Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 09, 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, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.85%. 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
Calamos Convertible & High Income Fund	CHY	879.48M	7.26	0.90	11.54	8.37%
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	812.21M	11.20	1.88	8.04	7.33%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	7.97B	-	1.25	1.25	4.87%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.31B	-	2.31	2.45	4.62%
Gold Resource Corp	GORO	432.04M	20.27	5.07	3.23	4.44%
Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania	UVSP	318.56M	15.14	1.14	4.04	4.19%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.13B	16.07	1.04	1.09	3.93%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	1.10B	-	1.53	4.10	3.73%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.61B	12.36	1.92	0.60	2.65%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	42.67B	-	1.73	0.38	2.62%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.61B	16.43	2.43	0.99	2.58%
Rockwood Holdings, Inc.	ROC	4.93B	53.75	3.60	1.49	2.50%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	732.24M	17.90	1.03	0.63	2.21%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.74B	22.62	3.05	1.31	1.93%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	12.08B	20.72	4.67	2.71	1.06%
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.	FOXA	74.16B	11.02	4.36	2.68	0.78%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	46.56B	27.44	2.10	3.29	0.78%
DaVita, Inc.	DVA	11.70B	20.17	2.84	1.16	-

The Best Performing Utilities And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Utility dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Utilities are often high dividend payers but they also have high debt amounts and their growth abilities are very limited.

Normally, you should not expect higher capital gains due to the slow growth and high investment costs.

It’s surprising that the best performing utilities gained 18 percent to 80 percent within the first six months of the year. I my view, it’s a shift to quality business models with higher yields and stable returns. Investors look for investment alternatives outside the bond sector and utilities are a place to be for the time being.

You can find a small list of the 20 best performing utility dividend stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below 300 million. They are definitely too risky and some of them have an extraordinary high return. Lower valuated companies dominating the top results. The average market capitalization amounts to 3.6 billion.

Despite the large price increase of the stocks, twelve of them still have a buy or better rating.

8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

Most sold short utility dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to look at the most shorted dividend stocks from the utility sector. I observed only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million and a float short ratio over 5 percent.

Only eight companies have a capital stake with more than 5 percent of short sellers. Utilities are very unpopular in terms of borrowing shares and selling them with hope to cause a stock crash.

I often told that one of the characteristics of a utility stock is the stability. But the price you pay is the low growth and high debt. The capital intensive business model doesn’t allow it to expand the balance sheet without capital increases.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 07, 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 June 07, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.99%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	87.49B	8.74	1.02	0.19	5.73%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.48B	16.70	1.67	1.39	3.61%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	19.36B	-	1.44	9.60	2.88%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	9.20B	-	3.14	0.19	2.51%
Firstbank Corporation	FBMI	109.16M	11.69	0.82	1.74	1.77%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	4.19B	-	0.87	1.60	1.55%
Scorpio Tankers Inc.	STNG	1.44B	-	0.65	10.97	1.13%
Ross Stores Inc.	ROST	14.06B	17.38	7.51	1.42	1.06%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.47B	11.59	1.25	0.92	1.00%
GAMCO Investors, Inc.	GBL	1.42B	19.48	4.02	4.06	0.36%
Gardner Denver Inc.	GDI	3.70B	14.65	2.53	1.64	0.27%
UniFirst Corp.	UNF	1.88B	17.49	1.96	1.44	0.16%

12 Safe Dividend Contenders With Low P/E Multiples

Dividend Contenders with low P/E and beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Safety and growth is a good combination but hard to find. 

Safe stocks don’t exist because with your shares you are a part of the business and must carry all fluctuations. But there are more or less risky businesses.

Growth is your wealth driver. A growing business is a good business and makes you richer when your company employs more people and generates higher sales and incomes over a couple of years. 

In order to realize a return you must care about the current price ratios. The price you pay for growth should be acceptable in order to make a good return. Normally you have to pay a higher P/E with bigger growth expectations.

Today I try to combine all three factors: Growth, Bargains and Safeness. I like to screen dividend growth stocks with 10 to 25 years of consecutive dividend growth by low P/E and beta ratios: The P/E should be under 15 and the beta ratio must below 0.5.

Twelve stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria of which three have a buy or better rating. Insurer, banks and telecom stocks are main contributors to the screen. Somehow strange - How banks fundamentals have changed over the recent years. They show low debt figures and good dividends but the banks in my screen are very low capitalized and have a greater risk.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 07, 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 March 07, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.04%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.77B	16.77	1.07	0.94	5.19%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.48B	15.78	1.60	1.55	4.63%
UIL Holdings Corporation	UIL	2.01B	19.64	1.81	1.35	4.36%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	935.75M	14.75	1.51	0.92	4.10%
TELUS Corporation	TU	22.68B	17.84	2.83	2.10	3.58%
SY Bancorp Inc.	SYBT	316.68M	12.30	1.57	3.64	3.52%
Kaydon Corporation	KDN	787.88M	614.00	2.36	1.67	3.26%
South Jersey Industries, Inc.	SJI	1.77B	16.22	2.49	2.50	3.17%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	9.51B	12.61	0.98	1.03	2.84%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	12.55B	29.23	1.98	1.23	2.50%
MTS Systems Corp.	MTSC	852.50M	17.49	3.56	1.55	2.21%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	12.61B	93.92	1.26	1.72	2.21%
Interpublic Group	IPG	5.36B	15.22	2.23	0.77	1.85%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	59.79M	96.50	1.60	2.90	1.55%
CBS Corporation	CBS	28.24B	18.10	2.77	2.00	1.07%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.	JJSF	1.34B	22.85	2.77	1.57	0.90%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.64B	30.80	3.76	5.20	0.81%
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	8.92B	30.51	3.91	2.21	0.79%
FedEx Corporation	FDX	33.93B	17.32	2.20	0.78	0.52%