Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 11, 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.

In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.17%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Escalade Inc.	ESCA	71.13M	-	0.92	0.50	6.04%
Gas Natural Inc.	EGAS	78.76M	30.35	1.04	0.88	5.74%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.36B	11.03	1.24	0.83	5.71%
Penns Woods Bancorp Inc.	PWOD	147.07M	10.38	1.57	3.96	4.91%
BankUnited, Inc.	BKU	2.18B	12.62	1.25	3.15	3.64%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	3.92B	30.53	1.43	0.97	3.32%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.26B	13.66	1.51	1.47	3.20%
Flexsteel Industries Inc.	FLXS	137.26M	10.25	0.97	0.38	3.06%
Utah Medical Products Inc.	UTMD	128.80M	13.21	2.65	3.09	2.80%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	4.71B	15.16	1.01	1.50	2.73%
Home Federal Bancorp Inc.	HOME	165.47M	56.90	0.90	3.13	2.11%
Synovus Financial Corp.	SNV	1.83B	29.12	0.64	1.77	1.72%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	4.31B	29.27	3.02	2.21	1.02%
Berry Petroleum Co.	BRY	1.78B	-	1.82	1.85	0.97%

Best Stocks With Dividend Growth | 32 Stocks Announced A Dividend Hike Last Week

Stocks with biggest dividend hikes from last week; originally published at Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current list of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 32 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 17 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 24.26 percent. Below the results are six high-yields and eighteen companies are currently recommended to buy.

My favorites are low leveraged stocks. I believe that those companies could give investors a solid chance of further dividend hikes. If not, they could boost growth without capital increases. I do not own any stocks from the screen. I'm annoyed not to buy some Disney shares. Last year, I bought stocks from its rivals Hasbro and Mattel because of the higher yield and lower P/E. They performed well but Disney beats this return despite the fact that the current dividend yield is still low and below the two percent mark.