The Best Performing Utilities And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Utility dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Utilities are often high dividend payers but they also have high debt amounts and their growth abilities are very limited.

Normally, you should not expect higher capital gains due to the slow growth and high investment costs.

It’s surprising that the best performing utilities gained 18 percent to 80 percent within the first six months of the year. I my view, it’s a shift to quality business models with higher yields and stable returns. Investors look for investment alternatives outside the bond sector and utilities are a place to be for the time being.

You can find a small list of the 20 best performing utility dividend stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below 300 million. They are definitely too risky and some of them have an extraordinary high return. Lower valuated companies dominating the top results. The average market capitalization amounts to 3.6 billion.

Despite the large price increase of the stocks, twelve of them still have a buy or better rating.

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20 Dividend Champions With Highest YTD Performance And Still Low P/E’s

Dividend Champions with highest performance year-to-date originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Around 104 stocks from the American capital market have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years without a break. They are real dividend champions. Today I like to show you which of them have realized the highest performance since the start of the year. You can also find a detail stock picture of the Dividend Champions with the cheapest price-to-earnings ratio.

The top 20 performing dividend Champions had a return between 20.16 percent and 37.25 percent. It’s a very mixed picture of stocks.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 15, 2013. In total, 53 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.22%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Veolia Environnement S.A.	VE	7.10B	679.50	0.75	0.19	5.74%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	226.27B	8.63	1.26	0.49	4.82%
AGL Resources Inc.	GAS	5.11B	17.29	1.45	1.21	4.35%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	50.63B	21.68	1.24	2.31	4.26%
Sonoco Products Co.	SON	3.59B	18.10	2.35	0.76	3.49%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	238.14B	9.29	1.70	1.00	3.26%
Black Hills Corporation	BKH	2.16B	22.32	1.71	1.82	3.12%
Apartment Investment & Management	AIV	4.70B	-	5.29	4.53	2.98%
Linear Technology Corp.	LLTC	8.83B	22.01	9.23	6.87	2.75%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	15.14B	21.82	1.85	3.53	2.64%
L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.	LLL	7.56B	10.11	1.37	0.57	2.62%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	55.81B	51.71	9.62	11.21	2.56%
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers	RBA	2.16B	27.41	3.31	4.94	2.42%
BOK Financial Corporation	BOKF	4.46B	12.47	1.47	5.70	2.34%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	87.29B	17.55	3.32	1.46	2.25%
Aqua America Inc.	WTR	4.50B	22.66	3.17	5.81	2.19%
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.	ALSN	4.34B	9.00	3.09	2.17	2.05%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	11.17B	22.20	2.15	1.89	2.00%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	12.02B	13.71	1.31	0.42	1.99%
Whirlpool Corp.	WHR	10.08B	18.18	2.25	0.56	1.96%

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