Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 27, 2012

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 December 27, 2012. In total, 88 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 50 yield more than 13 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	26.93B	13.81	3.61	1.43	4.40%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	33.46B	24.21	1.94	4.01	3.71%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.83B	27.55	1.81	0.70	3.38%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.32B	52.31	2.83	14.70	2.84%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	11.14B	15.13	2.40	2.01	2.54%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	15.99B	54.08	3.12	8.69	2.45%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	60.75B	11.50	1.57	4.71	2.41%
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.	HST	11.45B	790.00	1.66	2.20	2.28%
Deere & Company	DE	33.40B	11.28	4.93	0.92	2.14%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	14.70B	10.63	2.05	0.89	2.03%
Mondelez International, Inc.	MDLZ	45.62B	13.80	1.24	0.85	2.03%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	21.24B	14.98	2.54	2.49	1.90%
Yamana Gold, Inc.	AUY	12.65B	35.06	1.65	5.56	1.54%
Humana Inc.	HUM	10.78B	9.11	1.24	0.28	1.53%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	14.29B	12.56	2.74	2.08	0.97%

Best Basic Material Dividend Stock Buy Picks For 2013

Basic material stocks became popular with the increase in raw material prices due to the strong growth of China from the recent year. Not only directly commodity mining stocks exploded, also supplier of mining equipment started to boom. The basic material sector is a small investment field with around 600 listed companies. I made a list of the best stocks picks for next year. My criteria are:

- Forward P/E under 15

- Past 5Y Sales growth over 10 percent

- Earnings per share growth for the next five years over 10 percent

- Operating Margin over 10 percent

- Market capitalization above USD 10 billion

Nine higher capitalized stocks remained the screening criteria of which eight are currently recommended to buy. The results are dominated by stocks from the oil & gas equipment and services industry. I am not sure if these picks could be the best growth driver for your private wealth. Sure, America is expected to have a current energy boom due to shale gas.

18 Best Dividend Paying Basic Material Stocks (High Growth With Low Debt)

Best Dividend Paying Basic Material Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The basic material sector is a great investment field with fantastic growth potential if the economy starts to recover. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 210.91 trillion and summarizes 604 companies. The average dividend yield amounts to 3.23 percent and the P/E ratio is 13.51.

In order to find the best dividend paying stocks within the sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 15 percent and an operating margin over 20 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.4. Eighteen basic material companies remained of which three yielding over three percent and sixteen are currently recommended to buy.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (August 06 – August 12, 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, 45 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 26 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 14.68 percent. Exactly 12 stocks have a yield over five percent and 16 are currently recommended to buy.

The Best Growing Foreign Dividend Stocks

Attractive Dividend Stocks From Overseas With Best Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Europe is on fire. Everybody is talking about the European debt crises and the slowing growth within the Euro Area. China and the other emerging markets are trying to manage a soft-landing. However, many stocks from abroad are still attractive although investors pull back money from these countries and invested it into US-Dollar vehicles. I screened stocks from overseas with a positive dividend yield, a low debt to equity ratio of less than 0.5 as well as earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent for the upcoming five years. In order reduce the results and to select those stocks with higher safeness, I listed all companies with a beta ratio below one and a market capitalization over USD 2 billion. Fourteen stocks remained of which twelve are currently recommended to buy.