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

In total, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.85%. 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
Calamos Convertible & High Income Fund	CHY	879.48M	7.26	0.90	11.54	8.37%
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	812.21M	11.20	1.88	8.04	7.33%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	7.97B	-	1.25	1.25	4.87%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	2.31B	-	2.31	2.45	4.62%
Gold Resource Corp	GORO	432.04M	20.27	5.07	3.23	4.44%
Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania	UVSP	318.56M	15.14	1.14	4.04	4.19%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	1.13B	16.07	1.04	1.09	3.93%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	1.10B	-	1.53	4.10	3.73%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.61B	12.36	1.92	0.60	2.65%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	42.67B	-	1.73	0.38	2.62%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.61B	16.43	2.43	0.99	2.58%
Rockwood Holdings, Inc.	ROC	4.93B	53.75	3.60	1.49	2.50%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	732.24M	17.90	1.03	0.63	2.21%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.74B	22.62	3.05	1.31	1.93%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	12.08B	20.72	4.67	2.71	1.06%
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.	FOXA	74.16B	11.02	4.36	2.68	0.78%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	46.56B	27.44	2.10	3.29	0.78%
DaVita, Inc.	DVA	11.70B	20.17	2.84	1.16	-

20 Dividend Champions With Highest Cash Distribution Growth Rates Over The Short-Run

Dividend Champions with the fastest short-term dividend growth originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A growing dividend is normally a good sign for investors. The corporate shows two characteristics to their owners: Strength and power of a healthy and growing business.

The rate of dividend growth is in this context a great measure to judge the success of a business. A company with a 20 percent dividend growth rate must have a stronger growing underlying business than a corporate with a 3 percent growing dividend. The future looks rosy and the management team is more optimistic to share profits of the company at a high level.

Firms that hike dividends faster than inflation, deliver accelerated growth or maintain growth at a high level, can pass returns to shareholders.

Today I would like to present you the 20 fastest growing dividends from the Dividend Champions list over the short-run. 105 companies are part of the list which is a compilation of stocks with over 25 years of consecutive dividend growth.

And the winners are: Services and industrials. No other sectors have more constituents on the list. It was the best place to be in the past to gain a higher dividend. This is not equal to return or profits.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 06, 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, 50 stocks go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.70%. 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
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	5.63B	-	1.33	3.08	12.77%
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.61B	-	1.09	1.03	5.83%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.08B	17.36	5.12	3.16	5.28%
PPL Corporation	PPL	18.12B	12.39	1.66	1.57	4.79%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.57B	13.79	1.46	1.46	4.32%
TELUS Corporation	TU	21.39B	17.54	3.01	2.01	3.93%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	7.55B	16.69	5.97	2.60	2.89%
Occidental Petroleum	OXY	72.26B	16.38	1.73	2.99	2.85%
Harris Corp.	HRS	6.28B	14.06	4.02	1.23	2.54%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	30.47B	10.47	1.22	1.17	2.47%
CME Group Inc.	CME	24.48B	26.30	1.12	8.50	2.44%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	12.64B	-	3.51	0.30	1.83%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.99B	19.10	4.05	1.91	1.81%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	26.17B	9.51	1.07	0.39	1.72%
Avnet Inc.	AVT	5.44B	12.32	1.27	0.21	1.51%
UMB Financial Corporation	UMBF	2.38B	21.29	1.94	7.01	1.44%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.58B	11.64	1.32	0.91	0.97%
CBS Corporation	CBS	33.25B	19.64	3.46	2.30	0.88%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	3.16B	17.89	0.69	0.72	0.84%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.54B	23.65	2.44	2.35	0.80%