These Military Stocks Profiting Mostly From Wars

Since the conclusion of World War II, the United States and a number of Western European nations have maintained extremely costly military industrial complexes — both in peacetime and during the numerous other conflicts since. 

The United States is far and away the largest defense market, and U.S.-based companies disproportionately comprise the top global arms dealers.

Global military sales from the 100 largest dealers totaled $401 billion in 2014, down by 1.5% — but still substantially higher than in 2002 — according to the latest estimates released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Today I like to show you those military and defense stocks that offer the most values for investors.

Each of the attached results pays a dividend. The results are ranked by market capitalization. There is a huge range of stocks available.

Here are the best choices in my view...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 18, 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, 11 stocks go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Gladstone Investment	GAIN	190.63M	12.86	0.83	5.96	10.00%
Gladstone Land	LAND	105.85M	147.36	1.87	29.40	8.88%
Gladstone Commercial	GOOD	231.26M	-	1.39	4.20	8.03%
Pengrowth Energy	PGH	3.29B	-	0.85	2.69	7.38%
Vale S.A.	VALE	84.57B	20.26	1.20	1.81	4.57%
Codorus Valley Bancorp Inc.	CVLY	92.60M	9.98	1.18	2.00	2.34%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	58.11B	26.06	37.98	3.36	2.18%
Tri-County Financial Corporation	TCFC	60.00M	10.10	0.98	1.51	2.00%
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	QCOR	3.93B	18.04	15.00	6.34	1.50%
AAR Corp.	AIR	1.06B	20.24	1.13	0.51	1.09%
Apache Corp.	APA	35.37B	14.32	1.12	2.08	0.89%

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 18, 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 October 18, 2012. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.76%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Gladstone Commercial Corp.	GOOD	232.06M	234.88	1.63	4.92	7.98%
Gladstone Investment Corporation	GAIN	166.70M	11.27	0.83	7.62	7.95%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	922.08M	9.51	2.15	2.32	7.94%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.00B	23.79	1.02	2.38	7.75%
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.08B	20.54	1.23	5.46	7.48%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	3.95B	21.73	1.51	7.25	6.97%
Select Income REIT	SIR	772.20M	11.57	1.08	7.07	6.79%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	1.24B	42.14	0.36	1.25	6.78%
The Washington Post Company	WPO	2.69B	27.59	1.04	0.66	2.71%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	55.50B	9.50	3.49	0.84	2.45%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	7.72B	16.32	2.68	0.95	2.04%
Graco Inc.	GGG	2.94B	21.67	7.51	3.11	1.85%
Epoch Investment Partners, Inc.	EPHC	514.78M	20.70	7.76	5.57	1.84%
AAR Corp.	AIR	660.21M	9.72	0.75	0.31	1.81%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	59.67B	16.57	1.57	0.51	1.39%
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana	HFBL	50.18M	17.73	1.02	3.94	1.35%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	8.57B	17.33	4.46	2.91	0.78%
Apache Corp.	APA	34.07B	10.43	1.11	1.99	0.78%

17 Of The Best Aerospace/Defense Products And Services Dividend Stocks

The Best Yielding Aerospace/Defense Products And Services Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The aerospace industry is growing in the long-run. The industry has 41 companies listed with a total market capitalization of USD 215 billion. The average P/E ratio amounts to 14.50 and the dividend yield has a value of 2.4 percent.

I screened the whole industry by the best yielding stocks. Seventeen companiespay dividends of which three yield over three percent. Twelve have a buy or better recommendation.