Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 08, 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 March 08, 2013. In total, 5 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which none yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.15%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	245.47B	14.62	3.29	0.52	2.56%
Ingersoll-Rand Plc	IR	15.84B	16.24	2.21	1.13	1.57%
GAMCO Investors, Inc.	GBL	1.44B	18.97	4.37	4.19	0.37%
Virgin Media, Inc.	VMED	12.75B	3.55	2.66	2.07	0.34%
UniFirst Corp.	UNF	1.69B	16.94	1.82	1.33	0.18%

Stock Earnings Review For 2012/01/04

Earnings season continues and earnings releases still matter. Earnings are of a huge importance for stock investors. If they beat the expectations or disappoint, the market needs to correct the current valuation. Earnings are also a good indicator for the health of the whole economy, sector and industry. Here are the earnings highlights of the recent trading day:

Yesterday’s major earnings results in review

Mosaic (MOS) is acting within the “Specialty Chemicals” industry and has a market capitalization of 23.36 billion. Quarter sales of Mosaic grew 12.7% year-over-year. In addition, the company announced a quarter result of $1.40 per share. Analysts expected Mosaic to have an EPS of $1.28. A year ago, quarter earnings amounted to $1.01. For the full fiscal year EPS is expected to grow 204.03% percent and 15.10% for the upcoming 5-years. The stock price changed -0.55% and closed at $52.30.

Here are the current price ratios of the company:
P/E ratio: 8.52,
Price/Sales: 2.16,
Price/Book: 1.91,

6-Month Chart of Mosaic (Source: finance.yahoo.com)

Resources Connect (RECN) is acting within the “Management Services” industry and has a market capitalization of 486.64 million. Quarter sales of Resources Connect grew 4.7% year-over-year. In addition, the company announced a quarter result of $0.11 per share. Analysts expected Resources Connect to have an EPS of $0.12. A year ago, quarter earnings amounted to $0.09. For the full fiscal year EPS is expected to grow 308.84% percent and 15.00% for the upcoming 5-years. The stock price changed 0.27% and closed at $11.02.

Here are the current price ratios of the company:
P/E ratio: 19.33,
Price/Sales: 0.87,
Price/Book: 1.35,

6-Month Chart of Resources Connect (Source: finance.yahoo.com)

Sonic (SONC) is acting within the “Restaurants” industry and has a market capitalization of 417.30 million. Quarter sales of Sonic grew -.6% year-over-year. In addition, the company announced a quarter result of $0.09 per share. Analysts expected Sonic to have an EPS of $0.09. A year ago, quarter earnings amounted to $0.12. For the full fiscal year EPS is expected to grow -9.89% percent and 11.23% for the upcoming 5-years. The stock price changed -1.44% and closed at $6.85.

Here are the current price ratios of the company:
P/E ratio: 22.10,
Price/Sales: 0.76,
Price/Book: 8.25,

6-Month Chart of Sonic (Source: finance.yahoo.com)

Texas Industries (TXI) is acting within the “Cement” industry and has a market capitalization of 865.15 million. Quarter sales of Texas Industries grew 5.4% year-over-year. In addition, the company announced a quarter result of $-0.75 per share. Analysts expected Texas Industries to have an EPS of $-0.61. A year ago, quarter earnings amounted to $-0.40. For the full fiscal year EPS is expected to grow -66.58% percent and 10.67% for the upcoming 5-years. The stock price changed -1.65% and closed at $31.02.

Here are the current price ratios of the company:
P/E ratio: -,
Price/Sales: 1.37,
Price/Book: 1.26,

6-Month Chart of Texas Industries (Source: finance.yahoo.com)

UniFirst (UNF) is acting within the “Textile - Apparel Clothing” industry and has a market capitalization of 1.19 billion. Quarter sales of UniFirst grew 14.6% year-over-year. In addition, the company announced a quarter result of $1.30 per share. Analysts expected UniFirst to have an EPS of $1.07. A year ago, quarter earnings amounted to $1.20. For the full fiscal year EPS is expected to grow -2.38% percent and 5.25% for the upcoming 5-years. The stock price changed 3.09% and closed at $59.73.

Here are the current price ratios of the company:
P/E ratio: 15.51,
Price/Sales: 1.05,
Price/Book: 1.49,

6-Month Chart of UniFirst (Source: finance.yahoo.com)