Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 23, 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 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.14%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
CPFL Energia S.A.	CPL	7.78B	15.55	2.69	1.21	5.81%
CIFC Corp.	CIFC	162.31M	26.90	0.61	15.46	5.13%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.34B	23.95	4.50	1.20	3.23%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	249.50B	19.73	3.58	3.56	2.97%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	1.56B	5.58	1.61	0.17	2.27%
Rocky Brands, Inc.	RCKY	132.81M	12.53	1.04	0.54	2.26%
Prudential Financial, Inc.	PRU	36.06B	-	1.03	0.45	2.06%
Elbit Systems Ltd.	ESLT	1.92B	10.92	1.84	0.67	1.96%
YPF S.A.	YPF	6.45B	10.12	1.15	0.47	1.95%
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.	MHFI	16.25B	22.53	13.28	3.40	1.89%
KeyCorp	KEY	11.05B	14.06	1.11	4.12	1.82%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	15.20B	16.36	2.65	1.17	1.77%
John Bean Technologies	JBT	659.34M	17.50	6.07	0.72	1.59%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.71B	23.44	1.76	1.47	1.38%
Carpenter Technology	CRS	2.90B	20.11	2.23	1.28	1.31%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	618.62M	95.00	0.98	0.33	0.88%
Nordson Corporation	NDSN	4.48B	19.57	6.09	2.90	0.86%
Marten Transport Ltd.	MRTN	600.44M	20.55	1.75	0.92	0.39%

38 Stocks And ETFs Let Their Dividends Jump Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week, 36 stocks and two ETFs announced to raise dividends. It’s great to see how the American dividend stock machine works. Compared to the number of stocks from the recent weeks, the current results are still thin but solid. The list of the weekly dividend grower is very volatile and the number of constituents is between 10 and 100. This week, the average growth rates amounts to 33.8, a value twice as much as the results from last week.

I love it to see how companies increase their dividend payments despite the fact that I would buy only a few of them. The biggest names on the list are Clorox, Coach, Marriott, Macy’s and Potash. Three of the results are High-Yields and 20 have a current buy or better rating.