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 August 30, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.21%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Six Flags Entertainment	SIX	3.23B	10.16	8.01	2.99	5.33%
Orchids Paper Products Company	TIS	216.68M	20.58	2.68	2.05	5.04%
Greenhill & Co., Inc.	GHL	1.46B	27.97	5.71	4.55	3.68%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.31B	23.19	3.12	1.91	3.35%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.30B	21.00	2.84	0.71	2.68%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	52.39B	20.23	1.34	1.41	2.24%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	114.95B	17.70	3.06	4.94	2.10%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	20.56	4.01	2.56	2.02%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	4.54B	19.61	2.21	1.22	1.92%
Forrester Research Inc.	FORR	720.58M	33.90	3.31	2.46	1.77%
Computer Sciences Corporation	CSC	7.49B	12.53	2.42	0.51	1.60%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	109.72B	17.70	2.97	2.45	1.51%
Joy Global, Inc.	JOY	5.20B	7.17	1.81	0.95	1.43%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	2.94B	20.74	6.30	0.88	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	36.23B	11.77	2.17	1.18	1.10%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	3.13B	11.66	2.01	0.72	1.06%
Halliburton Company	HAL	45.23B	24.95	2.95	1.58	1.02%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	59.99B	9.08	1.57	2.03	0.66%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 28, 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 28, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 63 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.39%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation	SIX	3.71B	11.14	8.92	3.40	4.63%
CNOOC Ltd.	CEO	79.93B	7.73	1.58	1.98	4.14%
Great Plains Energy	GXP	3.57B	14.99	1.06	1.50	3.75%
United-Guardian Inc.	UG	121.92M	23.67	8.47	8.78	3.32%
Cott Corporation	COT	811.60M	19.34	1.37	0.36	2.82%
Etablissements Delhaize Freres	DEG	6.60B	40.70	0.97	0.22	2.09%
Harley-Davidson, Inc.	HOG	12.43B	18.73	4.72	2.17	1.52%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	GS	72.77B	10.92	0.95	1.75	1.26%
Lender Processing Services, Inc.	LPS	2.80B	33.32	4.71	1.43	1.21%
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	7.98B	47.61	3.70	1.89	0.88%
La-Z-Boy Inc.	LZB	993.60M	21.33	2.11	0.76	0.84%

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