Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 09, 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 09, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.11%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	AHGP	3.54B	18.05	7.93	1.74	5.00%
Enterprise Bancorp Inc.	EBTC	160.49M	12.58	1.12	2.33	2.81%
Exxon Mobil Corporation	XOM	405.29B	9.41	2.47	0.87	2.76%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	430.52B	10.95	3.18	2.55	2.66%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	12.28B	17.27	6.08	1.97	2.37%
Simplicity Bancorp, Inc.	SMPL	125.86M	19.64	0.82	3.19	2.14%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	44.15M	71.25	1.18	2.14	2.11%
National Instruments Corporation	NATI	3.44B	38.15	3.58	2.94	2.01%
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia	SONA	120.07M	18.18	1.17	3.20	1.93%
Rockwell Collins Inc.	COL	8.87B	15.16	7.93	1.90	1.84%
W.W. Grainger, Inc.	GWW	17.60B	25.60	5.63	1.95	1.47%

Best Yielding Dividend Challengers | 30 High-Yield Dividend Growth Stocks

Dividend Challengers with the highest dividend yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend Challengers are the third class of the best dividend growth stocks. They raised cash distributions to shareholders in form of dividends over a period between 5 and 10 years without a break.

Exactly 175 stocks raised dividends over this period. Today, I like to present the best yielding Challengers. The list below shows all High-Yield stocks. In total, there are 30 companies with a yield of more than 5 percent and nearly half of the results are recommended to buy.

Some Challengers have the potential to grow dividends to real Champions but most of them will fail over the next five or ten years. I personally would not use the dividend growth criteria as a big requirement. The biggest capital gains will be made with good growth picks. The payments will come from alone in the end.

The Biggest And Best Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 07, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 07, 2012. In total, 77 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 28 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.01%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
NuStar Energy L.P.	NS	3.55B	-	1.39	0.49	9.48%
AmeriGas Partners LP	APU	4.12B	28.12	2.65	1.44	7.20%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.19B	-	0.92	2.64	6.69%
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	AHGP	2.99B	15.33	7.12	1.53	5.76%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	2.57B	56.50	2.29	5.04	5.19%
American Electric Power	AEP	21.09B	14.59	1.38	1.43	4.32%
Macerich Co.	MAC	7.64B	29.58	2.66	9.03	4.04%
Hudson City Bancorp, Inc.	HCBK	4.49B	-	0.95	2.56	3.76%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	183.60B	19.66	2.27	3.03	3.58%
Vornado Realty Trust	VNO	14.87B	46.99	2.15	5.27	3.46%
Unilever NV	UN	109.46B	19.74	5.60	1.74	3.36%
Unilever plc	UL	111.80B	20.16	5.73	1.77	3.29%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	32.17B	14.08	1.76	0.45	3.23%
RPC Inc.	RES	2.51B	8.47	2.77	1.28	2.80%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	179.95B	10.66	1.16	3.68	2.59%
Boeing Co.	BA	53.09B	12.42	7.00	0.67	2.50%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	14.94B	48.49	3.45	2.24	2.46%
National Instruments	NATI	3.00B	31.91	3.27	2.68	2.28%
Rockwell Collins Inc.	COL	7.74B	13.12	6.19	1.64	2.20%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	8.95B	15.45	2.02	3.38	2.20%

5 Of The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (Oct 29 – Nov 04, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 49 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 24 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 19.91 percent. Exactly 19 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent (high yield); 25 above three percent. 35 companies are currently recommended to buy.

The biggest dividend hike came from the beverage and softdrink company Cott (COT) and he savings and loans stock Capital Federal Finl (CFFN). Both increased their dividend distributions by 140 percent.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (July 30 – August 05, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 64 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 36 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 23.02 percent. Exactly 19 stocks have a yield over five percent and 35 are currently recommended to buy.

10 Most Profitable Dividend Challengers To Consider

Dividend Challengers With Highest Return On Investment Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Challengers are stocks with a history of rising dividend of more than 5 years in a row but less than 10 years. Stocks with such a long dividend growth history have a high reliability but which one are currently the best in terms of profitability?

I screened the 189 Dividend Challengers by the highest return on investment (ROI) and observed only the stocks with the highest figures. Ten companies have currently the highest ROI of more than 25 percent.

The Best Dividends On May 09, 2012

Here is a current overview of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 09, 2012. In total, 53 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 25 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69 percent.

Best Recommended High Yield Dividend Challengers

High Yield Dividend Challengers With Buy Or Better Recommendation Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Challengers are stocks with uninterrupted dividend growth of at least five years but less than 10 years. 192 stocks, listed on AMEX, NASDAQ or NYSE, fulfilled these dividend growth criteria. I screened the investment category by stocks with a high yield (over 5 percent) and a buy or better recommendation. In order to reduce the results and to eliminate stocks with a lower capitalization, I observed only stocks with a capitalization over USD 2 billion. Ten companies remained. The results are dominated by stocks from the basic material sector (80 percent). The oil and gas pipeline industry presented 60 percent of the results.

The Best Basic Material Dividend Stocks

Basic Material Dividend Stocks With High Return On Investments And Big Operating Margins Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Basic materials are the source of all economic activities but their prices are very cyclic and something like the fever curve of the economy. In booming times, basic resources are rare and prices high; therefore margins are very high.

I screened the basic material sector by the most profitable stocks (stocks with an operating margin and return on investment over 20 percent) with a dividend yield over 1 percent. Because of the huge amount of results (24 stocks), I selected only those stocks with a market capitalization above USD 2 billion. Thirteen companies’ fulfilled these criteria of which five are high yields and nine are recommended to buy or better.