10 Large Cap Dividend Stocks Close To New 52-Week Highs And A Single P/E Multiple

Cheaply valuated dividend stocks close to new 52-Week-Highs originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The markets are at all time highs and the valuations is getting more and more expensive, measured by earnings multiples. Not all stocks are highly priced. Out there are still a lot of opportunities with a single P/E multiple.

Today I would like to show you those stocks that are close to new 52-Week-Highs and having a single earnings multiple at the same time. In order to reduce the results, I observed only companies with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion.

Ten stocksfulfilled my criteria of a very low P/E and a stock price up to 3 percent below new highs. All ten have a current buy or better rating.

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14 Large Caps Dividend Stocks Close To New 52-Week Highs

Large capitalized dividend stocks near 52-Week Highs originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The markets are bullish and stocks move up. It’s getting hard to find real bargains or low valuated high-quality dividend stocks. The good thing is that in a bullish market, you can make money with different kind of stocks. Everything goes up and the main reason behind the expansive monetary policy.

Today I like to discover some large caps that are on the jump to reach new 52-Week Highs (up to 10 percent) or to hit All-Time-Highs. Only 14 companies are on the edge to touch new highs. That’s a small number compared to the strong market.

I love it when stocks make a home run. It seems that nobody can stop them but take care about the valuation. Some stocks have a P/E over 20! It could be dangerous to buy highly priced assets. Below the results are five with a yield over three percent. Ten have a buy or better recommendation.

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Next Week's 20 Best 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 May 20-26, 2013. In total, 85 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 25 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.15%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	215.19B	15.66	1.23	3.80	6.23%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	17.58B	12.79	0.86	1.01	4.84%
Eni SpA	E	88.96B	30.99	1.11	0.54	4.58%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.61B	16.67	1.71	2.18	3.77%
CA Technologies	CA	12.55B	13.98	2.31	2.68	3.61%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	16.16B	20.52	5.30	2.49	3.08%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	247.44B	24.00	3.69	3.61	3.00%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	232.20B	12.65	1.30	0.65	2.98%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.14B	18.52	1.15	1.76	2.86%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.21B	19.25	1.20	1.83	2.75%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	17.95B	-	2.51	2.22	2.67%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.75B	8.73	1.66	1.02	2.53%
The McGraw-Hill Companies	MHP	15.27B	23.60	14.85	3.32	2.01%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	22.47B	7.25	1.26	0.16	1.94%
Hershey Co.	HSY	20.16B	29.16	18.13	2.99	1.86%
Deutsche Bank AG	DB	49.39B	193.80	0.62	1.18	1.40%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.68B	15.27	2.19	2.36	1.20%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.43B	23.77	-	1.08	1.19%
China Unicom (Hong Kong)	CHU	35.05B	27.52	1.02	0.83	1.14%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.43B	33.82	4.51	2.73	0.92%

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20 Cheapest Financial Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks from the financial sector with very low forward P/E ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividends are great, not only because you get cash in your pockets. It’s also a symbol for the ability of a company to share its profits with the shareholder of the company.

Dividends are good but they are better when the company is cheaply priced. This month, I started a screen serial of the cheapest stocks from several major sectors. Today, I observe financial stocks with a large market capitalization (over USD 10 billion) and a positive dividend yield.

The top 20 results are valuated between 6.9 and 9.6 of expected earnings. Despite the financial recovery and the ongoing crises, nearly all of the results have an expected five year earnings growth close to the 10 percent mark.
Two of the results have a high yield and 18 are currently recommended to buy or even better.

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