Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 29, 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 May 29, 2013. In total, 110 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 37 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.06%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.63B	10.70	1.01	5.13	12.21%
TransAlta Corp.	TAC	3.89B	-	1.32	1.87	7.68%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	4.78B	21.54	3.85	5.11	6.68%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.66B	22.89	1.83	8.10	5.59%
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	16.58B	14.11	-	2.48	5.01%
Vermilion Energy Inc.	VET	5.13B	27.99	3.43	4.88	4.66%
Integrys Energy Group, Inc.	TEG	4.69B	12.54	1.44	1.01	4.59%
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	BIP	8.04B	85.07	1.53	4.01	4.49%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	19.18B	-	0.85	1.34	4.18%
Piedmont Office Realty Trust	PDM	3.37B	71.82	1.29	8.25	3.98%
Brookfield Office Properties Canada	BOXC	2.62B	-	3.04	4.95	3.89%
Bank of Hawaii Corporation	BOH	2.30B	14.57	2.24	5.61	3.51%
Northeast Utilities	NU	13.48B	20.60	1.42	1.88	3.43%
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.	CFR	3.86B	17.11	1.58	6.09	3.11%
Brookfield Properties Corporation	BPO	9.15B	8.55	0.79	3.88	3.09%
Perusahaan Perseroan	TLK	25.07B	18.16	4.16	3.18	3.06%
Harris Corp.	HRS	5.52B	10.79	3.29	1.06	2.94%
AVX Corp.	AVX	2.03B	-	1.03	1.43	2.91%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	27.65B	3.80	4.01	1.02	2.74%
Corning Inc.	GLW	23.10B	13.27	1.08	2.92	2.55%

13 Highest Dividend Paying Diversified Utilities

Highest dividend paying diversified utilities originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". A safe and high income is a dream from most of us. For sure, safe and high incomes without any kind of risk are impossible but out there are still some sectors and industries with companies which have a high possibility to fulfill these items. Let me mention one thing: Safe dividends do not exist and a safe dividend is no growing dividend. If your income does not grow over the long-run, you will get poorer and poorer due to the inflation pressure.

Not enough, if your company does not hike prices and grow it will lose earnings and must cut dividends in the future. Growth is the key and not safe dividends. Today I like to scout the utility sector by the highest dividend paying opportunities. The sector is one of the smallest branched ones because of its five sub industries. I will focus on the diversified utility industry today which has already 24 stocks listed. The industry is the highest dividend paying industry (4.64 percent average yield) from the utility sector and also the biggest branch with a total market capitalization of $11.41 trillion.

Nearly all 22 companies from the diversified utility industry pay dividends. Linked is a small table with some fundamentals of the highest dividend paying stocks with a market capitalization of more than USD 2 billion. It’s always good to have a bigger stock with a diversified business model.

Thirteen diversified utilities fulfilled my criteria of which five have a current buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 27, 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 27, 2013. In total, 91 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 32 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.03%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TransAlta Corp.	TAC	4.07B	-	1.36	1.81	7.25%
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	6.10B	14.52	-	0.92	5.39%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	28.44B	10.51	732.33	0.60	5.23%
Realty Income Corp.	O	7.94B	58.37	2.45	16.69	4.89%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.88B	21.48	1.37	2.05	3.58%
Brookfield Properties Corporation	BPO	8.39B	7.45	0.73	3.68	3.37%
NextEra Energy, Inc.	NEE	30.55B	15.73	1.90	2.14	3.32%
McDonald's Corp.	MCD	96.52B	17.94	6.95	3.50	3.20%
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.	CFR	3.69B	15.59	1.53	5.85	3.20%
SLM Corporation	SLM	8.67B	9.73	1.68	1.42	3.20%
The Wendy's Company	WEN	2.13B	-	1.08	0.85	2.94%
L-3 Communications Holdings	LLL	7.08B	9.41	1.31	0.54	2.92%
Pepsico, Inc.	PEP	116.00B	19.18	5.21	1.77	2.86%
Compass Minerals International	CMP	2.49B	28.16	4.93	2.65	2.64%
GATX Corp.	GMT	2.30B	16.98	1.85	1.85	2.53%
Sealed Air Corporation	SEE	4.10B	-	2.41	0.53	2.47%
CH Robinson Worldwide Inc.	CHRW	9.15B	15.47	6.08	0.81	2.47%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	15.66B	40.54	3.84	2.22	2.36%
Flowers Foods, Inc.	FLO	3.84B	3.99	4.48	1.26	2.30%
Associated Banc-Corp	ASBC	2.38B	14.03	0.82	3.31	2.26%