Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 05, 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.

In total, 25 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.42%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Frontier Communications	FTR	4.34B	43.75	1.10	0.89	9.14%
SeaDrill Limited	SDRL	22.05B	9.92	2.97	4.56	7.49%
Tower Group Inc.	TWGP	643.23M	-	0.54	0.33	5.35%
REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP	RGC	2.79B	23.42	-	0.96	4.66%
Landauer Inc.	LDR	452.13M	-	7.44	3.06	4.59%
Westar Energy, Inc.	WR	3.88B	12.82	1.32	1.66	4.46%
Quad/Graphics, Inc.	QUAD	1.48B	90.29	1.29	0.34	3.80%
Ensco plc	ESV	12.57B	9.92	1.02	2.73	3.67%
SY Bancorp Inc.	SYBT	377.23M	14.13	1.71	4.39	3.01%
Kaydon Corporation	KDN	908.72M	-	2.68	1.97	2.80%
Coach, Inc.	COH	14.97B	14.73	6.21	2.95	2.54%
Lancaster Colony Corporation	LANC	1.94B	17.86	3.88	1.67	2.25%
First American Financial	FAF	2.34B	8.86	1.00	0.48	2.22%
Becton, Dickinson and Company	BDX	18.96B	17.47	4.02	2.39	2.03%
Albany International Corp.	AIN	1.02B	47.50	2.13	1.32	1.86%
Canadian National Railway	CNI	40.03B	16.83	3.64	4.15	1.72%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.66B	38.82	3.67	5.12	0.81%
State Bank Financial Corporation	STBZ	496.98M	91.59	1.17	3.05	0.77%
Fair Isaac Corp.	FICO	1.75B	21.54	3.40	2.37	0.16%

A full list of all stocks from September 05, 2013 can be found here: 5 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks On September 05, 2013.

20 Dividend Challengers With Fastest Growing Dividends

Dividend Challengers with fastest growing dividend payments originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I screened Dividend Champs with the fastest rate of dividend growth. Mc Donald’s was my best yielding pick. I noticed that the top 20 stocks had a 10 year dividend growth performance of remarkable 10 to 30 percent yearly but for most of them, the performance slowed within the recent years.

It’s not possible of any company to raise dividends at a very high rate over a longer period. It’s also not possible to raise dividend payments with a gaining momentum. Every company that does this must reduce its growth speed over the time.

Today, I like to introduce some of the fastest growing dividend payers that have raised their distributions at least for five consecutive years but less than ten years. Here, the best results have grown their dividend payments over the recent five years with a rate of 90 to 30 percent. That’s definitely a higher growth figure but as I told, very growth rate will come down.

Below the top results of my screen are eleven stocks with a buy or better rating. Three of them are High-Yields.

13 Dividend Challengers For Less Than Book Value

Cheap Dividend Challengers In Terms Of Price To Book Value Researched by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current overview of Dividend Challengers, stocks that have raised dividends for 5-9 consecutive years, with a price to book ratio below one. The ratio shows that the company is currently priced under the reproduction value. Cheap or not? To answer this question, we need additional ratios. The screen matched 13 stocks of which 3 yielding over 4 percent. American Equity Investment Holding (AEL) is the only stock with a strong buy recommendation.

Here are my favorite stocks:

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American Greetings (NYSE: AM) has a market capitalization of $528.00 million. The company employs 7,400 people, generates revenues of $1,592.57 million and has a net income of $87.02 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $215.75 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 13.55 percent (operating margin 10.97 percent and the net profit margin finally 5.46 percent).


The total debt representing 15.04 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 30.47 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 12.30 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.99. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.56 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 6.92, Price/Sales 0.31 and Price/Book ratio 0.73. Dividend Yield: 4.35 percent. The beta ratio is 1.74.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of American Greetings Corp. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from American Greetings Corp. (NYSE: AM) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of American Greetings Corp. (NYSE: AM) (Click to enlarge)

The Travelers Companies (NYSE: TRV) has a market capitalization of $24.51 billion. The company employs 32,000 people, generates revenues of $25,112.00 million and has a net income of $3,216.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $8,496.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 33.83 percent (operating margin 17.15 percent and the net profit margin finally 12.81 percent).


The total debt representing 6.29 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 25.95 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 12.09 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.78. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.41 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.69, Price/Sales 0.98 and Price/Book ratio 1.02. Dividend Yield: 2.76 percent. The beta ratio is 0.70.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of The Travelers Companie... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from The Travelers Companie... (NYSE: TRV) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of The Travelers Companie... (NYSE: TRV) (Click to enlarge)

National HealthCare Corp. (NYSEAMEX: NHC) has a market capitalization of $585.92 million. The company employs 12,760 people, generates revenues of $715.50 million and has a net income of $52.70 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $88.84 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 12.42 percent (operating margin 8.55 percent and the net profit margin finally 7.36 percent).


The total debt representing 1.21 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 1.78 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 11.80 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.99. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.10 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.61, Price/Sales 0.82 and Price/Book ratio 1.48. Dividend Yield: 2.83 percent. The beta ratio is 0.55.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of National HealthCare Corp. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from National HealthCare Corp. (NYSEAMEX: NHC) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of National HealthCare Corp. (NYSEAMEX: NHC) (Click to enlarge)

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

14 Dividend Challengers For Less Than Book Value

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 15.08 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 8.29. The dividend yield has a value of 2.63 percent. Price to book ratio is 0.80 and price to sales ratio 0.77. The operating margin amounts to 9.05 percent.

Related stock ticker symbols:

UCBA, CHEV, AM, TWGP, THG, ACI, LSBK, NHC, TRV, AFG, AIZ, VSEC, AEL

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