Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 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 April 29, 2013. In total, 38 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	5.44B	-	6.18	20.57	6.22%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.46B	18.26	0.86	4.36	4.87%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	40.42B	10.52	1.43	3.07	4.64%
Realty Income Corp.	O	8.86B	65.14	2.74	18.63	4.38%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	3.97B	40.13	4.34	0.98	4.06%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.68B	17.36	1.68	2.02	3.59%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.18B	18.88	4.09	1.51	3.35%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	10.79B	18.54	2.45	4.07	1.83%
City National Corp.	CYN	3.07B	14.79	1.20	3.45	1.75%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.63B	19.15	1.10	1.16	1.60%
Burger King Worldwide, Inc.	BKW	6.33B	54.73	5.39	3.22	1.33%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	9.04B	12.60	0.88	1.07	1.29%
First Republic Bank	FRC	4.89B	12.85	1.41	3.76	1.27%
The AES Corporation	AES	10.04B	-	2.20	0.55	1.19%
Brown & Brown Inc.	BRO	4.41B	22.88	2.37	3.58	1.17%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.26B	20.59	3.87	0.31	1.12%
Aon Corporation	AON	18.95B	20.50	2.46	1.65	1.03%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.77B	36.26	3.92	3.64	0.82%

13 Highest Dividend Paying Diversified Utilities

Highest dividend paying diversified utilities originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". A safe and high income is a dream from most of us. For sure, safe and high incomes without any kind of risk are impossible but out there are still some sectors and industries with companies which have a high possibility to fulfill these items. Let me mention one thing: Safe dividends do not exist and a safe dividend is no growing dividend. If your income does not grow over the long-run, you will get poorer and poorer due to the inflation pressure.

Not enough, if your company does not hike prices and grow it will lose earnings and must cut dividends in the future. Growth is the key and not safe dividends. Today I like to scout the utility sector by the highest dividend paying opportunities. The sector is one of the smallest branched ones because of its five sub industries. I will focus on the diversified utility industry today which has already 24 stocks listed. The industry is the highest dividend paying industry (4.64 percent average yield) from the utility sector and also the biggest branch with a total market capitalization of $11.41 trillion.

Nearly all 22 companies from the diversified utility industry pay dividends. Linked is a small table with some fundamentals of the highest dividend paying stocks with a market capitalization of more than USD 2 billion. It’s always good to have a bigger stock with a diversified business model.

Thirteen diversified utilities fulfilled my criteria of which five have a current buy or better rating.

12 Best Yielding Utilities With Double-Digit EPS Growth Potential

Utilities with best dividend yields and high earnings per share growth forecasts originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Utilities are well-known for its stability and high dividend payments but they offer also high debt and low growth rates. Sure, utilities can give you some kind of safeness but the only thing that let’s your wealth grow is growth.

Growth is very expensive within the utility sector and I am not sure how it works in the United States but in many countries on the world, utilities are regulated by the government, so they cannot increase prices how they like.
Utilities are essential supplier for basic consumptions products like electricity, water, garbage and so on. Prices should be low in order to realize an optimized prosperity of the nation. If prices are too high, the government will be changed at the next election.

For investors is this fact a very hard environment to make money. You can do it but it is much easier in other sectors. If you invest money in foreign utilities, you bet mainly on an inflation growth and a currency gain.
However, a high dividend is not the only solution of wealth. Growth is more important. I prefer low yielding stocks with no legislative rules and high growth. This will help me to grow faster than the inflation.

Today, I like to show you some of the best yielding utilities with the highest expected earnings per share growth for the next half-decade. From 123 listed utilities pay 107 a dividend but only for 12 companies, earnings per share is expected to grow yearly by more than 10 percent.

Gas utilities are the dominant players on my screening result - There are five stocks from the industry. It could be possible that analysts expecting lower gas prices for the mid-term due to the shale gas boom.

20 Stocks To Buy | The Most Recommended Utilities At The Market

Utilities with a buy or better rating originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some investors love utilities, others hate them. I am somewhere in the middle. I never invested money into the utility sector because I know that strong growth is nearly impossible at low investment cots. So you should not get a quick big return.

The only chance to make a little money is with time optimized stock trading. But that's to complicated for me and means hard work. I love it to buy some high-quality growth stocks to receive the dividends without keeping an eye on anything and having fun with my live.

The good thing on utilities is that they generate stable cash flows and they can use the incoming money to pay high dividends and repurchase own shares. I believe that it makes more sense to buy bonds of those companies because if the company jumps into trouble the dividend payments and share buyback programs will be reduced as first. The bondholders suffer at the end.

However, I like to show you today which utilities are the most recommended at the market. I made a small list of the 20 best stocks which excludes stocks with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion because I personally think the risk should be much higher as for mid-capitalized stocks.

Below the 20 hottest utilities are sixteen with a dividend; two are high-yields.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 30, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 30, 2012. In total, 46 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 22 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	3.93B	-	-	14.76	7.56%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	2.54B	36.36	2.73	0.73	5.91%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.27B	18.13	0.80	4.03	5.27%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	38.96B	10.53	1.38	2.82	4.85%
Realty Income Corp.	O	5.29B	46.60	2.16	11.39	4.59%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	5.79B	15.59	1.53	1.76	4.12%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	4.73B	13.93	3.10	1.14	3.96%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	22.47B	12.45	1.79	2.13	1.89%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	19.57B	17.16	1.09	1.18	1.65%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	5.00B	-	0.65	0.57	1.64%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	7.57B	9.57	1.27	0.92	1.20%
First Republic Bank	FRC	4.41B	13.01	1.46	3.54	1.17%
Aon Corporation	AON	17.36B	18.89	2.13	1.53	1.17%
Cooper Industries plc	CBE	11.74B	17.00	2.84	2.04	1.14%
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.	DO	9.73B	12.92	2.14	3.26	0.71%