Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 11, 2012

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, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.17%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Escalade Inc.	ESCA	71.13M	-	0.92	0.50	6.04%
Gas Natural Inc.	EGAS	78.76M	30.35	1.04	0.88	5.74%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.36B	11.03	1.24	0.83	5.71%
Penns Woods Bancorp Inc.	PWOD	147.07M	10.38	1.57	3.96	4.91%
BankUnited, Inc.	BKU	2.18B	12.62	1.25	3.15	3.64%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	3.92B	30.53	1.43	0.97	3.32%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.26B	13.66	1.51	1.47	3.20%
Flexsteel Industries Inc.	FLXS	137.26M	10.25	0.97	0.38	3.06%
Utah Medical Products Inc.	UTMD	128.80M	13.21	2.65	3.09	2.80%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	4.71B	15.16	1.01	1.50	2.73%
Home Federal Bancorp Inc.	HOME	165.47M	56.90	0.90	3.13	2.11%
Synovus Financial Corp.	SNV	1.83B	29.12	0.64	1.77	1.72%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	4.31B	29.27	3.02	2.21	1.02%
Berry Petroleum Co.	BRY	1.78B	-	1.82	1.85	0.97%

The 6 Best Dividends On September 11, 2012

Here is a current overview of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over $2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. So if your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on September 11, 2012. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend. The average yield amounts to 5.04%.

The ex-dividend date is a major date related to the payment of dividends. If you purchase a stock on its ex-dividend date or later, you will not receive the next dividend payment. Instead, the seller gets the dividend. If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you get the dividend. It is important that your broker settles your trade before the ex-dividend date.

These are the results of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over $2 billion:

T. Rowe Price Group (TROW) has a market capitalization of $16.09 billion and operates within the Asset Management industry. These are the market ratios of the company: P/E Ratio: 21.49, Forward P/E Ratio: 17.37, P/S Ratio: 5.71, P/B Ratio: 4.40, Dividend Yield: 2.15%.

Ingersoll-Rand (IR) has a market capitalization of $14.22 billion and operates within the Diversified Machinery industry. These are the market ratios of the company: P/E Ratio: 18.16, Forward P/E Ratio: 12.74, P/S Ratio: 1.28, P/B Ratio: 1.95, Dividend Yield: 1.39%.

Franco-Nevada Corporation (FNV) has a market capitalization of $7.89 billion and operates within the Gold industry. These are the market ratios of the company: P/E Ratio: 320.29, Forward P/E Ratio: 42.87, P/S Ratio: 17.96, P/B Ratio: 2.57, Dividend Yield: 1.10%.

Marvell Technology Group (MRVL) has a market capitalization of $5.85 billion and operates within the Semiconductor and Integrated Circuits industry. These are the market ratios of the company: P/E Ratio: 13.61, Forward P/E Ratio: 9.44, P/S Ratio: 1.77, P/B Ratio: 1.22, Dividend Yield: 2.29%.

MDU Resources Group (MDU) has a market capitalization of $4.24 billion and operates within the General Building Materials industry. These are the market ratios of the company: P/E Ratio: 19.01, Forward P/E Ratio: 16.61, P/S Ratio: 1.05, P/B Ratio: 1.50, Dividend Yield: 2.99%.

Golar LNG (GLNG) has a market capitalization of $3.15 billion and operates within the Shipping industry. These are the market ratios of the company: P/E Ratio: 38.82, Forward P/E Ratio: 14.63, P/S Ratio: 9.04, P/B Ratio: 4.48, Dividend Yield: 4.08%.

100 Most Bought Stocks By Big Investment Gurus

Stocks With Recent Engagements By Investment Professionals Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment gurus are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management. They became popular by big returns and spectacular investment strategies. I talk about investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.

I made a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six month and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all bought 577 stocks within the past half year.

The top stocks are Google (GOOG) and Oracle (ORCL). The information internet provider was bought by seventeen investment gurus and the business software company by sixteen. Sixty percent of the ten biggest buys were made within the technology sector and forty within the financial sector. Below is a detailed overview of the best yielding dividend stocks that were bought by at least three stock market gurus.

David Einhorn - Greenlight Capital Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

David Einhorn - Greenlight Capital Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of David Einhorn’s - Greenlight Capital - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he manages 38 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 4,804,323,000.