20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

Raw Material dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Basic Material stocks were the worst performing stock category within the recent six month. The sector had a performance of -0.7 percent while the S&P 500 increased 15.27 percent.

The fear of an economic slowdown mainly caused by China’s slowing growth is the main reason behind.

Investors can benefit from a falling stock price via short selling. Today I like to look at the basic material dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion.

The top 20 results have a float short ratio between 6 percent and 32.62 percent. Eight of the results still have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 31, 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 31, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.85%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TAL International Group, Inc.	TAL	1.50B	11.08	2.37	2.47	5.96%
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	3.60B	-	0.97	0.71	5.19%
REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP	RGC	2.89B	23.81	-	1.04	4.52%
NV Energy, Inc.	NVE	4.54B	13.87	1.28	1.54	3.94%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	213.07B	10.23	1.81	2.33	3.89%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.64B	26.62	3.39	2.13	3.15%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	47.38B	20.81	1.23	1.26	2.51%
China Telecom Corp. Ltd.	CHA	39.36B	16.16	0.91	0.85	2.04%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	24.76	4.22	2.59	2.02%
Tidewater Inc.	TDW	2.78B	20.43	1.09	2.31	1.78%
Mainsource Financial Group	MSFG	281.86M	11.82	0.91	2.65	1.74%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.67B	16.81	2.82	1.78	1.66%
Cass Information Systems Inc.	CASS	516.25M	22.02	2.93	11.42	1.60%
Westlake Chemical Corp.	WLK	6.21B	14.81	3.13	1.83	0.81%

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