Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 August 12, 2013. In total, 22 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.74%.

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	774.72M	8.11	1.81	7.49	17.52%
SandRidge Mississippian Trust I	SDT	401.80M	5.04	1.58	4.71	17.00%
SandRidge Permian Trust	PER	827.93M	6.57	1.72	6.06	14.84%
TECO Energy, Inc.	TE	3.85B	16.88	1.67	1.31	4.92%
United Online, Inc.	UNTD	776.04M	105.00	1.67	0.90	4.76%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	17.75B	16.97	1.49	1.44	4.06%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	4.65B	-	3.24	9.37	3.58%
Wisconsin Energy Corp.	WEC	9.94B	18.28	2.37	2.26	3.52%
Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc.	SASR	614.46M	14.06	1.27	4.21	2.60%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	20.11B	7.36	1.10	0.15	2.16%
Protective Life Corp.	PL	3.44B	12.63	0.76	0.95	1.84%
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.	FDP	1.70B	14.03	0.93	0.49	1.70%
Micrel Inc.	MCRL	599.60M	54.16	2.61	2.41	1.65%
Pool Corp.	POOL	2.50B	30.84	7.22	1.25	1.42%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	10.64B	24.55	2.27	4.24	1.36%
United States Steel Corp.	X	2.61B	-	0.75	0.14	1.11%
Home Bancshares, Inc.	HOMB	1.53B	22.49	2.87	8.26	1.10%
Carriage Services Inc.	CSV	326.32M	28.11	2.32	1.55	0.56%

High Yields From The S&P 500 And Which Are Highly Recommended

High Yields from the S&P 500 and the best buy ratings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". It’s good to have stocks with dividends. Dividends give you a passive income and improve your quality of life. Some of you don’t have enough money to live off dividends and they try to close the gap by choosing only High-Yields.

The higher the yield of a stock, the less capital you need for an acceptable return. But High-Yields often have the problem that they are not sustainable, especially when the market capitalization is low and the debt high.

We’ve seen this problem with Pitney Bowes, a very popular Dividend Aristocrat who yielded for months over 10 percent until they decided to reduce the dividend distributions by a half. For sure, they still pay a good dividend but your passive income is now significant lower.

Today I like to show you the highest yielding stocks from the S&P 500 with their current ratings. Only 13 companies survived the strong market gain since the beginning of the year. Last year, the number of High-Yields within the popular index was over 20!

Below the top results are many telecom service companies as well as electric utilities. Five of the results have a current buy or better rating.

5 Stocks Paying Over 100 Years Cash | High Profile Dividend History

Now day’s experts are recommending those dividends paying stocks that consistently paid dividends during depressions, financial recessions, world wars, and other political and economic ruin.

Here are some high quality growth stocks to consider:

- Middlesex Water (NASDAQ: MSEX) is a water utility company. This company provides quality water and wastewater service to residents in parts of New Jersey and Delaware, and beyond. It works in two segments: regulated or non-regulated. Its regulated segment has contributed 90% of total revenue since December 31^st, 2011. In the parts of New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania its regulated segment collect, treat and distribute the water on a retail and wholesale residential, commercial, industrial and fire protection customers. The Non-Regulated segment consists of non-regulated segments contract services for the maintenance of municipal and private water and wastewater systems in New Jersey and Delaware.

·         Dividend paid since 1912.

·         Dividend yield is 3.9%.

·         The total value of the company in the stock market is 307.77 mn.

·         Price to earnings ratio is 21.77.

- H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) is commonly known as “Heinz”. This is famous for its "57 Varieties" slogan and its ketchup. This is a U.S. food processing company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company is widely engaged in manufacturing and marketing of food products throughout the world. This principally produces ketchups, condiments and sauces, frozen foods, soup, beans and pasta meal, infant nutrition and other food products. This has operated in five segments such as North American Consumer Products, Europe, Asia/Pacific, U.S. Foodservice and Rest of World.

·         Dividend paid since 1911.

·         Dividend yield is 3.7%.

·         The total value of the company in the stock market is 23.26 bn.

·         Price to earnings ratio is 22.28.

- MGE Energy (NASDAQ: MGE) is a holding company which is based in Madison. This is wholly own subsidiary of MGE energy. This works in five segments: Regulated electric utility operations, Regulated gas utility operations, Non-regulated energy operations, transmission investments and investing in companies and property that relate to the regulated operations and financing the regulated operations. Its primary asset is Madison Gas and Electric Co. (MGE), which are regulated utility providing natural gas and electric service and promoting economic development. In MGE Energy also includes MGE Power LLC, MGE Power West Campus, LLC, MGE Power Elm Road, LLC, MGE Transco Investment LLC, Central Wisconsin Development Corporation, MAGAEL, LLC, and MGE Construct LLC.

MGE generates and distributes electricity to 139,000 customers in Dane County. Purchases and distributes gas to 144,000 customers in seven south-central and western Wisconsin counties. At the end of 2011, MGE Energy's assets total nearly $1.5 billion.

·         Dividend paid since 1909.

·         Dividend yield is 3.3%.

·         The total value of the company in the stock market is 1.27 bn.

·         Price to earnings ratio is 19.75.

