20 Best Consumer Goods Stocks Beyond Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) is a titan of the household products industry. The company is nearly 200 years old, worth more than $200 billion, and owns well-known brand names such as Tide, Gillette, and Pampers.

But the company has struggled recently. It's sold off secondary brands like Duracell, Cover Girl, and Zest to cut costs and focus on its core brands. 

Moreover, the company's once-strong pipeline of innovation has yielded little success, and spending on R&D as a percentage of sales is lower than it's been in almost any point in the last 20 years.

The Crest-maker's sales have fallen as it has shed brands, struggled to grow domestic sales, and faced a strengthening dollar. The stock is up 12% this year, but the long term looks challenging.

Here are 20 similar stocks with better prospects than P&G.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 August 16, 2013. In total, 28 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Macerich Co.	MAC	8.25B	33.89	2.73	8.83	3.87%
Manulife Financial Corporation	MFC	32.88B	22.00	1.44	1.64	2.99%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	33.83B	83.02	1.57	1.69	2.74%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	4.28B	22.85	2.69	0.84	2.50%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.82B	22.23	2.52	0.67	2.50%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	6.95B	23.20	4.32	4.59	2.05%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	6.21B	15.02	2.69	1.37	2.01%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	65.65B	20.79	4.77	1.73	1.97%
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.	SPB	3.33B	-	3.71	0.88	1.56%
Bunge Limited	BG	11.51B	39.31	1.19	0.18	1.53%
Timken Co.	TKR	5.75B	18.56	2.49	1.30	1.53%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.56B	19.61	32.59	4.97	1.22%
The Babcock & Wilcox Company	BWC	3.45B	15.13	3.56	1.03	1.04%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.87B	21.00	2.70	1.51	0.76%
QEP Resources, Inc.	QEP	5.22B	35.49	1.53	1.94	0.27%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 12, 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 12, 2013. In total, 17 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Sandridge Mississippian Trust II	SDR	787.72M	13.31	1.76	12.70	15.09%
SandRidge Mississippian Trust I	SDT	505.12M	5.78	1.88	5.97	14.41%
United Online, Inc.	UNTD	586.82M	15.73	1.19	0.67	6.20%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	11.46B	13.54	1.25	1.11	5.15%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.23B	284.00	1.94	7.19	4.69%
Wisconsin Energy Corp.	WEC	9.22B	17.05	2.21	2.17	3.39%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	540.79M	15.55	1.01	3.46	3.30%
Wynn Resorts Ltd.	WYNN	12.76B	26.30	30.71	2.48	3.16%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.	BHLB	615.78M	16.37	0.93	3.50	2.91%
Somerset Hills Bancorp	SOMH	60.95M	18.02	1.46	4.62	2.82%
Matson, Inc.	MATX	1.12B	28.11	4.13	0.69	2.27%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	740.94M	18.45	1.36	3.30	2.13%
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.	SPB	2.86B	59.74	2.86	0.88	1.82%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.42B	23.91	5.85	7.15	1.37%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	7.92B	245.55	2.46	18.35	1.33%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	33.31B	19.36	9.62	1.34	1.01%
Lindsay Corporation	LNN	1.17B	21.30	3.60	2.02	0.50%