Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between January 21 - 27, 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between January 21 - 27, 2013. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.48%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons	RRD	1.71B	-	1.52	0.17	10.94%
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	762.66M	-	1.75	0.86	9.12%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	178.13M	10.25	1.01	9.92	7.52%
Government Properties Income	GOV	1.38B	23.83	1.37	6.68	6.81%
Franklin Street Properties	FSP	1.08B	48.15	1.23	6.85	5.85%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	8.56B	34.95	1.97	3.19	5.59%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares	NHTB	75.52M	10.85	0.67	2.08	4.06%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	90.07B	12.37	2.00	4.25	3.88%
Siemens AG	SI	97.76B	14.56	2.37	0.94	3.50%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	2.63B	25.47	2.84	0.79	3.26%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	51.51B	21.37	20.57	3.03	2.28%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	4.37B	18.65	3.59	1.12	1.97%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	14.61B	-	2.90	1.40	1.91%
Progressive Corp.	PGR	13.74B	15.25	2.10	0.84	1.79%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	64.97B	17.49	1.76	0.54	1.73%
Epoch Investment Partners	EPHC	663.51M	23.55	8.54	6.57	1.43%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	4.96B	15.21	2.31	1.30	0.78%
The Cooper Companies Inc.	COO	4.72B	19.24	2.15	3.27	0.06%

The Most Recommended Consumer Goods Stocks | 20 Dividend Stocks With Highest Buy Rating

Most recommended consumer goods dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to screen one of my favorite investment sectors, the consumer goods sector. I want to show you who are the best, higher yielding dividend stocks with a buy or better rating.

Stocks from the sector have a total market capitalization of USD 197.4 trillion. The average P/E is 21.58 and the dividend yield amounts to 3.28 percent. The highest yielding industries are still business equipments and cigarettes.

Cigarettes and tobacco companies have the highest share in my private portfolio. They represent around 25 percent of my assets and they are also one of my biggest dividend contributors over the year.

However, 396 stocks are available for trading with a relation to the consumer sector. 185 of them pay dividends and 123 have a current buy or better rating. Below is a small list of the 20 higher capitalized companies (over USD 2 billion) with the highest buy rating. Most of the results are low yielding but the expected growth rates for the next years look fantastic. Dare a glance and let me know in the comment area which of the stocks you like most.

20 Stocks With Yields Over 10% And Highest Buy Ratings

Most recommended stocks with very high yields originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love stocks with high dividend yields but there are only a few with sustainable payments. I think about Altria or Lorillard. Other stocks have a huge potential for a dividend cut, also if they are a Dividend Champion or a stock with a very long dividend growth history. I made this investment mistake with Avon Products. The company was highly leveraged and became some operations problems. Finally they reduced the dividend dramatically.

Most of the people need stocks with very high yields. I don’t because my private wealth is high enough to catch the dividend payments and live off it. In the past, I often thought it would be the only solution to put all my money into the highest yielding stocks with the most attractive fundamentals. This strategy failed and I lost much money within the closed-end shipping industry. That was a big mistake from which I learned and I like to share this with you.

Please don’t put all your money into one stock or make a single bet on a high-yield stock. This is very risky. That’s all I can say. Make a good research and try to avoid an overweighting of a stock or asset theme.

Each month, I made a regular screen about the stocks with the highest dividend yields because I believe there is a lot of value information in it for my readers. This month, I like to show you the 20 most recommended stocks with a double-digit dividend yield and a higher market capitalization (over USD 300 million). Out there are 95 companies with a very high yield but only 35 have a buy or better recommendation. The REIT industry is still a big player on my screen with 6 representatives.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 18, 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 January 18, 2013. In total, 4 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.86%.

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	1.11B	23.25	2.40	12.13	5.09%
The Clorox Company	CLX	9.94B	18.36	-	1.81	3.36%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	40.23B	21.29	2.83	0.79	1.79%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	1.87B	24.57	2.61	1.51	1.39%

13 Cheap High Yielding Stocks With Low Volatility

High yielding large capitalized stocks with low beta and cheap price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I often look for higher capitalized stocks which give me a margin of safety. I don’t talk about a discount to the fair value or cheap prices. I mean a low volatility stocks. Stocks with a low beta ratio have a lower volatility than the whole market but they also have a lower upside potential if the market goes up. I love low volatility stocks because I am like everybody else an anxious investor when I invest big money on a single bet.

