54 Stocks And 4 Funds With A Higher Dividend Payment

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I like it to see dividends grow. It’s a very good sign from the company to give money back to stockholders and share corporate profits.

For the time being, we are in a bullish market and the Federal Reserve is flooding the market with cheap money. These are the main forces for the strong stock market. But a growing dividend is not only a sign of a technical reaction, it’s much more. A dividend growth shows normally that the operating business runs well. Last week, 54 stocks and 4 additional funds announced a higher dividend payment. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 17.11 percent.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 14, 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 May 14, 2013. In total, 29 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA	PT	4.71B	16.41	1.49	0.55	13.52%
Buckeye Partners LP	BPL	7.09B	28.93	2.78	1.63	6.18%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	102.55B	17.35	2.20	2.78	5.99%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.69B	270.18	2.34	8.32	4.04%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.91B	-	1.99	5.31	3.70%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.37B	24.96	2.37	1.34	3.43%
American Campus Communities	ACC	4.72B	78.95	1.79	8.57	3.00%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	273.00B	16.85	3.56	3.59	2.81%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	22.45B	18.12	1.18	0.25	2.23%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.40	1.33	1.50	1.98%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	25.13B	7.45	2.11	0.29	1.81%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	80.04B	18.06	4.10	4.59	1.76%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.25B	60.03	1.99	14.65	1.69%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	2.04B	19.20	1.74	1.21	1.48%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	36.73B	19.98	10.07	1.42	1.14%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	5.13B	18.75	3.38	2.44	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	14.09B	90.32	6.62	10.79	0.12%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 14, 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 February 15, 2013. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.40%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.17B	24.37	2.51	12.71	4.86%
STMicroelectronics NV	STM	7.83B	-	1.23	0.92	3.95%
Landmark Bancorp Inc.	LARK	59.60M	9.91	0.95	2.66	3.72%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	9.51B	28.76	3.68	3.95	2.95%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	16.52B	229.50	2.28	1.89	2.61%
Target Corp.	TGT	40.80B	13.90	2.51	0.57	2.30%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.70B	13.71	-	1.56	1.95%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	5.53B	14.50	2.52	1.21	1.79%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	27.70B	8.23	2.41	0.34	1.71%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	10.43B	15.39	33.42	3.82	1.71%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	104.44B	19.37	3.01	2.47	1.59%
Walter Energy, Inc.	WLT	2.33B	-	2.04	0.89	1.34%
Plantronics, Inc.	PLT	1.73B	17.11	2.91	2.36	0.98%

Next Week's Best Yielding Large Cap Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between February 11 - 17, 2013. In total, 132 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 51 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Entergy Corporation	ETR	11.46B	16.28	1.21	1.11	5.15%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	217.29B	8.16	1.18	0.45	4.97%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	48.58B	21.90	1.19	2.81	4.43%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.53B	13.96	2.70	2.08	4.32%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	16.74B	15.00	1.30	1.37	4.23%
Spectra Energy Corp.	SE	19.32B	19.21	2.18	3.75	4.12%
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	59.13B	9.68	2.68	2.02	3.80%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	62.34B	14.68	3.74	2.76	3.65%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	44.29B	18.27	4.39	1.25	3.62%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	226.33B	9.49	1.70	0.94	3.11%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	35.85B	40.12	3.56	1.52	2.83%
International Paper Co.	IP	18.71B	25.06	2.97	0.67	2.82%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	39.13B	18.57	2.13	0.55	2.66%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	16.33B	226.83	2.25	1.87	2.65%
Boeing Co.	BA	57.73B	14.98	9.87	0.71	2.53%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	34.55B	17.92	5.26	5.17	2.35%
Target Corp.	TGT	40.67B	13.86	2.50	0.57	2.30%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	66.58B	15.72	3.44	3.86	2.17%
The Kroger Co.	KR	14.62B	20.74	3.86	0.16	2.13%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.39B	13.54	1.35	1.54	1.97%