Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 02, 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 August 02, 2013. In total, 3 stocks go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.93%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
BCB Bancorp Inc.	BCBP	89.42M	-	0.96	1.65	4.56%
IdaCorp, Inc.	IDA	2.64B	14.91	1.49	2.39	2.88%
Alaska Air Group, Inc.	ALK	4.30B	12.53	2.79	0.90	1.31%

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10 Stocks And 2 Funds Hiked Their Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The number of dividend hikers remains low. Only 10 stocks and two additional funds announced to increase their dividend payments last week.

On the list are some well known big players like Conoco Philips, Walgreen, Paychex or Cummins. It’s ever good to see that some stocks keep their dividend growth path. Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating.

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