4 Most Hated Dividend Stocks You Should Know Before You Invest

Shorting stocks is always risky for investors. But it can be a sure way to avoid burning cash when a company's shares crash, making it worth the bet.

Well, it’s not the classic way for dividend growth investors. I've looked at my dividend growth database and noticed that most of the stocks have a low short interest rate and float short.

Today I like to give you an overview what kind of stocks have the highest share of short sellers in their shareholder structure.

These are the 4 highest shorted dividend stocks with a float short of 40 percent or more....

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 30, 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 July 30, 2013. In total, 42 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Realty Income Corp.	O	8.66B	62.39	1.94	14.31	4.92%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	41.57B	11.01	1.60	3.18	4.45%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.77B	20.86	1.02	4.72	4.27%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	4.18B	41.85	4.65	0.98	3.96%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.55B	15.74	1.63	1.95	3.65%
Paychex, Inc.	PAYX	14.32B	25.17	8.08	6.16	3.57%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.14B	19.30	4.21	1.51	3.40%
MeadWestvaco Corporation	MWV	6.41B	37.09	1.91	1.17	2.75%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	22.41B	11.90	1.67	2.25	1.90%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	8.94B	13.11	0.93	1.03	1.73%
Advanced Semiconductor	ASX	6.16B	14.03	1.64	0.92	1.72%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	23.29B	20.13	1.35	1.19	1.59%
CARBO Ceramics Inc.	CRR	2.02B	26.21	2.77	3.34	1.36%
The AES Corporation	AES	9.30B	-	2.01	0.52	1.28%
First Republic Bank	FRC	5.59B	13.75	1.80	4.26	1.13%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.57B	23.47	4.27	0.35	1.07%
Aon Corporation	AON	21.41B	21.64	2.83	1.84	1.04%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.22B	32.72	21.43	3.47	0.85%

34 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week | 24 Shares Have A Buy Rating

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 34 stocks announced a dividend hike last week. That’s a pretty increase compared to the recent weeks with only around 10 dividend hikers. We come back to old strength.

The biggest names on the list are the Brazil bank Itau Unibanco Holding, the oil and gas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan as well as the healthcare medical equipment stock Covidien.

24 of the dividend growth stocks from last week have a current buy or better rating and 10 are valuated with a P/E below 15.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 19, 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 July 19, 2013. In total, 4 stocks go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.25B	26.27	2.92	12.90	4.51%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	54.66B	23.82	30.88	3.18	2.33%
ACE Limited	ACE	32.11B	12.05	1.15	1.78	2.16%
Cantel Medical Corp.	CMN	684.35M	18.16	2.22	1.67	0.28%

Yesterday's Dividend Growth Stocks:

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
CARBO Ceramics	2.86	11.11%	Quarterly	7/30/2013	8/15/2013
Healthcare Services Group	3.86	0.75%	Quarterly	8/14/2013	9/20/2013
Omega Hlthcare Investors	4.86	2.17%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Penske Automotive	5.86	6.67%	Quarterly	8/8/2013	9/3/2013
Targa Resources	6.86	7.58%	Quarterly	7/25/2013	8/15/2013
Targa Resources Partners	7.86	2.51%	Quarterly	7/25/2013	8/14/2013

100 Best Small Cap Stocks To Place Your Money

Small cap stocks with a strong growth and best dividends to buy, originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Everybody loves growth. If you own an investment and it starts to grow by double-digit rates over a few years, when the stock price explode and you feel like a bird in heaven. I felt a few times like this. But it is also necessary that you sell partly your position over the time. I personally reduce my stocks positions when they have doubled or more. Certainly you can’t get very rich with this rule but you hedge your stock gains and believe me by selling stocks with gains, nobody become poor.

I recently viewed a nice list at Forbes. The list was a research result of the 100 best small cap growth stocks in America. Stocks from the table are public and tradeable in America. They all have a total sales volume below the USD 1 billion mark and fantastic years of recent growth. As you can see at the list, the GDP growth is America is still weak but out there are still investment opportunities to discover.

I discovered the ten best dividend stocks from the small cap growth picks. I needed to screen more than 50 companies in order to find ten stocks with positive dividend payments. Most of the small cap growth stocks don’t pay dividends. But the debt situation is very comfortable. Most of them are free of debt and have bigger cash amounts to their balance sheets in order to finance future growth. The average stock grew in sales by 19 percent yearly. Earnings followd by 31 percent growth yearly and the average return on equity amounted to 20 percent. See the full list of the 100 best small cap growth stocks at the end of this post.

