Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 25, 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 February 25, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	429.61M	10.78	1.18	7.95	9.61%
Ambassadors Group Inc.	EPAX	79.64M	22.60	0.91	1.36	5.31%
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation	SIX	3.62B	41.90	4.13	3.40	5.30%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	16.96B	28.86	1.03	0.85	5.13%
Great Plains Energy	GXP	3.38B	16.93	0.99	1.46	3.95%
Sonoco Products Co.	SON	3.18B	17.75	2.09	0.67	3.80%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.75B	29.92	2.02	1.08	2.52%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.25B	13.85	2.45	1.54	1.97%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.62B	12.54	-	2.18	1.87%
Tower Financial Corporation	TOFC	60.27M	10.47	0.92	2.32	1.78%
Mesa Laboratories Inc.	MLAB	179.85M	21.90	3.58	4.12	1.05%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	686.78M	43.15	1.04	0.37	0.89%

Best Ex-Dividend Stock List For November 23, 2012

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 day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 23, 2012. In total, 10 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.05%. 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
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation	SIX	3.05B	35.33	3.48	2.87	6.29%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	192.85B	22.89	3.32	2.93	3.51%
KeyCorp	KEY	7.79B	9.48	0.76	2.87	2.40%
QAD Inc.	QADA	197.38M	22.00	3.27	0.79	2.30%
Hecla Mining Co.	HL	1.64B	52.09	1.43	4.77	1.57%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	1.56B	7.47	1.83	0.18	1.53%
IXYS Corp.	IXYS	262.85M	15.33	1.01	0.83	1.42%

50 Top Stocks With The Highest Dividend Growth In October 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy and they want to give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

In total, the 50 fastest dividend growth companies realized an average dividend growth of 73.09 percent. The average dividend yield of the stocks amounts to 3.29. The P/E ratio is 22.05, P/B 3.41 and P/S finally 4.51.

Five companies had a triple digit-growth and 48 announced a double-digit dividend increase.  90 percent of the ten highest dividend growth stocks came from the financial or services sector.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (October 22 – 28, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 74 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 31 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 49.89 percent. Exactly 25 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent (high yield); 39 above three percent. 38 are currently recommended to buy.

Visa (V) is the Large Cap stock with the highest dividend hike. The company announced to increase dividends by 50 percent, from 22 to 33 cents per share. The business service company is on a very good growth path. The company grew yearly by 25.53 percent over the recent five years in sales and 44.62 percent in earnings per share. At the current EPS-level, the payout ratio is expected at 18.4 percent. In addition, there is no long-term debt.

Another good Large Cap company with recent dividend growth is AFLAC (AFL). The company is also low leveraged and has a good long-term business growth. The recent dividend hike of 6.1 percent was not as high as it should be but still high enough to compensate inflation costs. The payout ratio at the new level amounts to 25.64 percent. Regard the low geographically diversification. The company is a big insurer in Japan. 77.46 percent of sales are generated in Asia/Pacific and 25.54 percent in Americas.

11 High Yield Stocks With Cheap Free Cash Flow Ratios

Cheap High Yield Stocks In Terms Of Free Cash Flow Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. High earnings are good but they are nothing worth if the company needs the money for investments, growth or debt reductions. A figure that measures the real income of the company is the free cash flow. The ratio shows the operating cash flow less changes in working capital and capital expenditures.

I screened the market by high yield stocks with a current cheap price to free cash flow ratio of less than 15. Out there are 59 companies with such a high yield and low price ratio but most the results are dominated by stocks with a lower capitalization. That’s why I screened only stocks with a market capitalization of more than USD 2 billion. Exactly eleven stocks remained or which seven are recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For February 28, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. 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 February 28, 2012. In total, 81 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 33 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13 percent.

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For Next Week (February 27 - March 04, 2012)

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading week. If your broker settles your trade before the ex-day, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 27 – March 04, 2012. In total, 230 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 85 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.77 percent.

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth February 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy. They give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business. In total, 77 stocks increased dividends of which 46 raised dividends by more than 10 percent.

The average dividend yield amounts to 3.05 percent and the dividend growth is 37.49.