20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks And Which 11 Are Wrong

Financial dividend stocks with highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Financials are in focus of many investors because they have a great possibility to leverage profits and they benefit if the economy starts to grow. 

But the whole sector is also very vulnerable for systematic risks. Due to the concatenation of many firms, a bail in of one company can hurt the whole system deeply.

This is also one of the reasons why financial stocks are very popular targets for short sellers. If there develops a rumor, it ends in a bank run.

Today I like to show you which stocks from the financial sector (excluded by ETFs) have the highest float short ratio. My only restriction is a market capitalization of more than USD 300 million.

The 20 top results have a float short ratio between 11.56 and 28.67 percent. The Insuring industry is the biggest industry followed by REITs. Despite the negative view of the investors, eleven of the results have a current buy or better recommendation.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 21, 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 21, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	222.72M	17.28	1.06	10.56	7.29%
Tortoise Energy Capital Corp.	TYY	686.81M	10.42	-	185.62	4.88%
Avista Corp.	AVA	1.74B	21.09	1.36	1.11	4.19%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.65B	30.21	3.12	16.98	3.92%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.61B	17.25	1.71	2.20	3.77%
CA Technologies	CA	12.55B	13.38	2.28	2.70	3.61%
Southside Bancshares Inc.	SBSI	392.30M	12.02	1.53	3.56	3.46%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	16.16B	20.52	5.30	2.49	3.08%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	17.95B	748.00	2.51	2.22	2.67%
Silver Wheaton Corp.	SLW	7.72B	13.52	2.39	9.02	2.57%
NVIDIA Corporation	NVDA	9.19B	15.99	1.90	2.13	2.02%
Tessera Technologies Inc.	TSRA	1.08B	-	1.79	4.94	1.96%
Tim Hortons Inc.	THI	8.62B	22.42	6.81	2.84	1.83%
NICE Systems Ltd.	NICE	2.21B	29.07	1.84	2.47	1.75%
Spartan Motors Inc.	SPAR	198.86M	-	1.13	0.42	1.72%
China Unicom (Hong Kong)	CHU	35.05B	27.52	1.02	0.83	1.14%
Forward Air Corp.	FWRD	1.17B	21.74	2.99	1.99	1.03%
First Trust Multi-Asset Div Income	MDIV	-	-	-	-	0.65%
Zions Bancorp.	ZION	5.05B	20.75	0.79	2.52	0.58%

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