8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

Most sold short utility dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to look at the most shorted dividend stocks from the utility sector. I observed only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million and a float short ratio over 5 percent.

Only eight companies have a capital stake with more than 5 percent of short sellers. Utilities are very unpopular in terms of borrowing shares and selling them with hope to cause a stock crash.

I often told that one of the characteristics of a utility stock is the stability. But the price you pay is the low growth and high debt. The capital intensive business model doesn’t allow it to expand the balance sheet without capital increases.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 26, 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 April 26, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.47B	7.87	1.01	5.06	12.07%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.60B	24.77	1.78	8.07	5.69%
Chatham Lodging Trust	CLDT	321.71M	-	1.24	3.20	4.59%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	56.16B	22.74	4.24	1.32	4.35%
Northwest Natural Gas Company	NWN	1.22B	20.34	1.66	1.67	4.03%
Brookfield Office Properties Canada	BOXC	2.56B	-	3.00	4.88	3.96%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.81B	17.88	1.74	1.88	3.59%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	39.78B	23.85	3.64	3.10	3.11%
NiSource Inc.	NI	9.71B	22.40	1.74	1.92	3.08%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	14.79B	28.16	2.94	1.03	2.82%
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers	SKT	3.50B	66.12	7.22	9.79	2.43%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	4.72B	23.06	8.20	3.83	2.04%
Scholastic Corporation	SCHL	849.50M	12.50	1.00	0.43	1.88%
ASML Holding NV	ASML	30.18B	19.35	4.24	5.29	0.82%

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