Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 08, 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 April 08, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.42%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	142.97B	159.03	4.25	1.23	4.18%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.61B	14.55	3.39	0.80	3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.27B	15.95	1.70	0.95	3.83%
E-House (China) Holdings	EJ	507.25M	-	0.69	1.19	3.50%
CH Energy Group Inc.	CHG	978.23M	25.34	1.89	1.06	3.40%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.60B	18.09	4.50	1.85	3.10%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	3.64B	18.91	7.15	3.10	2.63%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	20.63B	17.66	3.14	1.73	2.45%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	6.95B	19.66	2.51	1.89	2.37%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.67B	30.11	1.62	1.27	2.34%
Spreadtrum Communications	SPRD	921.67M	10.14	2.49	1.29	1.89%
Gap Inc.	GPS	17.05B	15.73	6.09	1.09	1.64%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	147.91M	11.16	1.60	3.03	1.49%
American Tower Corporation	AMT	31.05B	49.11	8.69	10.80	1.32%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.15B	22.06	5.22	2.79	1.32%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	915.44M	16.96	2.81	1.24	1.13%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	19.18B	28.63	6.87	4.58	1.05%
InterDigital, Inc.	IDCC	1.81B	6.86	3.48	2.73	0.91%
FEI Company	FEIC	2.44B	22.57	2.90	2.73	0.51%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 08, 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 January 08, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.16%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	200.11B	45.75	1.99	1.57	5.11%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	126.43B	41.40	3.36	1.11	4.65%
National Health Investors Inc.	NHI	1.64B	24.59	3.72	17.16	4.56%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.01B	13.24	3.21	0.73	4.30%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.09B	14.93	1.61	0.86	3.95%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.00B	-	1.97	8.37	3.67%
CH Energy Group Inc.	CHG	976.24M	24.83	1.87	1.06	3.40%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	27.01B	15.41	3.86	1.58	3.16%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	5.71B	16.24	2.06	1.54	2.89%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.77B	-	1.71	1.35	2.19%
Aetna Inc.	AET	15.21B	8.66	1.40	0.43	1.76%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	7.73B	19.52	0.51	0.69	1.71%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	139.90M	10.77	1.55	2.88	1.58%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.43B	25.71	6.71	4.36	1.09%
West Coast Bancorp	WCBO	441.55M	13.87	1.31	4.76	0.87%

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Best Dividend Paying Diversified Utility Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The utility sector is a big part of the stock market. Stocks from the sector have a total market capitalization of USD 19.12 trillion. The average sector yield amounts to 4.14 percent and the P/E ratio is 15.45.

I screened one of the most diversified industries by the best yielding companies. The diversified utilities industry contains 24 companies of which 21 pay dividends. Below the results is one stock with a double-digit yield.

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I screened the sector by dividend stocks with the highest amount of short selling stocks, measured by the short float ratio. The ratio shows how many stocks are shorted by investors. Companies with a high ratio of short float have a little upside potential if investors need to close their short position. Twelve dividend stocks from the utility sector have a short float ratio of more than 5 percent.

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