Compass Diversified Holdings
Recently trading under $15 per share buys and manages businesses. As of the end of last year they had 6 companies under their control including a furniture, medical and personnel company.

Healthcare Services Group
HCSG trades on the nasdaq and was recently trading around $21 per share. HCSG provides housekeeping and facility maintenance services to the health care industry.

Banco Latin Americano
BLX is a supranational bank that was established by the central banks of Latin America. It was recently trading around $12 per share with a EPS of 1.32 and a PE ratio under 10.

Royal Bank of Canada
RY was trading at 51.36 on 7/16/10 with a EPS of 3.79 and a PE ratio of 13.55. RY provides many different banking services to the global community.

Duncan Energy Partners L.P.
DEP has an EPS of 1.59 and a PE ratio of 18.01. Duncan specializes in natural gas transportation.

Company	Symbol	Ex-Date	Yield
Fifth Street Finance	FSC	5/18	9.99%
Medallion Financial	TAXI	5/19	7.47%
Safe Bulkers, Inc.	SB	5/19	7.64%
Teekay Tankers	TNK	5/19	12.31%
Eni	E	5/24	7.18%
Cherokee Inc.	CHKE	5/27	7.34%

As we know, not all high yielders are created equally so let’s take a look at their financials. Remember that to get the dividend for the quarter or month you need to own the stock at the close the day before the ex-dividend date.

Fifth Street Finance – FSC
Fifth Street Finance has a yield of about 10% with positive EPS of .97 and a average P/E ratio of 13.24. FSC has been on a steady climb higher over the last year as a mid market loan provider and were recently featured in Investors Business Daily.

Medallion Financial – TAXI
Medallion Financial has an interesting looking chart. Its been stuck on 8 for a while so with the right trigger it could jump off that $8 base and move higher. The yield is 7.5% but the EPS and PE numbers don’t look that hot to me. This one may just be good for a trade.

Safe Bulkers – SB
Safe Bulkers transports many things, but mostly coals, grain and iron. Oppenheimer initiated coverage on SB on May 14th with an outperform rating. SB pays a annual dividend of $.60 which gives it a yield of 7.6%.

Teekay Tankers – TNK
Teekay owns and operates oil tankers. EPS and PE look decent for TNK, and the one chart shows that the stock is trending higher with a look at a come back from a recent dip. The yield on TNK is 8.7%.

Cherokee – CHKE
Cherokee has solid earnings, price to earnings ratio and a annual dividend of 1.52 per year giving it a yield of 7.3%. This stock is lightly traded at only about 50k shares per day so be careful if you are in it for a quick dividend trade.

Company	Symbol	Ex-Date	Yield
Eli Lilly	LLY	12-May	5.6%
Qwest	Q	19-May	6.1%
Nokia	NOK	7-May	4.00%
Pfizer	PFE	5-May	4.37%

Eli Lilly – LLY
Eli Lilly sells medical products all over the world. ELi has a solid stock price, trading at over $30 a share. EPS is almost $4 and the P/E ratio is very low, just around $9. The one year target estimate is just about 7% higher than what the stock is trading at today. The annual dividend is almost $2 a share giving LLY a yield of 5.6%

Qwest – Q
Qwest is a communications company that provides data, Internet, video and voice products globally. Qwest is almost in penny stock territory trading around $5 a share. The one year target estimate doesn’t show that much of an increase is expected in the next year. When stocks fall to these levels, the yield is always suspect. It’s currently listed at $.32 a sharer which gives Q a yield of 6.1%.

Nokia – NOK
You probably already know what Nokia does, you might even have one of their cell phones. They also provide other Internet and wireless services. Nokia is trading around $12 a share with no positive earnings. The yield shows at 4.6%, and they do have an ex dividend date of May 7th, but with no positive income we can’t expect the dividend to stay around for long.

Pfizer – PFE
Pfizer is a medical company, another company that you probably have personal experience with. PFE is trading in the mid teens with positive EPS of 1.23 and PE of 13.65. The annual dividend is $.72 with a yield of 4.3%. The one year target estimate for PFE is 22.16.

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If you are just looking for a quick trade then you might not care too much about the financials of each company. For long term investors let’s take a look at a couple of these stocks and see if they are a good value.

Anworth has a big yield, EPS at 1.16 and a low PE ratio of 6.09. Market cap is 824M. The one year target estimate is over $8.

Capano Energy has a yield of 8.9% but the EPS is only $.40 which gives it a high PE ratio of 64.81. One year target estimate on this stock is pretty much the same as it is trading today.

Penn West Energy has a good yield but EPS is negative. Enough said there.

Duncan Energy has a yield of 6.4% with a positive EPS of 1.57 and a PE ratio over 17. Market cap is 1.6B.

Kohlberg Capital – KCAP
Kohlberg goes ex-dividend on 4/5/2010 and has a yield of 14.57%.

Verizon – VZ
Verizon goes ex-dividend on 4/7/2010 and has a yield of 6.27%.

Progress Energy – PGN
Progress Energy goes ex-dividend on 4/8/2010 and has a yield of 6.34%.

Consolidated Communications -CNSL
CNSL goes ex-dividend of 4/13/2010 and has a yield of 8.23%.

Dorchester Minerals – DMLP
Dorchester produces natural gas and crude oil. They have an annual dividend of 1.29 giving DMLP a yield of 6.10%.

Lorillard – LO
Lorillard is a cigarette company that has a high annual dividend of $4 per share which gives it a yield of 5.2%. LO currently trades at 76 even.

Mobile Telesystems – MBT
MBT is a cell phone company with a annual dividend of 2.71 which gives it a yield of 5.1%

Textainer Group – TGH
Textainer makes containers and has a yield of 4.4% with a annual dividend of .92. They have strong financials with EPS at 1.88 and PE at 11.24.

Vectren Corporation – VVC
Vectren is an energy company with a annual Dividend of 1.36 giving vvc a yield of 5.7%. EPS is at 1.64 and the market cap is almost 2B.

I always prefer to buy stock in companies that I’m familiar with. I go to movies at Regal all the time. RGC goes ex-dividend on March 2nd. As of Friday Regal was trading at 14.94 with a yield of 4.7%. The Market cap is 2.3B and the P/E ratio is just over 24.

Another stock you might be familiar with is WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, which goes ex-dividend on March 11th. WWE closed at 17.05 on March 26th and pays a 8.5% dividend yield.

Global Partners – GLP
GLP is going ex-dividend on Feb 1, 2010. GLP closed at 25.68 on Jan 29, 2010 with a yield of 7.8%.

Inergy – NRGY
NRGY is going ex dividend on Feb 3, 2010. NRGY closed at 35.63 on January 29th and has a 7.6% dividend yield.

Heritage Financial – HBOS
HBOS is also going ex-dividend on February 3rd and has a 4.4% yield. HBOS trades at under $10 a share.

The first is Kite Realty Group Trust going ex-div on January 05, 2010 with a yield of 5.69%

On January 6, 2010 ATT (T) goes ex-dividend with a solid 5.98% yield. Verizon (VZ) goes ex-dividend that same day with a yield of 5.7%.

I expect to see some heavy trading around T and VZ this week.

Today, 12/4/9, UBSI is trading at 17.38 with a 754M market cap and a P/E Ratio of 11.38. The EPS is 1.52.

UBSI is trading at the lower end of its 52 week trading range of 13.15 – 33.85.