16 Cheap And High-Yielding Stocks From The S&P 500

S&P 500 stocks with low earnings multiples and high dividends originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I remember times when the popular S&P 500 index had more than 15 constituents of High-Yields. Today we only got seven!

Yes, market getting more and more expensive. The S&P 500 is up 22.85 percent this year and marked All-Time-Highs. In times when P/E’s of 20+ are the new valuation standard, it’s more important to keep an eye on cheaply priced stocks.

That’s the main reason why I would like to produce a screen from the mainstream index S&P 500 by the cheapest and highest yielding stocks measured with a forward P/E of less than 15 and a dividend yield over 4 percent.

Only sixteen corporate stocks fulfilled these criteria of which five have a buy or better rating. Utilities are the dominating investment category.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 06, 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 August 06, 2013. In total, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Navios Maritime Partners L.P.	NMM	1.02B	9.82	1.54	4.90	11.70%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.15B	12.67	1.32	1.13	4.87%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.33B	13.38	1.21	0.48	3.93%
Computer Programs & Systems	CPSI	638.87M	20.30	10.30	3.26	3.54%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.96B	16.41	5.53	3.16	3.27%
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	308.77M	43.50	1.03	3.63	2.81%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.	BHLB	656.15M	15.22	0.97	3.36	2.72%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	876.03M	23.14	1.56	4.09	2.47%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	737.58M	15.13	1.35	4.79	2.42%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	4.31B	-	0.95	0.57	2.11%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	2.20B	19.36	1.89	1.49	2.08%
Discover Financial Services	DFS	25.00B	9.97	2.53	3.36	1.56%
Cardinal Financial Corp.	CFNL	502.66M	11.23	1.59	4.56	1.46%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	55.65B	35.52	9.69	3.85	1.13%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.13B	27.29	1.49	0.59	1.13%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.95B	29.10	7.22	8.88	0.98%
Wintrust Financial Corporation	WTFC	1.56B	16.27	0.94	2.50	0.86%
Franklin Electric Co. Inc.	FELE	1.84B	23.41	3.36	1.98	0.81%
Arkansas Best Corporation	ABFS	583.52M	73.42	1.30	0.27	0.53%

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap 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 August 05 - 11, 2013. In total, 120 stocks go ex dividend - of which 42 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.37%.

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	15.94B	24.13	1.23	1.07	5.77%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.14B	10.46	1.32	1.15	4.87%
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	126.76B	21.23	12.86	3.12	4.21%
American Electric Power Co.	AEP	22.65B	18.71	1.46	1.49	4.21%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	15.46B	17.81	8.48	3.11	3.97%
Intel Corporation	INTC	115.59B	12.55	2.15	2.21	3.88%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	13.75B	17.02	7.37	2.81	3.86%
BT Group plc	BT	40.79B	13.73	43.36	1.48	3.73%
Seagate Technology PLC	STX	15.21B	8.54	4.34	1.06	3.70%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	12.59B	27.63	8.33	7.36	3.66%
Unilever NV	UN	115.09B	18.87	6.75	1.69	3.45%
Spectra Energy Corp.	SE	24.08B	24.99	2.69	4.70	3.39%
Unilever plc	UL	117.39B	19.25	6.89	1.72	3.38%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	22.56B	12.47	4.46	3.48	3.00%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	236.01B	12.06	1.59	4.99	2.70%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	424.90B	11.55	3.44	2.51	2.64%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	25.57B	14.93	1.32	3.79	2.53%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	259.95B	15.53	3.70	0.55	2.39%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	55.72B	23.96	0.86	0.80	2.17%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	12.29B	24.87	3.98	5.68	2.15%

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