15 High Yields With The Lowest Dividend Payout Ratios

High Yields with dividend payouts of less than 50 percent and room to boost future dividends originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. If you have only small amounts of money available for investing, you need a higher yield. I do know this problem but I always remember that higher dividend yields are also equally with a higher risk.

Today I would like to screen all higher yielding stocks with a dividend yield over 5 percent and a market capitalization above the 2 billion mark by its payout ratios. I’m hunting for opportunities that pay less than 50 percent of its earnings. I believe that there should be more room for a small dividend hike if earnings are not cyclic and grow over the time.

Fifteen high yielding stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eleven are currently recommended to buy.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 25, 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, 44 stocks go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Healthcare Trust of America	HTA	2.47B	274.00	1.86	8.09	5.29%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.51B	18.43	1.54	0.76	4.87%
Canadian Imperial Bank of Comm.	CM	32.40B	10.17	2.08	2.82	4.59%
Staples, Inc.	SPLS	9.64B	-	1.60	0.40	3.25%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	15.91B	38.37	2.11	0.86	2.95%
Sempra Energy	SRE	21.44B	22.12	2.00	2.05	2.86%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	12.30B	14.55	2.06	2.91	2.86%
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc.	ELS	2.93B	35.97	3.97	4.10	2.84%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.07B	13.83	1.98	0.48	2.28%
ProAssurance Corporation	PRA	2.85B	8.81	1.22	3.87	2.17%
Protective Life Corp.	PL	3.35B	11.09	0.87	0.92	1.90%
Weight Watchers International	WTW	2.11B	8.85	-	1.18	1.86%
Axiall Corporation	AXLL	2.66B	12.61	1.10	0.68	1.68%
Stantec Inc.	STN	2.44B	19.46	3.18	1.49	1.21%
Regal Beloit Corporation	RBC	3.06B	16.14	1.53	0.99	1.17%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	21.97B	32.05	4.03	3.81	1.08%
Ralph Lauren Corporation	RL	14.98B	20.86	3.98	2.14	0.97%
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.	ZMH	14.17B	20.67	2.41	3.14	0.95%
Flowserve Corp.	FLS	8.89B	20.17	5.18	1.84	0.90%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	21.63B	40.17	5.72	1.68	0.69%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 25, 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 25, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
James Hardie Industries SE	JHX	3.88B	84.60	209.48	2.94	8.41%
Healthcare Trust of America	HTA	2.39B	-	1.80	7.82	5.27%
Cypress Semiconductor	CY	1.53B	-	9.71	2.02	4.20%
Getty Realty Corp.	GTY	677.63M	49.49	1.80	6.89	3.94%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	143.96B	16.79	-	1.85	3.89%
Covanta Holding Corporation	CVA	2.57B	25.38	2.69	1.58	3.33%
Glen Burnie Bancorp	GLBZ	34.24M	13.90	1.03	2.22	3.20%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	11.66B	12.91	1.94	2.80	3.01%
ProAssurance Corporation	PRA	3.17B	9.55	1.34	4.33	1.95%
International Flavors & Fragrances	IFF	6.23B	23.94	4.77	2.19	1.78%
Embraer SA	ERJ	6.70B	24.58	2.05	1.10	0.22%

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