50 Stocks With The Best Dividend Growth In July 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, the 50 fastest dividend growth companies realized an average dividend growth of 89.54 percent. The average dividend yield of the stocks amounts to 4.86. The P/E ratio amounts to 22.69, P/B 3.97 and P/S finally 3.70.

Best Yielding Dividend Achievers List August 2011

Best Yielding Dividend Achievers List by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of stocks to be announced Dividend Achievers. A Dividend Achiever is a stock that has increased the annual dividend (regular dividend without special payments) every year for at least 10 years or more. Dividend Achievers are therefore stocks that summarize Dividend Champions / Dividend Aristocrats (+25 years) and Dividend Contenders (10-24 years). Dividend Challengers (5-9 years) are out of competition. The list is sorted alphabetically.

Here is the table with dividend, yield and growth figures:

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Ticker	Company	Dividend (Yield)
MMM	3M Co	$2.20 (2.80%)
ABT	Abbott Laboratories	$1.92 (3.80%)
ABM	ABM Industries, Inc.	$0.56 (2.90%)
AFL	AFLAC Inc.	$1.20 (3.40%)
APD	Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.	$2.32 (3.00%)
ALB	Albemarle Corp.	$0.66 (1.40%)
MO	Altria Group Inc	$1.52 (5.80%)
AWR	American States Water Co.	$1.12 (3.30%)
ATR	AptarGroup Inc.	$0.88 (1.90%)
WTR	Aqua America Inc	$0.66 (3.10%)
ADM	Archer Daniels Midland Co.	$0.64 (2.30%)
T	AT&T Inc	$1.72 (5.90%)
ATNI	Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc.	$0.88 (2.80%)
ATO	Atmos Energy Corp.	$1.36 (4.20%)
ADP	Automatic Data Processing Inc.	$1.44 (3.00%)
AVP	Avon Products, Inc.	$0.92 (4.30%)
BMI	Badger Meter, Inc.	$0.64 (2.00%)
BANF	BancFirst Corp. (Oklahoma City, Okla)	$1.00 (2.90%)
OZRK	Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.	$0.38 (1.80%)
BCR	Bard (C.R.), Inc.	$0.76 (0.80%)
BDX	Becton, Dickinson and Co.	$1.64 (2.10%)
BMS	Bemis Co Inc	$0.96 (3.30%)
BKH	Black Hills Corporation	$1.46 (5.00%)
BRC	Brady Corp.	$0.72 (2.80%)
BRO	Brown & Brown, Inc.	$0.32 (1.60%)
BF-B	Brown-Forman Corp.	$1.28 (1.80%)
BPL	Buckeye Partners, L.P.	$4.05 (6.70%)
CWT	California Water Service Group (DE)	$0.62 (3.40%)
CRR	Carbo Ceramics Inc.	$0.96 (0.70%)
CAH	Cardinal Health, Inc.	$0.86 (2.10%)
CSL	Carlisle Companies Inc.	$0.72 (2.00%)
CASY	Casey's General Stores, Inc.	$0.60 (1.40%)
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	$1.84 (2.20%)
CTL	CenturyLink, Inc.	$2.90 (8.40%)
CVX	Chevron Corporation	$3.12 (3.30%)
CB	Chubb Corp.	$1.56 (2.70%)
CHD	Church & Dwight Co., Inc.	$0.68 (1.60%)
CINF	Cincinnati Financial Corp.	$1.61 (6.10%)
CTAS	Cintas Corporation	$0.49 (1.60%)
CLC	Clarcor Inc.	$0.42 (1.00%)
CLX	Clorox Co.	$2.40 (3.60%)
KO	Coca-Cola Co (The)	$1.88 (2.80%)
CL	Colgate-Palmolive Co.	$2.32 (2.70%)
CBSH	Commerce Bancshares, Inc.	$0.92 (2.50%)
CBU	Community Bank System, Inc.	$1.04 (4.40%)
CTBI	Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.	$1.24 (5.00%)
COP	ConocoPhillips	$2.64 (4.10%)
