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 August 05, 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 05, 2013. In total, 36 stocks go ex dividend - of which 23 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.95%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners	PVR	2.51B	-	2.13	2.33	8.41%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.00B	3.91	1.86	1.28	7.63%
Inergy Midstream LLC	NRGM	2.11B	54.47	2.88	10.01	6.45%
New York Community Bancorp	NYCB	6.90B	14.01	1.21	3.97	6.37%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP	APL	2.49B	104.05	1.71	1.83	6.13%
Alliance Resource Partners LP	ARLP	2.78B	11.21	3.58	1.28	6.02%
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	15.99B	24.21	1.23	1.07	5.75%
DCP Midstream Partners LP	DPM	3.52B	21.55	2.45	1.83	5.18%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	7.99B	42.20	2.24	11.57	3.92%
Intel Corporation	INTC	115.49B	12.54	2.14	2.21	3.88%
Seagate Technology PLC	STX	15.46B	8.69	4.41	1.08	3.64%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	12.80B	28.10	8.47	7.48	3.59%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	22.21B	12.28	4.39	3.42	3.05%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	12.45B	25.21	4.03	5.75	2.12%
City National Corp.	CYN	3.84B	18.20	1.62	4.39	1.41%
The Cheesecake Factory	CAKE	2.28B	22.91	3.92	1.23	1.11%
Brown & Brown Inc.	BRO	4.75B	25.35	2.55	3.85	1.07%

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