Best Dividend Paying Stocks | Ex-Dividend November 26, 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 26, 2012. In total, 20 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.42%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited	VLCCF	134.42M	6.55	0.48	1.57	12.73%
STMicroelectronics NV	STM	5.38B	-	0.80	0.63	6.77%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	16.10B	27.52	0.98	0.80	5.38%
Waste Management	WM	14.90B	17.36	2.37	1.09	4.42%
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.	VIV	25.81B	12.81	1.20	1.56	4.30%
GameStop Corp.	GME	3.34B	-	1.56	0.38	3.69%
First of Long Island Corp.	FLIC	247.85M	12.32	1.21	3.20	3.62%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	12.45B	15.05	4.28	1.97	3.42%
Michael Baker Corporation	BKR	177.95M	21.44	0.78	0.29	3.04%
Calavo Growers Inc.	CVGW	361.17M	24.92	3.35	0.65	2.66%
Blackbaud Inc.	BLKB	984.94M	99.14	6.67	2.33	2.20%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.39B	12.23	-	2.00	2.00%
The McGraw-Hill Companies	MHP	14.26B	18.61	7.99	2.25	1.99%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	5.42B	6.84	0.80	1.10	1.83%
Tim Hortons Inc.	THI	7.21B	18.10	6.20	2.34	1.80%
Schweitzer-Mauduit International	SWM	1.13B	11.24	2.33	1.38	1.64%
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network	ANW	227.36M	18.77	0.47	0.03	0.82%
Griffin Land & Nurseries Inc.	GRIF	128.50M	138.89	1.22	3.15	0.80%
Boise Inc.	BZ	856.09M	16.08	1.08	0.34	-
Cimatron Ltd.	CIMT	39.99M	12.29	2.23	0.94	-

McDonald's (NYSE:MCD): Dividend Idea Of The Week - A Restaurant Leader With 3.55% Yield And 7.64% Upside Potential

Weekly Dividend Stock Ideas Researched by The Dividend Yield Weekly. Our weekly Dividend Idea is the leading restaurant operator and franchises company McDonald's (NYSE:MCD). McDonald's owns and franchises its restaurants all over the world. By the end of 2011, the company had 33,510 restaurants in 119 countries, of which 27,075 were operated by franchisees and 6,435 were operated by the company. McDonald’s menu includes hamburgers and cheeseburgers, Big Mac, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Filet-O-Fish, several chicken sandwiches, Chicken McNuggets, Snack Wraps, French fries, salads, oatmeal, shakes, McFlurry desserts, sundaes, soft serve cones, pies, soft drinks, coffee, McCafe beverages and other beverages. More on Reuters here. 

MCD operates a proven business model with a well diversifed global structure. The company is a strong established Dividend Champion and raised dividends over a period of 36 consecutive years with a double-digit long-term growth rate. Morningstar estimates the fair value of the company at $94.0, an upside potential of 7.64% compared to the previous close price of $87.33.

We like the strong brand and consumer focus of McDonald's. The huge cash flow of $7.1 billion allows the company to pay $2.6 billion dividends and to repurchase $3.0 billion own shares as of fiscal year 2011. Roughly $2.7 billion were used for CAPEX. 

12 Dividend Challengers With Huge Potential To Become A Dividend Hero

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In order to find the best dividend paying growth stocks from the investment class Dividend Challengers, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent as well an operating margin over 15 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.5. Twelve Dividend Challengersremained of which nine are currently recommended to buy.

13 Of The Best Dividend Paying Services Stocks (Strong Growing Stocks With Low Debt)

Best Services Dividend Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Stocks from the services sector are important for a consumer based economy like the United States Economy. At the capital markets are 899 stocks available with a relationship to service. The whole market capitalization of them amounts to USD 50.88 trillion. The average dividend yield has a value of 1.84 percent and the P/E ratio is 20.14.

In order to find the best dividend paying large cap growth stocks from the investment class, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent and an operating margin over 15 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.5. Finally, the market capitalization should be above USD 2 billion. Thirteen services stocks remained of which eleven are currently recommended to buy.

The Best Growing Foreign Dividend Stocks

Attractive Dividend Stocks From Overseas With Best Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Europe is on fire. Everybody is talking about the European debt crises and the slowing growth within the Euro Area. China and the other emerging markets are trying to manage a soft-landing. However, many stocks from abroad are still attractive although investors pull back money from these countries and invested it into US-Dollar vehicles. I screened stocks from overseas with a positive dividend yield, a low debt to equity ratio of less than 0.5 as well as earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent for the upcoming five years. In order reduce the results and to select those stocks with higher safeness, I listed all companies with a beta ratio below one and a market capitalization over USD 2 billion. Fourteen stocks remained of which twelve are currently recommended to buy.

The Best Dividend Paying Restaurant Operator

The Highest Yielding Stocks From The Restaurants Industry Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Food store concepts are interesting growth opportunities. If they also pay good dividends, they should be a part of your portfolio. I analyzed the restaurants industry by the best yielding operator. Nearly 50 companies are listed of which 16 pay dividends. The average industry yield amounts to 2.4 percent; price to earnings ratio is 21.4.