Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks July 11, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	1.48B	5.53	0.54	4.01	19.22%
Fifth Street Finance Corp.	FSC	1.14B	10.13	1.08	5.99	10.71%
Consolidated Communications	CNSL	723.46M	60.66	5.72	1.28	8.52%
Associated Estates Realty Corp.	AEC	818.46M	126.85	2.03	4.50	4.61%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	26.26B	9.00	1.46	1.46	4.52%
Mid-America Apartment Comm.	MAA	2.87B	42.41	3.08	5.59	4.10%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.86B	15.21	2.95	2.25	4.01%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	68.79B	12.78	23.29	3.71	3.69%
AuRico Gold Inc.	AUQ	1.18B	-	0.59	6.06	3.51%
City Holding Co.	CHCO	655.59M	17.36	1.79	5.57	3.49%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	4.74B	9.94	2.06	0.43	3.40%
Harsco Corporation	HSC	1.99B	-	2.42	0.66	3.32%
Rouse Properties, Inc.	RSE	999.96M	-	2.01	4.21	2.57%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.76B	-	1.09	1.03	1.66%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	54.50B	70.90	2.41	2.52	1.61%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.60B	15.91	8.12	2.30	1.47%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	2.82B	10.78	1.32	0.73	1.42%
Ryland Group Inc.	RYL	1.78B	30.31	3.29	1.21	0.31%

19 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats with low forward Price-to-earnings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Everybody talks about Dividend Aristocrats when discussing the best dividend growth stocks. Those companies have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The index has only 54 constituents. Normally, Dividend Aristocrats are highly valuated because of their high quality and low risk business models.

If you pay a big premium on your asset, you will not get a good return in the end. It’s very simple. All you need to do is to scout for attractive bargains at the capital market.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Aristocrats Index by the cheapest companies in terms of forward P/E. Only 19 stocks have a current forward P/E ratio below 15. Some of them have bigger amounts of debt and others are slow growing. However, nearly 70 percent of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

All members of the Dividend Aristocrats Index generated a positive year-to-date performance. It’s also a sign for the quality of the index. In average, they have a stock price performance of 16.03 percent. 1.02 percent points better than the broader S&P 500.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 10, 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 09, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.05%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.93B	10.10	0.90	5.88	10.76%
RAIT Financial Trust	RAS	449.70M	-	0.59	1.83	6.98%
Kayne Anderson Energy Development	KED	271.27M	11.04	1.10	25.12	6.81%
Ennis Inc.	EBF	478.06M	16.25	1.29	0.90	3.81%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.	POT	33.34B	15.73	3.19	4.03	3.63%
Bank of Kentucky Financial Corp.	BKYF	216.44M	12.37	1.25	3.69	2.35%
Center Bancorp Inc.	CNBC	222.33M	12.36	1.45	3.97	2.21%
Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc.	NECB	77.44M	-	0.74	3.93	1.91%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.98B	23.01	14.38	2.46	1.85%
AZZ Incorporated	AZZ	910.08M	15.47	2.63	1.45	1.57%
Methode Electronics Inc.	MEI	676.32M	16.90	2.34	1.30	1.55%
Oracle Corporation	ORCL	148.16B	14.00	3.32	3.98	1.52%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.69B	34.13	5.00	5.54	0.63%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.55B	25.33	3.32	4.16	0.52%
Advent Software, Inc.	ADVS	1.81B	53.40	5.55	4.96	-

Services Dividend Stocks With Highest Stock Performance - And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Services dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The more I discover the best performing stocks from the recent half year, the better the performance gets. 

Today I would like to discover stocks from the services sector with the highest year-to-date performance. The sector is the second best performer behind the healthcare segment but the performance is more unequal distributed: The best dividend stocks on the top 20 list have a price performance between 60 percent and 247 percent. Service is a place to be for investors.

In order to reduce some extraordinary companies and to get better results, I decided to exclude all stocks with a lower market capitalization (below USD 300 million). Small cap stocks have normally a higher performance ratio, also in this screen: More than half of the results have a market cap below a billion dollars. The average market cap of the top 20 stocks after my limit rule amounts to USD 2.6 billion.

Despite the strong stock price growth; twelve shares still have a buy or better rating. Broadcasting and TV companies are very hot and dominating the screening results. There is some rumor in the market about takeovers and mergers.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 09, 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 09, 2013. In total, 10 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.89%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Huntingdon Capital Corp	HCAP	166.59M	-	0.95	2.76	8.88%
Gold Resource Corp	GORO	440.40M	17.06	4.92	3.21	4.31%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	3.87B	19.39	7.00	3.22	2.48%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	6.79B	19.97	2.47	1.82	2.45%
Marsh & McLennan	MMC	22.44B	18.45	3.38	1.87	2.44%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	5.01B	54.14	1.60	11.62	2.11%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	3.84B	18.70	2.76	1.06	1.69%
Kadant Inc.	KAI	357.10M	12.64	1.44	1.10	1.56%
NetApp, Inc.	NTAP	13.90B	28.09	2.95	2.19	1.55%
Aetna Inc.	AET	20.50B	12.93	1.92	0.55	1.28%