Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 11, 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, 258 stocks go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.49%. 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
Valley National Bancorp	VLY	2.04B	14.45	1.34	3.22	6.34%
Digital Realty Trust Inc.	DLR	6.76B	36.58	2.37	4.78	5.92%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	3.06B	3.25	1.59	10.81	4.73%
Leggett & Platt	LEG	4.41B	17.58	3.09	1.18	3.97%
Validus Holdings, Ltd.	VR	3.65B	10.53	1.01	1.73	3.39%
Domtar Corporation	UFS	2.20B	28.60	0.83	0.41	3.34%
BRE Properties Inc.	BRE	3.88B	43.05	2.28	9.67	3.14%
Packaging Corp. of America	PKG	5.24B	23.44	4.99	1.74	2.94%
GATX Corp.	GMT	2.19B	15.33	1.80	1.72	2.63%
The Hanover Insurance Group	THG	2.23B	21.95	0.89	0.47	2.60%
XL Group plc	XL	8.75B	10.35	0.88	1.17	1.85%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.72B	24.30	4.78	1.55	1.82%
Worthington Industries, Inc.	WOR	2.36B	17.60	2.84	0.90	1.79%
First Horizon National	FHN	2.71B	18.54	1.26	3.53	1.77%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.10B	17.13	0.87	1.67	1.70%
URS Corporation	URS	3.74B	11.92	1.04	0.32	1.66%
Comerica Incorporated	CMA	7.55B	15.01	1.09	4.18	1.65%
Albemarle Corp.	ALB	5.23B	17.52	3.86	1.99	1.54%
Service Corp. International	SCI	3.87B	25.03	2.76	1.56	1.53%
Alcoa, Inc.	AA	8.64B	80.80	0.68	0.37	1.49%

David Einhorn's Latest Portfolio Dividend Stock Changes | Greenlight Capital

Latest stock purchases and sales from David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. David Einhorn has around USD 5.3 billion in assets under management in his asset management company Greenlight Capital. Last Quarter he made 28 transactions and bought 7 new stakes. His portfolio has only 30 stock holdings.

In this article I would like to present you the best dividend stocks, bought and sold by David Einhorn. From his nine stock and ETF purchases pay six a dividend. All of the latest dividend buys from David Einhorn yielding between .13 percent and 1.92 percent. David is no long-term dividend player. He wants a quick total return. The most important buys were ING US, Liberty Global and Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF.

On the short side, he reduced or sold out 19 stocks. 15 of them pay a dividend. The biggest impact had Cigna, Seagate Technology and Microsoft with around 3 percent impact to his portfolio.

Apple remains the biggest stock holding bet. The stake has a value of around one billion dollar. The second biggest position of David Einhorn is the car company General Motors which represents around 10.7 percent of his total portfolio. The third biggest company is the technology stock Marvell with a 9.7 percent share. Both are worth over USD 500 million.