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.

13 Highest Dividend Paying Diversified Utilities

Highest dividend paying diversified utilities originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". A safe and high income is a dream from most of us. For sure, safe and high incomes without any kind of risk are impossible but out there are still some sectors and industries with companies which have a high possibility to fulfill these items. Let me mention one thing: Safe dividends do not exist and a safe dividend is no growing dividend. If your income does not grow over the long-run, you will get poorer and poorer due to the inflation pressure.

Not enough, if your company does not hike prices and grow it will lose earnings and must cut dividends in the future. Growth is the key and not safe dividends. Today I like to scout the utility sector by the highest dividend paying opportunities. The sector is one of the smallest branched ones because of its five sub industries. I will focus on the diversified utility industry today which has already 24 stocks listed. The industry is the highest dividend paying industry (4.64 percent average yield) from the utility sector and also the biggest branch with a total market capitalization of $11.41 trillion.

Nearly all 22 companies from the diversified utility industry pay dividends. Linked is a small table with some fundamentals of the highest dividend paying stocks with a market capitalization of more than USD 2 billion. It’s always good to have a bigger stock with a diversified business model.

Thirteen diversified utilities fulfilled my criteria of which five have a current buy or better rating.

Best Utility Dividend Stock Picks For 2013

The utility sectors offers generally high dividend yields with value. The negative point is that the sector is very capital intensive and the growth potential is limited. However, I wanted to know what stocks are the best dividend stock buy picks for the next year. I screened all 123 listed utility stocks by the best ones for next year. My criteria are:

- Forward P/E under 15

- Past Sales growth recent 10 years over 5 percent

- Positive Earnings per share growth for the next five years

- Operating Margin over 10 percent

Twelve companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria. Eight of them have a buy or better rating. The mostly represented industry is the eclectic utility industry. I personally don’t own any utility stocks because I am a dividend growth investor. I always look for growing companies with strong brands and high abilities to expand aboard. Utilities don’t fulfill these criteria. So my main focus will be on the consumer sector.

Next Week's Cheapest Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 cheap price ratios (P/E below 15, P/S and P/B under 2) that have their ex date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on December 03 - 09, 2012. In total, 135 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 61 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.14%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding and cheapest ex-dividend stocks for next week:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd.	BOX	372.73M	8.02	1.51	1.92	6.53%
PPL Corporation	PPL	17.02B	10.52	1.52	1.28	4.91%
Public Service Enterprise Group	PEG	15.22B	10.82	1.41	1.52	4.72%
Westar Energy, Inc.	WR	3.63B	14.72	1.26	1.63	4.60%
Gannett Co., Inc.	GCI	4.11B	9.73	1.69	0.79	4.47%
American National Insurance Co.	ANAT	1.85B	10.21	0.48	0.62	4.46%
Tower Group Inc.	TWGP	648.62M	12.25	0.61	0.34	4.44%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.04B	14.90	1.49	1.48	4.27%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	918.01M	14.54	1.53	0.82	4.18%
Kronos Worldwide Inc.	KRO	1.87B	5.79	1.67	0.93	3.72%
Miller Industries Inc.	MLR	158.30M	13.12	1.02	0.43	3.64%
ManTech International	MANT	924.26M	8.76	0.81	0.35	3.36%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	7.97B	11.46	0.81	0.89	3.09%
SLM Corporation	SLM	7.65B	7.63	1.55	1.20	3.02%
Chicago Rivet & Machine Co.	CVR	19.59M	11.95	0.85	0.59	2.97%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	10.47B	10.26	1.72	0.55	2.87%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	27.01B	10.12	1.04	1.05	2.60%
Acme United Corp.	ACU	34.27M	10.20	1.13	0.42	2.54%
The Men's Wearhouse, Inc.	MW	1.65B	13.75	1.56	0.69	2.22%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	16.97B	7.37	0.74	0.28	2.06%