Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 29, 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 July 29, 2013. In total, 52 stocks go ex dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.07%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.50B	10.93	0.98	4.88	11.96%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners	KMP	32.05B	39.84	3.60	3.39	6.10%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.43B	21.00	1.67	7.40	6.09%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	5.19B	23.66	4.25	5.59	5.93%
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.	EPB	9.49B	20.33	874.40	6.31	5.67%
Omega Healthcare Investors	OHI	3.75B	27.48	3.39	10.20	5.53%
National Retail Properties, Inc.	NNN	4.10B	34.37	1.90	11.81	4.38%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	55.54B	22.50	4.00	1.30	4.32%
Brookfield Office Properties CA	BOXC	2.36B	-	2.74	4.47	4.31%
Vermilion Energy Inc.	VET	5.42B	29.60	3.63	5.16	4.26%
Kinder Morgan, Inc.	KMI	40.27B	41.80	2.95	3.25	3.91%
Western Gas Partners LP	WES	6.41B	87.36	3.79	7.39	3.53%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.93B	16.52	1.88	1.86	3.51%
NiSource Inc.	NI	9.78B	22.14	1.72	1.88	3.18%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	43.45B	24.53	3.97	3.45	2.85%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	15.48B	19.95	2.94	1.00	2.71%
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc.	SUSQ	2.57B	16.21	0.97	3.57	2.32%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	4.80B	23.27	7.37	3.81	1.95%
East West Bancorp, Inc.	EWBC	4.30B	15.72	1.91	4.20	1.92%
Western Gas Equity Partners, LP	WGP	8.73B	137.59	12.79	10.22	1.80%

34 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week | 24 Shares Have A Buy Rating

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 34 stocks announced a dividend hike last week. That’s a pretty increase compared to the recent weeks with only around 10 dividend hikers. We come back to old strength.

The biggest names on the list are the Brazil bank Itau Unibanco Holding, the oil and gas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan as well as the healthcare medical equipment stock Covidien.

24 of the dividend growth stocks from last week have a current buy or better rating and 10 are valuated with a P/E below 15.

The Latest Dividend Growth Stocks | Kinder Morgan In Focus

Stocks with receent dividend hikes originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com.

Two initial special dividends were announced yesterday and nine companies announced a nice dividend growth on the past trading day.

The biggest stock was Kinder Morgan Partners and the greatest dividend hike came from Western Refining with a 50 percent dividend growth. See the table below with ex-dividend and payment dates.

Dividend growth accelerates but is still weak.

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Boston Priv Fincl Hldgs	2.47	40.00%	Quarterly	8/6/2013	8/22/2013
EQT Midstream Partners LP	3.50	8.11%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
First Community	2.15	20.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan	4.05	5.26%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan Energy	6.17	1.54%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/14/2013
LaSalle Hotel Prprts	4.23	40.00%	Quarterly	9/26/2013	10/15/2013
Western Gas Equity Ptrs	1.88	10.49%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/21/2013
Western Gas Partners LP	3.57	3.70%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/12/2013
Western Refining	2.63	50.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013

34 Stocks Increased Dividends Recently | 10 High-Yields

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. For all dividend seekers out there: I am publishing each week a list of stocks and funds that have raised their dividend payments within the recent week.

Dividend growth is a very important item when you are active in the field of dividend investing. Growth creates wealth and nothing else. All you need is time and patience.

This week, 34 stocks increased their dividend payments of which 10 are High-Yields and 19 are currently recommended to buy. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.29 percent.

Popular stocks from the list are the railroad company CSX or the pipeline operator Kinder Morgan. A stock that I personally love is the Dividend King Procter & Gamble who hiked its dividends by 7 percent. The results are very mixed but oil and gas pipeline companies still dominating the screen.

10 Highest Yielding Dividend Contenders | High-Yield Growth Investing

The highest yielding dividend contenders originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend growth is very important for your wealth building strategy. Only a growing passive income allows you to quit your job in earlier years or to improve your retirement age.

 Today I like to show you some of the best yielding dividend growth stocks with a history of growing dividends for 10 to 25 years. They are also named “Dividend Contenders”. Exactly 184 companies have fulfilled these criteria. Linked is a table of the 10 highest yielding stocks. All have a yield over five percent and three of them are currently recommended to buy.

Oil and gas pipeline stocks dominating the results. They’ve seen a real boom within the recent years and should go on but I have ever warned for the high debt and inflexible of the business model.

