Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 03, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 7 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 stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Dynex Capital Inc.	DX	490.92M	5.76	0.99	3.87	12.09%
Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners	BEP	7.01B	-	2.35	5.27	5.43%
The First Bancorp, Inc.	FNLC	176.78M	14.12	1.21	3.53	4.68%
Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A.	BSBR	-	691.00	40.65	-	4.05%
Ennis Inc.	EBF	471.40M	14.93	1.26	0.90	3.88%
The Bank of South Carolina	BKSC	63.87M	16.31	1.86	5.07	3.34%
Golden Enterprises Inc.	GLDC	46.93M	40.00	1.95	0.34	3.25%
Terreno Realty Corp.	TRNO	338.24M	-	1.14	8.76	2.93%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	42.89M	-	1.16	2.29	2.17%
McCormick & Co. Inc.	MKC	8.57B	21.34	4.81	2.09	2.10%
Banner Corporation	BANR	744.13M	14.36	1.43	4.07	1.25%
Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.	TR	1.86B	35.40	2.88	3.42	1.03%
First Internet Bancorp	INBK	75.06M	11.65	1.23	3.13	0.92%
Shoe Carnival Inc.	SCVL	538.67M	17.89	1.76	0.60	0.89%
Curtiss-Wright Corp.	CW	2.22B	21.68	1.61	0.97	0.84%
Werner Enterprises Inc.	WERN	1.73B	18.55	2.35	0.86	0.84%
Limoneira Company	LMNR	342.68M	64.38	3.75	4.01	0.58%
Eagle Materials Inc.	EXP	3.62B	48.61	4.99	5.06	0.54%

17 Highest Dividend Paying Processed & Packaged Goods Stocks

The highest yielding processed and packaged goods stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". One of my favorite industries within the consumer goods sector is the processed and packaged goods industry. Only 35 companies have a relationship to the industry and 17 of them pay dividends.

I love the industry because of the high number of low beta stocks. Foods and consumer goods are daily consumption products with essential functions. Consumers don’t stop washing or cooking if the economy is going down. Sure if they lose their job they need to look for cheaper products or scout for less services and quality but they don’t stop consuming. That’s also the reason why I love the processed and packaged goods industry. Car purchases will be deferred but toilet paper and deodorant buys not in the same way.

Linked is a small list of the highest dividend paying processed and packaged goods stocks. 12 of them have a current buy or better recommendation.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

I love dividends and dividend growth stocks. That’s the main reason why I make a regular screen of the latest stocks with dividend growth on my blog “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

I believe that those companies could have a well running business and could have a better performance in the long-run. Below is a current list of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. 

In total, 9 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 5 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 14.22 percent.

Below the best dividend hike stocks/funds are two with a high yield. Seven of the results are currently recommended to buy.