5 Higher Yielding Growth Picks With Acceptable Price Ratios

I've recently published an article about stocks that combined dividends and growth. The article introduced five picks with attractive fundamentals but the yield ratios were really low.

Today I would like to fix this lack by showing you some higher yielding stocks with great earnings growth forecasts. 

In addition, the valuation could not be cheap because of the higher growth rates but they should be acceptable. These are my criteria in detail:

- Dividend Yield - Over 4%

- Payout Ratio - Under 100%

- Sales growth Past 5 years - Over 10%

- EPS growth Past 5 years - Over 10%

- EPS growth next 5 years - Over 10%

- Trailing P/E - Under 25

- Forward P/E - Under 20

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 16, 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 16, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Seaspan Corp.	SSW	1.45B	28.52	1.15	2.19	5.48%
Giant Interactive Group	GA	1.92B	11.96	3.73	5.47	5.24%
Select Medical Holdings	SEM	1.15B	8.22	1.55	0.39	4.87%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	4.02B	17.22	1.58	1.17	3.15%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.32B	6.15	0.78	0.96	2.75%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	37.56B	17.77	1.49	1.85	2.74%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	1.99B	11.62	4.27	1.30	2.56%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	62.28B	20.45	4.63	1.65	2.07%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.20B	15.31	2.14	0.51	2.01%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.33B	16.91	2.91	1.81	1.66%
Hanesbrands Inc.	HBI	5.01B	16.61	5.28	1.11	1.57%
Bunge Limited	BG	10.61B	28.75	0.93	0.17	1.50%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	3.50B	16.34	2.35	2.49	1.46%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.86B	21.44	32.53	5.28	1.20%
Watts Water Technologies	WTS	1.66B	23.55	1.77	1.15	1.11%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.54B	17.91	2.38	1.35	0.87%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.00B	29.63	7.74	1.69	0.70%

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