ED	Consolidated Edison, Inc.	$2.40 (4.30%)
OFC	Corporate Office Properties Trust	$1.65 (6.60%)
CFR	Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.	$1.84 (3.80%)
DBD	Diebold, Inc.	$1.12 (4.30%)
DCI	Donaldson Co. Inc.	$0.60 (1.20%)
DOV	Dover Corp	$1.26 (2.40%)
EV	Eaton Vance Corp	$0.72 (3.20%)
ECL	Ecolab, Inc.	$0.70 (1.40%)
EMR	Emerson Electric Co.	$1.38 (3.10%)
EGN	Energen Corp.	$0.54 (1.20%)
EPD	Enterprise Products Partners L.P.	$2.42 (6.00%)
EOG	EOG Resources, Inc.	$0.64 (0.70%)
ERIE	Erie Indemnity Co.	$2.06 (2.90%)
ESS	Essex Property Trust, Inc.	$4.16 (3.10%)
EXPD	Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.	$0.50 (1.20%)
XOM	Exxon Mobil Corp.	$1.88 (2.60%)
FDS	FactSet Research Systems Inc.	$1.08 (1.30%)
FDO	Family Dollar Stores, Inc.	$0.72 (1.50%)
FAST	Fastenal Co.	$0.52 (1.70%)
FRT	Federal Realty Investment Trust (MD)	$2.76 (3.20%)
THFF	First Financial Corp. (IN)	$0.94 (3.20%)
FELE	Franklin Electric Co., Inc.	$0.54 (1.40%)
BEN	Franklin Resources, Inc.	$1.00 (0.90%)
FUL	Fuller (H.B.) Company	$0.30 (1.50%)
GD	General Dynamics Corp.	$1.88 (3.10%)
GPC	Genuine Parts Co.	$1.80 (3.50%)
GTY	Getty Realty Corp.	$1.92 (10.80%)
GRC	Gorman-Rupp Co.	$0.36 (1.30%)
GGG	Graco Inc.	$0.84 (2.30%)
GWW	Grainger (W.W.) Inc.	$2.64 (1.90%)
HGIC	Harleysville Group, Inc. (PA)	$1.52 (5.60%)
HSC	Harsco Corp.	$0.82 (3.90%)
HCC	HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc.	$0.58 (2.10%)
HCP	HCP, Inc.	$1.92 (5.50%)
HP	Helmerich & Payne, Inc.	$0.28 (0.50%)
HRL	Hormel Foods Corp.	$0.51 (1.90%)
HCBK	Hudson City Bancorp, Inc.	$0.32 (5.50%)
ITW	Illinois Tool Works, Inc.	$1.44 (3.30%)
IBM	International Business Machines Corp.	$3.00 (1.80%)
IRET	Investors Real Estate Trust	$0.69 (9.20%)
JKHY	Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.	$0.42 (1.50%)
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	$2.28 (3.50%)
KMB	Kimberly-Clark Corp.	$2.80 (4.20%)
KMP	Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.	$4.60 (6.80%)
LANC	Lancaster Colony Corp.	$1.32 (2.30%)
LEG	Leggett & Platt, Inc.	$1.12 (5.50%)
LLTC	Linear Technology Corp.	$0.96 (3.60%)
LOW	Lowe's Companies Inc	$0.56 (2.80%)
MATW	Matthews International Corp	$0.32 (1.10%)
MKC	McCormick & Co., Inc.	$1.12 (2.50%)
MCD	McDonald's Corp	$2.44 (2.80%)
MGRC	McGrath RentCorp	$0.92 (3.90%)
MHP	McGraw-Hill Cos., Inc. (The)	$1.00 (2.50%)
MDU	MDU Resources Group Inc.	$0.65 (3.20%)
MDT	Medtronic, Inc.	$0.97 (2.90%)
MCY	Mercury General Corp.	$2.40 (6.50%)
MDP	Meredith Corp.	$1.02 (4.30%)
VIVO	Meridian Bioscience Inc.	$0.76 (4.30%)
MGEE	MGE Energy Inc	$1.53 (3.70%)
MSEX	Middlesex Water Co.	$0.73 (4.20%)
MSA	Mine Safety Appliances Co	$1.04 (3.80%)
MUR	Murphy Oil Corp	$1.10 (2.30%)
NC	NACCO Industries Inc.	$2.13 (3.00%)
NFG	National Fuel Gas Co. (NJ)	$1.42 (2.50%)
NNN	National Retail Properties Inc	$1.54 (6.10%)
NJR	New Jersey Resources Corp	$1.44 (3.20%)
NEE	NextEra Energy, Inc.	$2.20 (4.00%)
NDSN	Nordson Corp.	$0.50 (1.30%)
NU	Northeast Utilities	$1.10 (3.20%)
NWN	Northwest Natural Gas Co.	$1.74 (3.90%)
NST	NSTAR	$1.70 (3.80%)