If the low beta stocks also have a low valuation, it could be interesting for me. You can find a full list of higher capitalized high-yield stocks with low beta ratios below. In total, there are 13 companies with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion and a yield above the 5 percent mark that have beta ratios of less than 0.5 and a forward P/E of less than 15.

The results are dominated by residential REITS. I personally don’t like this investment category. Sure you can make money with it but growth is very capital expensive. You sit on your investment and wait for rental price increases or decreasing vacancy rates. That’s not very funny for a long-term growth investor like me. As you see, there is also a huge debt burden on the stocks which exceeds the amount of equity by a few factors. Gas utilities and my favorites from the cigarettes industry are much more interesting.

Five of the results have a very high yield of more than 10 percent and seven have a current buy or better recommendation. What do you think about the screening results? Do you own some of the mentioned stocks? Let me know and discuss the pros and cons in the box below.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 17, 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 January 17, 2013. In total, 6 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 1 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.52%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.45%
PNM Resources, Inc.	PNM	1.62B	7.99	0.99	1.19	2.85%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	9.08B	18.52	3.22	1.10	1.97%
Graco Inc.	GGG	3.23B	23.66	7.56	3.32	1.88%
Apache Corp.	APA	31.46B	12.86	1.02	1.85	0.85%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	8.40B	17.17	4.43	2.85	0.78%

20 Highly Recommended Financial Dividend Shares | Stock Buy List

Financial dividend stocks with highest buy recommendation originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". One sector I’ve tried to avoid in the past was the financial sector. I have only stocks from financial services provider like Thomson Reuters or some Stock Exchange Operator like the NYX. Some major investors and hedge funds have started bets on the post financial recovery earlier with no greater success.

The whole financial industry is still in a crises and this should go on. I don’t know how long. Jobs in the industry are still degraded and as long as the interest rates are low and there will be more and more jobs degraded.

Despite the bad sector news, Last year, the financial sector was the top performing bet with a 27.5 percent gain. I missed this opportunity but as of today, I cannot evaluate all the risks within the sector. I have no idea what kind of risk assets banks have and how they manage them.

What do you think about the sector? Do you have some shares from banks or related industries? Let me know and leave a comment in the box below.

Today, I like to show you the 20 best recommended financial stocks with a higher capitalization (over USD 2 billion). Below the results are five with a high yield.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 16, 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 January 16, 2013. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	144.36M	13.13	0.92	5.80	9.14%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	8.96	1.83	12.06	5.63%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	74.80M	9.65	1.14	0.49	4.73%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	1.54B	14.95	3.82	0.59	3.08%
Commercial Metals Company	CMC	1.83B	13.76	1.40	0.24	3.06%
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad	EOC	13.62B	19.09	2.58	2.72	2.99%
Enersis S.A.	ENI	12.21B	17.81	1.51	0.87	2.94%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	5.01B	13.69	2.19	0.84	2.16%
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.	OZRK	1.20B	16.27	2.50	5.99	1.74%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	1.88B	24.69	2.62	1.51	1.38%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	826.01M	24.92	3.64	1.01	1.20%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	16.54B	35.38	4.35	1.41	0.90%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.93B	-	2.02	1.88	0.82%

7 High-Yield Canadian Energy Trusts With Monthly Dividend Payments

Canadian Energy Trusts with very high yields and monthly dividends originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Investing money into stocks is hard work and very painful if you make the wrong choices. If you have a focus on dividends like me then you should have a quiet overview of the best dividend paying stocks. 

You should also know some of the stocks that pay money to investors on a monthly basis. More than 300 companies pay dividends each month but most of them are trash. I introduced some higher yielding stocks with monthly payments in the past and like to proceed today with seven Canadian Energy Trusts.

Let me clarify one thing. It doesn’t matter how often a company pays its shareholders. It is more important to have a high quality growth stock with a trustful management than a company with a high yield and monthly dividend payments.