15 High Yielding Stocks Close To New 52-Week Highs

High Yield Large Caps quite below new 52-Week Highs originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I’m not a momentum trader who seeks the hottest investment opportunities over the short run. I am looking for high quality dividend paying stocks that hike cash payments to shareholders each year and plan to continue this for decades. For sure, there are not many corporate that can manage this need. Only 15 stocks or so have achieved to rise dividends year over year for more than 50 years.

I also look at stocks at new highs. I believe that it’s a good sign when the stock is near all time highs or close to new 52-Week Highs. Something must run well right and investors gift trust to the corporate. You should definitely care about a solid valuation and avoid it to buy stocks with higher P/E’s.

Today I would like to present you some higher capitalized High Yields that are a few percentage points below new 52-Week Highs. It should be possible that these stocks can hit new highs in the near future.

Only fifteen stocks with more than USD 2 billion market capitalization are traded close to new highs and twelve of them got a current buy or better rating by investment firms. Two companies have a double-digit dividend yield.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 03, 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.

In total, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.08%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.	VIV	22.35B	12.68	1.18	1.53	7.74%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.32B	-	1.10	2.99	6.33%
Cedar Fair, L.P.	FUN	2.36B	34.55	59.86	2.17	5.88%
Weingarten Realty Investors	WRI	3.55B	69.67	2.64	8.64	4.17%
CNOOC Ltd.	CEO	89.25B	8.28	1.66	2.04	3.71%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	48.27B	9.76	1.49	2.38	3.47%
Newmont Mining Corp.	NEM	15.82B	-	1.41	1.73	3.14%
Hancock Holding Co.	HBHC	2.72B	14.85	1.16	3.65	2.94%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	54.64B	9.64	1.69	2.16	2.84%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	12.11B	15.24	1.30	1.30	2.53%
Aqua America Inc.	WTR	4.38B	20.89	3.07	5.64	2.44%
The Home Depot, Inc.	HD	107.62B	22.14	6.96	1.38	2.08%
Bank of New York Mellon	BK	34.38B	18.53	1.00	10.20	2.01%
Owens Realty Mortgage, Inc.	ORM	3.04B	-	16.77	188.97	1.74%
Valhi, Inc.	VHI	6.82B	-	-	3.40	1.00%
Solera Holdings Inc.	SLH	3.64B	38.64	5.02	4.46	0.94%
Citigroup, Inc.	C	147.38B	15.49	0.77	2.26	0.08%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 03, 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 June 03, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.12%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
France Telecom	FTE	27.76B	27.58	0.88	0.49	14.31%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.14B	-	1.01	2.72	6.82%
Cedar Fair, L.P.	FUN	2.33B	23.28	14.65	2.18	5.97%
Ventas, Inc.	VTR	21.34B	57.31	2.33	8.20	3.68%
Hancock Holding Co.	HBHC	2.45B	13.77	0.99	3.25	3.32%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.38B	23.79	2.80	0.72	2.64%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	12.99B	31.22	1.94	1.27	2.44%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	110.89B	18.08	2.95	5.12	2.18%
Brown-Forman Corporation	BF-B	15.15B	26.27	9.97	5.43	1.97%
Flowers Foods, Inc.	FLO	4.65B	22.27	4.92	1.42	1.90%
Nielsen Holdings N.V.	NLSN	12.67B	43.45	2.45	2.24	1.89%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	99.46B	18.52	2.79	2.31	1.67%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	6.48B	7.41	0.95	1.29	1.48%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	3.04B	23.03	6.47	0.92	1.27%
Halliburton Company	HAL	39.73B	20.50	2.53	1.39	1.17%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.31B	27.98	1.50	0.60	1.12%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.41B	34.48	2.30	2.49	1.10%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	76.58B	10.96	1.84	2.62	0.59%

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