NUE	Nucor Corp.	$1.45 (4.40%)
ORI	Old Republic International Corp.	$0.70 (7.70%)
OMI	Owens & Minor, Inc.	$0.80 (2.90%)
PH	Parker Hannifin Corp.	$1.48 (2.20%)
PNR	Pentair, Inc.	$0.80 (2.50%)
PBCT	People's United Financial, Inc.	$0.63 (5.80%)
PEP	PepsiCo Inc.	$2.06 (3.30%)
PNY	Piedmont Natural Gas Co., Inc.	$1.16 (3.90%)
PBI	Pitney Bowes Inc	$1.48 (7.80%)
PAA	Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	$3.93 (6.70%)
PII	Polaris Industries Inc.	$1.80 (1.80%)
PPG	PPG Industries, Inc.	$2.28 (3.20%)
PPL	PPL Corp	$1.40 (5.00%)
PX	Praxair, Inc.	$2.00 (2.20%)
PG	Procter & Gamble Co.	$2.10 (3.40%)
PRSP	Prosperity Bancshares Inc.	$0.70 (2.00%)
STR	Questar Corp.	$0.61 (3.40%)
RAVN	Raven Industries, Inc.	$0.72 (1.40%)
O	Realty Income Corp.	$1.74 (5.20%)
RLI	RLI Corp.	$1.20 (2.00%)
CHRW	Robinson (C.H.) Worldwide, Inc.	$1.16 (1.70%)
ROP	Roper Industries, Inc	$0.44 (0.60%)
ROST	Ross Stores, Inc.	$0.88 (1.20%)
RPM	RPM International Inc (DE)	$0.84 (4.40%)
SCG	SCANA Corp.	$1.94 (5.00%)
SEIC	SEI Investments Co.	$0.24 (1.50%)
SHEN	Shenandoah Telecommunications Co.	$0.33 (2.50%)
SHW	Sherwin-Williams Co.	$1.46 (2.00%)
SIAL	Sigma-Aldrich Corp.	$0.72 (1.20%)
SJW	SJW Corp.	$0.69 (3.10%)
AOS	Smith (A.O.) Corp	$0.64 (1.80%)
SJM	Smucker (J.M.) Co.	$1.92 (2.80%)
SON	Sonoco Products Co.	$1.16 (4.00%)
SJI	South Jersey Industries, Inc.	$1.46 (3.00%)
SBSI	Southside Bancshares, Inc.	$0.72 (3.60%)
SFG	Stancorp Financial Group Inc	$0.86 (3.00%)
SWK	Stanley Black & Decker	$1.64 (2.80%)
SCL	Stepan Co.	$1.04 (1.40%)
SYK	Stryker Corp.	$0.72 (1.60%)
SPH	Suburban Propane Partners L.P.	$3.41 (7.30%)
SYY	Sysco Corp.	$1.04 (3.90%)
TROW	T Rowe Price Group Inc.	$1.24 (2.50%)
SKT	Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc.	$0.80 (3.00%)
TGT	Target Corp	$1.20 (2.40%)
TCLP	TC PipeLines, LP	$3.08 (7.50%)
TDS	Telephone & Data Systems	$0.47 (2.00%)
TNC	Tennant Co.	$0.68 (1.70%)
TJX	TJX Companies, Inc.	$0.76 (1.40%)
TR	Tootsie Roll Industries Inc	$0.32 (1.30%)
TRH	Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.	$0.88 (1.80%)
UGI	UGI Corp.	$1.04 (3.70%)
UMBF	UMB Financial Corp	$0.78 (2.10%)
UNS	UniSource Energy Corp.	$1.68 (4.60%)
UBSI	United Bankshares, Inc.	$1.20 (5.70%)
UTX	United Technologies Corp.	$1.92 (2.70%)
UVV	Universal Corp.	$1.92 (5.10%)
UFPI	Universal Forest Products Inc.	$0.40 (1.40%)
UHT	Universal Health Realty Income Trust	$2.42 (6.80%)
UBA	Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc	$0.98 (6.10%)
VAL	Valspar Corp.	$0.72 (2.40%)
VGR	Vector Group Ltd	$1.60 (8.80%)
VVC	Vectren Corp	$1.38 (5.20%)
VFC	VF Corp.	$2.52 (2.30%)
WPC	W.P. Carey & Co. LLC	$2.20 (5.60%)
WAG	Walgreen Co.	$0.90 (2.60%)
WMT	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	$1.46 (2.80%)
WRE	Washington Real Estate Investment Trust	$1.74 (5.90%)
WST	West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.	$0.68 (1.70%)
WABC	WestAmerica Bancorporation	$1.44 (3.60%)
WGL	WGL Holdings, Inc.	$1.55 (3.90%)
JW-A	Wiley (John) & Sons Inc.	$0.80 (1.80%)
Updated:
29-Aug-11

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