Industrial Dividend Stocks With Highest Performance And Still Cheap Price Ratios

Industrial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Warren Buffett likes industrials, not as much as consumer or healthcare stocks, but he owns a few players from the sector. I personally own some good names from the Dividend Champions list and be happy that I have purchased them a few years before.

Today I would like to screen the investment sector by the best performing dividend stocks since the beginning of the year. Below is a detailed view on cheapest results.

The 20 industrial dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance generated a return between 37.67 percent and 129.11. Small and mid-cap stocks are the performance driver of the year. 13 of the results have a market capitalization below USD 2 billion.

The whole sector is up 13.8 percent over the recent six month, the third best value on the capital market. I believe that stocks with a good stock performance are healthy. Capital investors are confident about the future prospects of the company and they like to pay a higher price to participate on the future of the business.

Not all of the best performing stocks are now expensive. 13 of the results have a low forward P/E and 10 are currently recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 15, 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 July 15, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	137.34M	26.57	0.95	6.73	9.62%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	5.03B	34.49	1.74	7.30	5.72%
Bowl America Inc.	BWL-A	69.55M	43.55	2.30	2.87	4.74%
Bridge Bancorp, Inc.	BDGE	212.81M	16.44	1.75	3.88	3.78%
Saul Centers Inc.	BFS	961.17M	176.70	11.47	5.00	3.02%
Wayne Savings Bancshares	WAYN	28.97M	13.67	0.73	1.94	2.81%
McGrath Rentcorp	MGRC	872.60M	19.94	2.34	2.33	2.75%
Siliconware Precision Industries	SPIL	3.90B	26.42	1.96	1.86	2.68%
US Ecology, Inc.	ECOL	547.95M	20.63	4.64	3.06	2.41%
IDEX Corporation	IEX	4.76B	107.17	3.21	2.43	1.59%
Quaker Chemical Corporation	KWR	853.58M	17.65	2.91	1.21	1.52%
Zep, Inc.	ZEP	287.37M	14.83	1.59	0.42	1.23%
Alamo Group, Inc.	ALG	536.19M	18.53	1.72	0.85	0.63%
EOG Resources, Inc.	EOG	38.67B	52.78	2.81	3.16	0.52%

The Latest Big Dividend Stock Buys From James Barrow

James Barrow’s latest dividend stock buys and his portfolio originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

James Barrow is a relatively unknown fund managers but he has big influence on Wall-Street. His assets under management exceeded the 55 billion mark in his investment firm Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss. This money was spread on 159 stocks of which 7 were completely new. James follows a value-oriented investment strategy.

James is a real dividend large cap lover. Nearly all of his latest 20 big stock acquisitions pay dividends. In addition, James is a much diversified guy. None of his stakes is extremely overweighed. The biggest position is the tobacco company Philip Morris and has a portfolio share of 3.5 percent while the 10th biggest stock holding weights only at 1.8 percent.

Compared to other fund managers, his performance is also weak in the short term. Over the past three years, the excess return was only 3.3 percent in total. His five-year advance is a bit better with 14 percent excess gain but over 10 years, his performance is 27.8 percent weaker than the S&P 500. Over a very long period of 15 years, he beat the market by 49.4 percent excess gain.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 12, 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 July 12, 2013. In total, 4 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which none yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	19.25B	-	2.28	7.54	2.34%
First Citizens Banc Corp.	FCZA	54.37M	10.85	0.66	1.18	2.27%
WD-40 Company	WDFC	895.67M	23.17	4.85	2.53	2.16%
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.	APOG	731.93M	-	2.18	1.01	1.40%

20 Financials With The Highest YTD-Performance And Which Are The Cheapest Stocks

Financial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to discover the financial sector by the best performing dividend stocks. Financial companies are in focus of main street investors.

We live in a span of a financial bubble and financial services stocks, banks as well as insurer are the main provider for the financial system. Not all of them benefited from the money easing by the fed but in some cases you can see a definitely increase in the company’s balance sheet. The risks rose and yields went down over the recent years. Today, we need much more money to receive the same capital income as 10 years before.

I personally do not own banks or insurer. I still have no opinion or idea about how they could reduce their risk exposure in the financial market. They are real black boxes for me.

However, the 20 best performing financial dividend stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million gained 54.50 percent to 97.22 percent since the beginning of the year. Nine of the results still have a buy or better recommendation.