1.90	0.60	3.13%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.26B	23.37	9.83	1.64	3.08%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-B	5.70B	26.01	3.08	2.30	3.07%
Pinnacle Foods Inc.	PF	2.81B	40.90	2.29	1.14	2.89%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.90B	47.87	5.27	11.14	2.76%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	15.58B	20.70	2.88	2.26	2.68%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	46.56B	29.24	6.36	3.99	2.48%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	22.37B	13.66	1.40	1.63	2.04%
International Game Technology	IGT	4.49B	16.75	3.68	1.96	1.86%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	9.63B	23.08	3.63	2.49	1.80%
Total System Services, Inc.	TSS	4.39B	18.05	3.03	2.34	1.71%

20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

Raw Material dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Basic Material stocks were the worst performing stock category within the recent six month. The sector had a performance of -0.7 percent while the S&P 500 increased 15.27 percent.

The fear of an economic slowdown mainly caused by China’s slowing growth is the main reason behind.

Investors can benefit from a falling stock price via short selling. Today I like to look at the basic material dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion.

The top 20 results have a float short ratio between 6 percent and 32.62 percent. Eight of the results still have a current buy or better rating.

Best Ex-Dividend Paying Stocks For Monday June 17, 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 17, 2013. In total, 8 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.63%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Gladstone Land Corporation	LAND	107.29M	74.68	1.82	31.65	8.76%
Gladstone Investment	GAIN	194.63M	10.97	0.81	6.37	8.16%
Gladstone Commercial Corp.	GOOD	219.46M	-	1.80	4.12	7.81%
Navios Maritime Acquisition	NNA	322.70M	-	0.83	2.14	5.71%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.59B	15.58	1.31	1.80	3.51%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.28B	23.45	9.86	1.64	3.07%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	15.67B	20.82	2.90	2.27	2.67%
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc.	SLCA	1.15B	14.82	4.60	2.50	2.30%

Bruce Berkowitz Biggest Dividend Stock Buys

The latest dividend stock buys from Bruce Berkowitz and his biggest portfolio holdings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Bruce Berkowitz is a successful asset manager. He manages around USD 7.9 billion in assets in his management company Fairholme Capital Management. Within the recent quarter, Bruce had only 21 stocks of which 3 are new.

Today I like to show you the top stock holdings from Bruce Berkowitz as well as his latest and most influential dividend stock buys.

His biggest acquisition was Chesapeake Energy. The company was completely new in his portfolio and had an impact of 3.5 percent. The current yield of CHK is 1.66 percent. Only seven of his 20 biggest stock acquisitions pay dividends. Berkowitz is no classical dividend investors. He loves the financial sector. Around 64.3 percent of his portfolio stock holdings have a relationship to financials.