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.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 14, 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 14, 2013. In total, 29 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA	PT	4.71B	16.41	1.49	0.55	13.52%
Buckeye Partners LP	BPL	7.09B	28.93	2.78	1.63	6.18%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	102.55B	17.35	2.20	2.78	5.99%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.69B	270.18	2.34	8.32	4.04%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.91B	-	1.99	5.31	3.70%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.37B	24.96	2.37	1.34	3.43%
American Campus Communities	ACC	4.72B	78.95	1.79	8.57	3.00%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	273.00B	16.85	3.56	3.59	2.81%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	22.45B	18.12	1.18	0.25	2.23%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.40	1.33	1.50	1.98%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	25.13B	7.45	2.11	0.29	1.81%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	80.04B	18.06	4.10	4.59	1.76%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.25B	60.03	1.99	14.65	1.69%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	2.04B	19.20	1.74	1.21	1.48%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	36.73B	19.98	10.07	1.42	1.14%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	5.13B	18.75	3.38	2.44	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	14.09B	90.32	6.62	10.79	0.12%

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