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.

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap 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 April 29 - May 03, 2013. In total, 81 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 34 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.59%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	19.44B	25.26	1.49	1.27	4.73%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	40.54B	10.55	1.43	3.08	4.63%
Barclays PLC	BCS	58.27B	-	0.68	1.72	4.58%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	12.48B	14.78	6.79	2.54	4.36%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	14.56B	16.70	7.74	2.95	4.26%
Southern Company	SO	41.76B	17.96	2.15	2.53	4.09%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	19.15B	23.74	2.88	0.51	4.04%
Intel Corporation	INTC	115.85B	11.70	2.26	2.19	3.85%
ABB Ltd.	ABB	53.01B	19.41	3.11	1.35	3.14%
Ford Motor Co.	F	53.71B	9.63	3.38	0.40	2.93%
Credit Suisse Group	CS	43.76B	32.30	0.97	1.85	2.74%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	66.94B	11.87	1.91	1.62	2.51%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	73.29B	13.22	2.10	2.98	2.12%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	10.73B	18.43	2.43	4.05	1.84%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	25.49B	13.39	1.94	2.52	1.67%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.68B	34.12	8.95	4.63	1.62%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.60B	19.13	1.10	1.16	1.60%
Petroleo Brasileiro	PBR-A	126.10B	12.16	0.75	0.91	1.24%
Fomento Econ	FMX	40.97B	266.28	36.82	2.97	1.22%
The AES Corporation	AES	10.05B	-	2.20	0.55	1.19%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 29, 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 April 29, 2013. In total, 38 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	5.44B	-	6.18	20.57	6.22%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.46B	18.26	0.86	4.36	4.87%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	40.42B	10.52	1.43	3.07	4.64%
Realty Income Corp.	O	8.86B	65.14	2.74	18.63	4.38%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	3.97B	40.13	4.34	0.98	4.06%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.68B	17.36	1.68	2.02	3.59%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.18B	18.88	4.09	1.51	3.35%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	10.79B	18.54	2.45	4.07	1.83%
City National Corp.	CYN	3.07B	14.79	1.20	3.45	1.75%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.63B	19.15	1.10	1.16	1.60%
Burger King Worldwide, Inc.	BKW	6.33B	54.73	5.39	3.22	1.33%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	9.04B	12.60	0.88	1.07	1.29%
First Republic Bank	FRC	4.89B	12.85	1.41	3.76	1.27%
The AES Corporation	AES	10.04B	-	2.20	0.55	1.19%
Brown & Brown Inc.	BRO	4.41B	22.88	2.37	3.58	1.17%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.26B	20.59	3.87	0.31	1.12%
Aon Corporation	AON	18.95B	20.50	2.46	1.65	1.03%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.77B	36.26	3.92	3.64	0.82%

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