20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Top Yields And Low Volatility

Basic material dividend stocks with low betas and large market capitalization originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". When I buy stocks I ever take a look at the risk fundamentals of a company. Beside the market capitalization, the beta ratio is a meaningful ratio. The ratio shows investors how volatile a stock is compared to the overall market. A beta value of 1.2 means: The stock has a 20 percent higher volatility than the market. I use this tool to identify the underlying risks of a business model. For sure, it’s not perfect but a good first step to evaluate the risk situation.

Today I like to run my screen for the safest basic material stocks. These are my criteria:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Beta ratio below 1

Linked are the 20 best yielding stocks. 14 of them have a current buy or better recommendation and five are high-yields. Oil and gas companies are the dominating category.

20 High-Yield Stocks With Safe Heaven Characteristics

High-Yield MidCap stocks with low beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Investors always look for opportunities on the market. They try to realize a bigger return by excluding additional risks. Risk-free stocks don’t exist but some stocks have a higher volatility than others. A ratio that measures the volatility is the beta ratio.

Linked is a sheet of the “safest” high-yielding stocks. Those stocks have a beta ratio below 0.5 as well as a higher market capitalization. In my case, I screen for stocks with a market valuation over USD 2 billion.

Only 20 companies fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which six have a double-digit yield. Eight of the results are recommended to buy. REITs and oil & gas pipeline stocks dominating the screen.

17 High-Yield Oil And Gas Pipeline Stocks

Oil & gas pipeline operators with highest dividend yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Stocks from the basic material sector could complement your portfolio and hedge it against strong commodity price increases. One industry from the basic material sector with the highest yielding stocks is the oil and gas pipeline industry.

39 companies are linked to the industry of which 37 pay dividends. Combined they have a total market capitalization of USD 800 billion. Nearly 60 percent of the industry players have a yield over 5 percent and some have a really great dividend history. Thanks to the share gas boom it’s now possible that more pipeline infrastructure is needed. The average industry yield amounts to 4.72% and the P/E ratio is 33.40.

You should have seen some interesting pipeline companies on my blog in the past. Normally I am no fan of real estate companies because of the huge amounts of money they need for growing. But pipeline operators look different. They pay huge dividends and have the ability to grow dividends year over year. Their business model works but I don’t know how long. Pipeline operators are better than real estate stocks but it could be possible that the time brings some changes, especially when the energy demand and supply is changing.

Oil and gas pipeline stocks are real asset companies and they have a huge leverage on their balance sheet. The average industry long-term debt to equity ratio is over 123 percent but as long as revenue and cash flow streams are stable, this figure is still healthy.

Linked is a list of all higher capitalized oil and gas pipeline operators (over USD 2 billion market cap) with a yield over 5 percent. Seventeen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which eight have a current buy or better recommendation.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 29, 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 29, 2013. In total, 44 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 35 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.38B	6.49	1.05	6.11	11.62%
Atlantic Power Corporation	AT	4.35B	4.75	1.82	0.50	9.11%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.21B	27.62	1.16	2.53	7.24%
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc.	OHI	2.92B	25.83	2.86	8.81	6.90%
Copano Energy LLC	CPNO	2.64B	-	2.81	1.92	6.88%
El Paso Pipeline Partners	EPB	8.83B	19.04	4.45	5.83	5.96%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners	KMP	32.48B	53.94	2.87	3.76	5.80%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	5.55B	19.38	4.18	5.14	5.80%
National Retail Properties	NNN	3.53B	32.12	1.54	11.06	4.92%
ONEOK Partners, L.P.	OKS	13.14B	16.43	2.94	1.26	4.75%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	50.08B	19.52	3.89	1.16	4.74%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.08B	16.30	1.53	1.58	4.10%
Kinder Morgan, Inc.	KMI	38.62B	40.93	2.89	3.87	3.97%
Brookfield Office Properties CA	BOXC	2.73B	-	3.35	5.40	3.72%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	13.42B	19.96	2.84	0.97	3.09%
ONEOK Inc.	OKE	9.70B	28.74	4.70	0.74	3.04%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	36.76B	21.72	3.32	2.87	2.56%
Eldorado Gold Corp.	EGO	8.18B	26.05	1.41	7.43	1.22%
AO Smith Corp.	AOS	3.23B	20.00	2.71	1.67	1.14%