Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 17, 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 July 17, 2013. In total, 12 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.65%.

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Himax Technologies, Inc.	HIMX	1.03B	20.07	2.41	1.39	4.15%
Comtech Telecommunications	CMTL	464.29M	26.43	1.15	1.33	3.96%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	67.11M	10.97	1.06	0.49	3.24%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	2.43B	20.68	5.33	0.91	2.94%
A. Schulman, Inc.	SHLM	831.69M	18.54	1.60	0.39	2.75%
Luxfer Holdings PLC	LXFR	332.00M	7.00	4.09	0.62	2.41%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.58B	14.00	2.25	0.89	2.16%
Resource America, Inc.	REXI	176.09M	6.78	1.21	2.84	1.37%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	1.12B	41.56	4.76	1.30	1.07%
Bon-Ton Stores Inc.	BONT	383.83M	-	4.53	0.13	0.98%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.85B	49.22	2.10	1.83	0.82%

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-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 April 15 - 21, 2013. In total, 37 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 14 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.60%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.08B	8.75	1.67	11.89	6.00%
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.	VIV	29.99B	13.59	1.35	1.78	5.78%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	5.25B	34.93	1.86	8.15	5.58%
Vale S.A.	VALE	89.97B	12.66	1.21	1.89	4.46%
Comtech Telecommunications	CMTL	415.29M	21.10	1.00	1.10	4.46%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.33B	27.67	2.87	14.12	4.28%
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	QCOR	1.65B	8.94	10.24	3.25	3.54%
PNM Resources, Inc.	PNM	1.89B	18.09	1.17	1.41	2.78%
US Ecology, Inc.	ECOL	483.37M	18.76	4.30	2.86	2.74%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	10.53B	14.33	2.70	2.54	2.72%
Xyratex Ltd.	XRTX	304.79M	18.49	0.80	0.26	2.66%
Luxfer Holdings PLC	LXFR	837.00M	6.54	3.82	1.57	2.45%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	1.97B	17.54	4.52	0.75	2.42%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.18B	13.38	2.18	0.84	2.32%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	55.29B	22.98	25.35	3.24	2.30%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	10.84B	21.89	3.70	1.30	1.66%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	71.42B	18.92	1.88	0.58	1.56%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	2.20B	27.60	2.99	1.73	1.20%
Apache Corp.	APA	29.42B	15.42	0.94	1.72	1.07%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	952.34M	28.68	4.18	1.16	1.05%

19 Stocks Hiked Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 19 companies increased its dividend payments last week and additional 7 other vehicles like funds boosted dividends to new levels.

The retailer TJX Companies is a popular name on the list. The company announced to raise dividends by 26.1 percent. Another big player is the financial services group PNC who operates money center banks within the states. PNC Financial Services announced to raise its dividends by 10 percent.  

In total, 26 stocks and fund vehicles increased its dividend payments last week of which six are High-Yields and 10 are currently recommended to buy. The average dividend growth amounts to 16.83 percent.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 16, 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 January 16, 2013. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	144.36M	13.13	0.92	5.80	9.14%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	8.96	1.83	12.06	5.63%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	74.80M	9.65	1.14	0.49	4.73%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	1.54B	14.95	3.82	0.59	3.08%
Commercial Metals Company	CMC	1.83B	13.76	1.40	0.24	3.06%
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad	EOC	13.62B	19.09	2.58	2.72	2.99%
Enersis S.A.	ENI	12.21B	17.81	1.51	0.87	2.94%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.01B	13.69	2.19	0.84	2.16%
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.	OZRK	1.20B	16.27	2.50	5.99	1.74%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	1.88B	24.69	2.62	1.51	1.38%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	826.01M	24.92	3.64	1.01	1.20%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	16.54B	35.38	4.35	1.41	0.90%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.93B	-	2.02	1.88	0.82%