Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 138 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 52 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.10%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Total SA	TOT	121.70B	8.45	1.23	0.52	5.33%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	68.86B	16.63	21.96	2.80	5.14%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	35.64B	13.97	2.64	1.83	4.92%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.71B	14.61	2.81	2.19	4.13%
Encana Corporation	ECA	14.32B	-	2.71	2.78	4.11%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	131.96B	20.12	2.49	2.79	3.94%
Rogers Communications Inc.	RCI	25.15B	15.11	6.86	2.07	3.46%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	24.10B	25.13	2.53	1.47	2.94%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	175.19B	19.95	5.36	3.65	2.85%
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	104.46B	18.42	9.38	4.61	2.50%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	11.11B	6.51	1.83	0.55	2.20%
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	11.32B	21.13	1.69	1.95	2.08%
Macy's, Inc.	M	16.49B	12.72	2.67	0.60	1.92%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	22.36B	15.11	1.42	1.64	1.91%
Viacom, Inc.	VIAB	30.61B	14.59	4.29	2.31	1.78%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.	MSI	17.27B	20.85	5.38	1.98	1.66%
Eastman Chemical Co.	EMN	11.21B	23.94	3.71	1.38	1.65%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	13.62B	13.01	5.81	0.88	1.57%
Unitedhealth Group, Inc.	UNH	55.56B	10.27	1.77	0.50	1.57%
Devon Energy Corporation	DVN	22.72B	-	1.07	2.39	1.43%

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth In May 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy and they want to give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

In total, 35 companies announced a dividend growth of more than 10 percent within the recent month. The average dividend yield of the fastest dividend growth stocks from last month amounts to 3.33 percent and the dividend growth is 46.11 percent.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (May 21 – May 27, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 21 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 14 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 19.29 percent. Exactly four stocks have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.

Donald Yacktman - Yacktman Focused Q4-2011 Fund Portfolio

Donald Yacktman - Yacktman Focused Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Donald Yacktman’s - Yacktman Focused - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 39 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 3,821,410,000.

Strategy:

Yacktman Asset Management Co. is an investment advisory firm that has served long-term oriented investors since 1992. The organization is 100% internally owned and is investment adviser to The Yacktman Fund and The Yacktman Focused Fund as well as separate accounts for taxable and tax-exempt organizations.

The firm seeks to be objective, patient, and diligent in its investment approach. Yacktman Asset Management selects individual securities, analyzing investments from the bottom-up.

Donald Yacktman - Yacktman Focused’s fund positions as of Q4/2011 with actual share movements:

Sym - Stock	Portfolio Weight	Recent activity	Reported Price*
PEP - PepsiCo Inc.	12.5	Add 14.29%	$66.35
NWSA - News Corp.	12.09	Add 5.24%	$17.84
PG - Procter & Gamble	9.95	Add 8.57%	$66.71
MSFT - Microsoft Corp.	7.74	Add 24.59%	$25.96
BCR - Bard (C.R.) Inc.	4.92	Add 140.44%	$85.50
CSCO - Cisco Systems	4.78	Add 5.21%	$18.08
SYY - Sysco Corp.	3.84	Add 8.70%	$29.33
KO - Coca Cola Co.	3.59	0	$69.97
PFE - Pfizer Inc.	3.17	0	$21.64
USB - U.S. Bancorp	2.83	0	$27.05
VIA.B - Viacom Inc.	2.73	Add 21.05%	$45.41
JNJ - Johnson & Johnson	2.57	0	$65.58
AVP - Avon Products	2.42	Add 171.79%	$17.47
SYK - Stryker Corp.	2.41	Add 37.04%	$49.71
COP - ConocoPhillips	2.21	Add 9.43%	$72.87
HPQ - Hewlett-Packard	2.16	0	$25.76
APOL - Apollo Group	1.69	0	$53.87
CLX - Clorox Co.	1.65	Add 18.75%	$66.56
HRB - Block H&R	1.62	0	$16.33
WMT - Wal-Mart Stores	1.56	0	$59.76
BDX - Becton Dickinson	1.51	Add 67.39%	$74.72
CMCSA - Comcast Corp.	1.42	0	$23.56
GLW - Corning Inc.	1.29	Add 15.15%	$12.98
XOM - Exxon Mobil Corp.	1.22	0	$84.76
RIMM - Research In Motion Ltd.	1.2	Add 200.00%	$14.50
BK - Bank of New York	1.17	Add 25.00%	$19.91
COV - Covidien Plc.	0.94	Add 60.00%	$45.01
UNH - United Health Group Inc.	0.7	0	$50.68
GS - Goldman Sachs Group	0.59	Buy	$90.43
STT - State Street Corp.	0.58	Buy	$40.31
TYIDF - Toyota Industries Corp.	0.57	0	$27.23
NTRS - Northern Trust Corp.	0.57	Buy	$39.66
TSS - Total System Services	0.51	0	$19.56
CL - Colgate-Palmolive	0.48	0	$92.39
LINTA - Liberty Media Interactive	0.36	0	$16.22
PDCO - Patterson Cos. Inc.	0.33	Add 115.00%	$29.52
TBBK - The Bancorp Inc.	0.06	0	$7.23
REXI - Resource America Inc.	0.03	0	$4.76
NWS - News Corp. CL B	0.01	Buy	$18.16

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