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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Half-Time Report: The Best Performing Technology Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Technology dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to continue my monthly screen serial with technology stocks. I screened the technology capital sector by dividend stocks with the highest year-to-date stock performance.

The 20 most successful companies have realized a performance between 192.46 percent and 48.71 percent. You could make real money if you have had the right technology ideas but the risk is also very high. Most of the results are small Caps with a market capitalization below USD 1 billion. The average capital gain was 79.15 percent. Despite the strong stock price hike, eleven of them still have a buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 16, 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 16, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Seaspan Corp.	SSW	1.45B	28.52	1.15	2.19	5.48%
Giant Interactive Group	GA	1.92B	11.96	3.73	5.47	5.24%
Select Medical Holdings	SEM	1.15B	8.22	1.55	0.39	4.87%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	4.02B	17.22	1.58	1.17	3.15%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.32B	6.15	0.78	0.96	2.75%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	37.56B	17.77	1.49	1.85	2.74%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	1.99B	11.62	4.27	1.30	2.56%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	62.28B	20.45	4.63	1.65	2.07%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.20B	15.31	2.14	0.51	2.01%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.33B	16.91	2.91	1.81	1.66%
Hanesbrands Inc.	HBI	5.01B	16.61	5.28	1.11	1.57%
Bunge Limited	BG	10.61B	28.75	0.93	0.17	1.50%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	3.50B	16.34	2.35	2.49	1.46%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.86B	21.44	32.53	5.28	1.20%
Watts Water Technologies	WTS	1.66B	23.55	1.77	1.15	1.11%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.54B	17.91	2.38	1.35	0.87%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.00B	29.63	7.74	1.69	0.70%

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