Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 15, 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 15, 2013. In total, 54 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.86%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
The GEO Group, Inc.	GEO	2.45B	13.13	2.37	1.58	5.79%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	2.92B	55.02	2.37	5.42	4.83%
Tronox Limited	TROX	2.60B	1.54	1.05	1.39	4.36%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.65	1.01	3.27%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	15.14B	11.80	0.40	0.24	3.08%
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional	SID	4.88B	-	1.27	0.58	2.99%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.00B	9.56	0.79	0.95	2.89%
United Parcel Service, Inc.	UPS	82.71B	101.99	22.84	1.52	2.83%
American Water Works	AWK	7.57B	20.69	1.68	2.64	2.63%
L-3 Communications Holdings	LLL	8.39B	11.11	1.50	0.63	2.36%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	2.17B	12.35	4.51	1.41	2.33%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.08B	13.89	1.99	0.49	2.27%
Allison Transmission Holdings	ALSN	4.26B	35.29	2.98	2.19	2.09%
j2 Global, Inc.	JCOM	2.37B	19.86	3.68	5.27	1.84%
Tim Hortons Inc.	THI	9.01B	22.52	7.52	2.95	1.70%
AmerisourceBergen Corporation	ABC	13.43B	22.98	5.55	0.16	1.44%
SemGroup Corporation	SEMG	2.32B	37.58	2.10	1.92	1.39%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	4.72B	20.88	3.03	3.24	1.08%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.50B	29.24	7.43	1.74	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	15.82B	75.99	6.92	10.62	0.11%

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20 Of The Safest Dividend Challengers On The Market

Dividend Challengers with lowest beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love high-quality dividend growth stocks and the stocks with the longest history of consecutive payments are definitely Dividend Kings and Dividend Champions. But the big disadvantage of them is that they are also highly priced.

You cannot make a greater return with stocks that have a P/E ratio of 22 and grows only at 5 percent. You need real bargains to make big profit with your asset.

This problem can be solved when you look into the dividend potentials. Those stocks haven’t yet reached a longer dividend payment history but they can become a great Dividend Champion within the next years. The price ratios are also lower for some companies and you have a better choice to find good investments because out there are around 160 stocks with five or more years of consecutive dividend payments and 207 with a payment between 10 to 25 years.

Today I like to screen the third class of dividend growth stocks by the safest alternatives. The 20 safest dividend growth stocks have a beta ratio between 0.18 and 0.55. All three top picks come from the oil & gas pipeline industry, a branch with very stable sales and future growth perspectives due to the shale gas boom in the United States.

From the 20 safest Dividend Challengers have nine a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 22, 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 May 22, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	449.15M	10.79	1.23	6.99	9.20%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	4.09B	-	-	0.62	3.92%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	218.32B	15.88	1.25	3.85	3.41%
Exelis, Inc.	XLS	2.27B	7.51	2.16	0.43	3.39%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.39B	18.69	1.16	1.78	2.83%
Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd.	GSH	3.46B	16.50	0.81	1.38	2.83%
Questar Corporation	STR	4.53B	21.72	4.19	3.94	2.79%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.60B	19.51	1.21	1.86	2.71%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.00B	34.28	4.95	1.12	2.67%
American Water Works Company	AWK	7.59B	19.87	1.68	2.62	2.62%
W&T Offshore Inc.	WTI	1.15B	15.41	2.12	1.28	2.36%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	3.67B	17.07	5.95	1.62	1.91%
Hershey Co.	HSY	19.87B	28.74	17.87	2.95	1.89%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	4.96B	22.81	5.72	1.21	1.80%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.32B	23.57	-	1.07	1.57%
Heartland Financial USA Inc.	HTLF	465.47M	9.97	1.13	2.47	1.45%
National Interstate Corporation	NATL	596.92M	18.23	1.64	1.15	1.45%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.51B	27.08	3.72	3.41	1.41%
Core-Mark Holding Company	CORE	662.51M	20.46	1.66	0.07	1.32%
ITT Corporation	ITT	2.76B	24.15	4.22	1.22	1.30%

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