- Teco Energy (NYSE: TE) is also a holding company. This is a S&P 500 energy-related company based in Tampa, Florida. It electrical division provides retail electric service to more than 678,000 customers in West Central Florida with a net winter system generating capability of 4,684 megawatts. It regulated Florida operations of Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas, TECO Energy businesses are engaged in coal production in TECO Coal in Kentucky and Virginia and electric power generation and related businesses in TECO Guatemala. In 2000, TECO Energy was fined $3.5 million for making changes in emissions producing facilities without installing new updated pollution controls. In 2004 leads in coal and natural gases. In 2010 it will reduce nitrogen oxide emissions at the plant by approximately 85 percent from levels recorded in 1998.

·         Dividend paid since 1900.

·         Dividend yield is 4.6%.

·         The total value of the company in the stock market is 3.77 bn.

·         Price to earnings ratio is 15.24.

- Avista Corporation (NYSE: AVA) is an energy company. Its function is the generation, transmission and distribution of energy or other energy related businesses. AVA has two business segments: Avista Utilities and Ecova. The company is providing reliable and safe energy services to customers in eastern Washington, northern Idaho and parts of southern and eastern Oregon.

·              Dividend paid since 1899.

·              Dividend yield is 4.3%.

·              The total value of the company in the stock market is 1.58 bn.

·              Price to earnings ratio is 20.04.

For more stocks whose pay dividend, have a good dividend yield, good dividend history and strong market value you can visit the site http://www.dividendinvestor.com/

High-Yields: An Overview Of The Highest Dividend Paying Stocks From The S&P 500

High yielding stocks from the S&P 500 originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The Standard & Poor’s 500 is a major tool used by many meaningful investors. The index has over USD 5.58 trillion benchmarked, with index assets comprising approximately USD 1.31 trillion of this total. The index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy, capturing 75 percent coverage of U.S. equities.

Most of my investments come from the S&P 500. It’s still a big source for dividend stocks because 407 stocks (81.4 percent of the index member) pay dividends. I’ve often published lists of the highest yielding stocks, also from the S&P 500 but this list is getting smaller and smaller. 

As of now, only 14 companies have a yield over five percent; Four of them are currently recommended to buy. The strong increase of the broad market makes stocks more expensive and yields come down. I hope that the average yield of equities will not fall to a 1 percent or less rate. Linked is a small list of all High-Yield stocks from the S&P 500.

Best Yielding Dividend Challengers | 30 High-Yield Dividend Growth Stocks

Dividend Challengers with the highest dividend yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend Challengers are the third class of the best dividend growth stocks. They raised cash distributions to shareholders in form of dividends over a period between 5 and 10 years without a break.

Exactly 175 stocks raised dividends over this period. Today, I like to present the best yielding Challengers. The list below shows all High-Yield stocks. In total, there are 30 companies with a yield of more than 5 percent and nearly half of the results are recommended to buy.

Some Challengers have the potential to grow dividends to real Champions but most of them will fail over the next five or ten years. I personally would not use the dividend growth criteria as a big requirement. The biggest capital gains will be made with good growth picks. The payments will come from alone in the end.

High-Yield S&P 500 List | 6 With A Buy Rating

High-Yield stocks from the S&P 500 originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Investors like to make money with stocks. They want the best shares with a great possibility of a potential trading gain.

One strategy to follow is dividend investing. Dividend investors like me often sit on an asset and use the dividend payments as cash source for further investments. A stock with a 5 percent yield or more pays back your investment amount in 20 years.

Investing money into shares from the S&P could make it easier to reduce risks because the index has higher capitalized stocks with a normally broader diversified business model.

Today, I like to discover some of the highest yielding stocks from the S&P 500. The whole index has 500 companies compiled of which 21 have a yield over five percent. Six of the high yielding S&P 500 shares are currently recommended to buy.

12 Higher Capitalized Dividend Stocks Close To New 52-Week Lows

New Breakout Stocks By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Sometimes it makes sense to observe stocks with an ongoing sell-off. The background is to find stocks with a possible turnaround story and to bet on a strong bull race. Oversold stocks are often traded at new lows but they could recover in a fast way. If the company pays stable dividends, it should increase the expected total return for an investor. However, here is a current screen of best yielding stocks that are close to their 52-Week Lows (up to 3 percent). In order to eliminate stocks with higher risk, I screened only companies with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion. As a result, 12 stocks are near to their 52-Week Lows of which six have a yield over three percent and five are recommended to buy.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On November 08, 2012

The Best 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.04%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Intersil Corporation	ISIL	982.44M	110.00	0.95	1.54	6.23%
Seaspan Corp.	SSW	1.06B	52.66	0.97	1.65	5.93%
TECO Energy, Inc.	TE	3.85B	15.12	1.68	1.26	4.93%
Hudson Valley Holding Corp.	HVB	322.29M	109.40	1.10	2.71	4.39%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	11.14B	15.32	5.79	1.78	2.38%
Richardson Electronics Ltd.	RELL	177.56M	25.07	0.92	1.17	2.08%
CNA Financial Corporation	CNA	7.89B	9.54	0.62	0.84	2.05%
Metals USA Holdings Corp.	MUSA	560.95M	8.54	1.82	0.28	1.59%
Altera Corp.	ALTR	10.21B	17.79	3.13	5.67	1.26%
Carriage Services Inc.	CSV	206.43M	27.21	1.57	1.04	0.87%
Landstar System Inc.	LSTR	2.42B	18.96	6.50	0.86	0.46%