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Best Dividend Paying Stocks | 20 Best Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares For Next Week

The Best Yielding 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 date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks between November 26 and December 02, 2012. In total, 269 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 110 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.67%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
National Grid plc
41.40B
11.33
2.86
1.92
5.47%
Sun Life Financial Inc.
16.41B
28.06
1.00
0.82
5.28%
Lorillard, Inc.
15.96B
14.76
-
2.44
5.03%
Lockheed Martin Corporation
29.72B
10.48
12.18
0.63
5.01%
Waste Management, Inc.
15.01B
17.49
2.39
1.10
4.39%
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.
26.20B
13.01
1.22
1.58
4.23%
Dominion Resources, Inc.
D
28.64B
24.21
2.39
2.19
4.21%
Northeast Utilities
11.84B
18.86
1.27
2.09
3.64%
NextEra Energy, Inc.
28.03B
13.07
1.79
1.90
3.57%
McDonald's Corp.
87.40B
16.39
6.29
3.19
3.54%
Mattel Inc.
12.65B
15.30
4.35
2.00
3.36%
Kellogg Company
K
19.81B
16.75
8.13
1.45
3.18%
BlackRock, Inc.
33.15B
15.21
1.34
3.67
3.07%
Cisco Systems, Inc.
99.90B
12.15
1.90
2.14
2.97%
CSX Corp.
20.33B
11.01
2.26
1.72
2.84%
M&T Bank Corporation
12.76B
15.55
1.28
4.38
2.81%
The Coca-Cola Company
170.12B
19.76
5.13
3.57
2.69%
Magna International, Inc.
10.64B
7.71
1.16
0.35
2.41%
Time Warner Cable Inc.
28.23B
13.48
3.73
1.35
2.39%
TE Connectivity Ltd.
15.00B
13.10
1.88
1.13

Buying Dividend Stocks Should Bring You Adequate Profits

Best Buying Dividend Stock Strategy Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Out there are so many stocks that investors can buy and many are very confused about the fundamentals and data overflow. They may ask themselves "what dividend stocks should I buy". You can follow so many stock buying approaches like the Dividend Aristocrats, or Dogs of the Dow Jones. You can follow ETFs or cover a simple index of dividend stocks to buy that have outperformed the market. Not all of these strategies are of success. Today, I like to show you what kind of profit you could make by buying dividend stocks and hold them over a very long period. I selected a portfolio of 24 best dividend paying stocks with a well diversified product portfolio. The portfolio was created by buyupside.com and is suitable for a conservative long-term investor. Here is the portfolio of the best dividend buying stock portfolio:

Portfolio Overview:


Best Dividend Buy Portfolio (Click to enlarge)

Over the past ten years, stocks from the portfolio grew in average by 148.48% including dividends. This represents an annulized return of 8.71%. Not much but enough for beating the inflation and to increase your private wealth. Below the the portfolio return chart over the recent ten years:


24 of the Best Dividend Paying Stock Portfolio (Click to enlarge)

Not all of the stocks have a buy or better recommendation for the time being. Only four companies of the best dividend paying stock portfolio are currently recommended. These are the results of dividend stocks to buy:

Chevron Corporation (CVX) has a market capitalization of $207.73 billion. The company generates revenue of $253.706 billion and has a net income of $27.008 billion. The firm’s EBITDA amounts to $60.545 billion. The EBITDA margin is 23.86% (operating margin 18.78% and net profit margin 10.65%).

The total debt represents 4.85% of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 8.36%. Last fiscal year, a return on equity of 23.75% was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $12.19. Last fiscal year, the company paid $3.09 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 8.68, Price/Sales 0.83 and Price/Book ratio 1.75. Dividend Yield: 3.35%. The beta ratio is 0.80.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has a market capitalization of $191.58 billion. The company generates revenue of $65.030 billion and has a net income of $9.672 billion. The firm’s EBITDA amounts to $15.993 billion. The EBITDA margin is 24.59% (operating margin 19.01% and net profit margin 14.87%).


The total debt represents 17.27% of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 34.39%. Last fiscal year, a return on equity of 17.02% was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.04. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.25 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 22.88, Price/Sales 2.98 and Price/Book ratio 3.36. Dividend Yield: 3.47%. The beta ratio is 0.55.

Northeast Utilities (NU) has a market capitalization of $12.00 billion. The company generates revenue of $4.465 billion and has a net income of $400.51 million. The firm’s EBITDA amounts to $1.096 billion. The EBITDA margin is 24.55% (operating margin 17.78% and net profit margin 8.97%).

The total debt represents 34.36% of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 130.20%. Last fiscal year, a return on equity of 10.09% was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.00. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.10 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.14, Price/Sales 2.70 and Price/Book ratio 1.69. Dividend Yield: 3.58%. The beta ratio is 0.48.


Northwest Natural Gas (NWN) has a market capitalization of $1.15 billion. The company generates revenue of $848.80 million and has a net income of $63.90 million. The firm’s EBITDA amounts to $214.85 million. The EBITDA margin is 25.31% (operating margin 17.06% and net profit margin 7.53%).

The total debt represents 29.98% of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 115.23%. Last fiscal year, a return on equity of 9.08% was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.26. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.75 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.00, Price/Sales 1.37 and Price/Book ratio 1.63. Dividend Yield: 4.19%. The beta ratio is 0.26.

Take a closer look at the current valuation of the best dividend paying stock portfolio. The average P/E is 19.12 and the dividend yield amounts to 4.26%.

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10 Large Cap Utilities With Highest Expected EPS Growth

Utilities With Highest Growth Forecasts And Positive Dividend Payments Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. A sector with high dividends and reliability dividend payments is the utility sector. If you look into this sector, you can find only 121 companies which have a summarized market capitalization of USD 21.89 billion. The average P/E of the sector amounts to 15.36 and the dividend yield is around 4.34 percent.

Utilities are often ex-growth and loaded with huge amounts of debt. There is very capital intensive and growth needs huge cash. I made a screen of the fastest growing stocks in terms of earnings per share over the mid-term (next five years). In addition I observed only those companies with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion and a positive dividend yield. Exactly 10 companies remained of which four are currently recommended to buy.

20 Biggest Dividend Payers From The Utility Sector

Largest Utility Dividend Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The utility sector offers a stable investment environment with high dividend yields and robust business models. Let’s take a look at the biggest dividend stocks.

The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 22.01 trillion and includes 119 stocks of which 104 pay dividends. I made a screen of the biggest dividend payer within the utility sector. Below the 20 biggest dividend stocks are 13 electric utilities; Two of them are high yields.

12 Best Dividend Paying Utilities To Consider

Best Dividend Paying Utilities Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The utility sector is a great investment field with fantastic value and sustainable high dividends. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 18.68 trillion and summarizes 117 companies. The average dividend yield amounts to 4.24 percent and the P/E ratio is 15.51.

In order to find the best dividend paying stocks within the sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than five percent and an operating margin over 20 percent. In order get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under one. Twelve utility companies remained of which nine yielding over three percent and eight are currently recommended to buy.