Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 03, 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 03, 2013. In total, 5 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.93%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
The First Bancorp, Inc.	FNLC	172.90M	14.48	1.12	3.39	4.45%
Universal Corp.	UVV	1.36B	12.51	1.30	0.55	3.43%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing	TSM	95.67B	16.62	3.77	5.37	2.17%
Shoe Carnival Inc.	SCVL	477.25M	17.65	1.59	0.55	1.00%
HEICO Corp.	HEI	2.72B	30.19	4.95	2.95	0.27%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 10, 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 10, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.52%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	3.39B	11.40	1.02	6.80	9.30%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	24.46B	-	2.15	0.78	3.24%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	28.40B	11.01	1.96	1.51	2.40%
WD-40 Company	WDFC	829.76M	21.45	4.47	2.35	2.33%
Methode Electronics Inc.	MEI	488.82M	13.74	1.73	0.98	2.12%
Accenture plc	ACN	53.13B	19.48	9.12	1.78	2.12%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	30.35B	19.92	14.12	2.23	1.99%
Center Bancorp Inc.	CNBC	199.47M	11.62	1.24	3.61	1.80%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	3.96B	18.74	3.00	1.10	1.72%
Shoe Carnival Inc.	SCVL	417.18M	14.18	1.34	0.50	1.18%
Compania Cervecerias Unidas	CCU	5.18B	18.06	4.96	2.42	1.02%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	15.52B	31.60	4.38	1.28	0.96%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.13B	32.06	4.31	4.75	0.74%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.19B	25.42	3.30	4.07	0.54%

14 Stocks And 6 Funds Hiked Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

Last week was an additional week where 20 stocks announced to raise dividends. MFA Financial, is on the list with a 10 percent hike. Other big companies are Cisco, the company which handles traffic on the internet. Cisco raised its dividends by 21.4 percent and is definitely my top pick from the results. Five stocks are debt-free and additional five have a low debt ratio.

In total, 20 funds and stocks increased its dividend payments last week of which five are high-yields and 10 are recommended to buy. The average dividend growth amounts to 71.91 percent.