20 Financials With The Highest YTD-Performance And Which Are The Cheapest Stocks

Financial dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to discover the financial sector by the best performing dividend stocks. Financial companies are in focus of main street investors.

We live in a span of a financial bubble and financial services stocks, banks as well as insurer are the main provider for the financial system. Not all of them benefited from the money easing by the fed but in some cases you can see a definitely increase in the company’s balance sheet. The risks rose and yields went down over the recent years. Today, we need much more money to receive the same capital income as 10 years before.

I personally do not own banks or insurer. I still have no opinion or idea about how they could reduce their risk exposure in the financial market. They are real black boxes for me.

However, the 20 best performing financial dividend stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million gained 54.50 percent to 97.22 percent since the beginning of the year. Nine of the results still have a buy or better recommendation.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 08, 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 08, 2013. In total, 49 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.65%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	125.59B	19.55	12.03	3.07	4.31%
American Electric Power Co.	AEP	24.53B	19.87	1.59	1.62	3.88%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	206.37B	20.37	2.57	3.58	3.34%
Unilever NV	UN	127.20B	21.16	6.07	1.89	3.29%
Macerich Co.	MAC	9.73B	35.76	3.16	11.04	3.28%
Unilever plc	UL	129.29B	21.51	6.24	1.92	3.24%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	200.45B	10.74	1.24	4.19	3.17%
RPC Inc.	RES	2.91B	12.46	3.19	1.56	3.03%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	21.81B	13.04	1.03	3.19	2.95%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	17.00B	34.88	4.00	2.26	2.58%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	259.54B	15.70	3.42	0.55	2.38%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.55B	10.82	0.76	1.11	1.87%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	13.70B	13.65	2.57	1.05	1.87%
PPG Industries Inc.	PPG	21.65B	20.34	4.52	1.46	1.61%
Reinsurance Group of America	RGA	4.65B	6.74	0.68	0.46	1.52%
Rollins Inc.	ROL	3.52B	31.68	9.67	2.75	1.50%
CONSOL Energy Inc.	CNX	8.09B	28.09	2.04	1.53	1.41%
The Charles Schwab Corporation	SCHW	22.46B	25.43	2.37	4.51	1.37%
Altera Corp.	ALTR	10.59B	19.24	3.07	5.94	1.21%
Dana Holding Corporation	DAN	2.58B	14.04	1.40	0.37	1.14%

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