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

In total, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. 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
Chimera Investment Corporation	CIM	3.13B	27.64	0.98	17.72	11.84%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.32B	-	1.09	2.94	6.15%
Brandywine Realty Trust	BDN	2.05B	-	1.07	3.63	4.55%
DCT Industrial Trust Inc.	DCT	2.09B	-	1.51	7.36	3.89%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	18.87B	19.06	3.63	0.42	3.52%
Erie Indemnity Co.	ERIE	3.38B	23.76	5.23	0.58	3.27%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	76.08B	56.44	5.30	4.81	3.03%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	195.51B	8.63	0.99	3.63	2.94%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	58.16B	11.28	1.80	2.75	2.88%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	66.15B	11.67	2.04	2.62	2.35%
Gentex Corp.	GNTX	3.67B	20.47	3.04	3.38	2.19%
Medtronic, Inc.	MDT	53.77B	15.30	2.90	3.23	2.10%
Washington Federal Inc.	WAFD	2.15B	15.09	1.12	4.14	1.74%
Monsanto Co.	MON	55.74B	22.69	4.02	3.78	1.65%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	3.15B	44.24	1.34	10.90	1.64%
American Express Company	AXP	82.32B	18.56	4.33	2.40	1.22%
Torchmark Corp.	TMK	6.67B	12.83	1.75	1.80	0.94%
Steven Madden, Ltd.	SHOO	2.34B	19.50	3.55	1.87	-

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 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 July 02, 2013. In total, 33 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
DCT Industrial Trust Inc.	DCT	2.01B	-	1.50	7.40	3.92%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	20.13B	19.75	3.90	0.46	3.28%
BankUnited, Inc.	BKU	2.47B	12.81	1.34	3.40	3.23%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	73.20B	50.78	5.36	4.52	3.13%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	54.52B	10.58	1.60	2.54	3.07%
Erie Indemnity Co.	ERIE	3.73B	26.39	5.86	0.67	2.97%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	201.56B	9.43	1.02	3.68	2.88%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	27.56B	-	2.38	0.88	2.86%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	58.21B	10.34	1.71	2.33	2.67%
Gentex Corp.	GNTX	3.29B	19.70	2.82	3.05	2.43%
Medtronic, Inc.	MDT	52.20B	15.23	2.80	3.15	2.02%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	2.73B	32.88	1.16	9.34	1.90%
Masco Corporation	MAS	6.82B	-	24.06	0.88	1.54%
Monsanto Co.	MON	52.77B	21.48	3.80	3.58	1.52%
American Express Company	AXP	82.16B	18.93	4.26	2.42	1.23%
Torchmark Corp.	TMK	6.10B	11.80	1.42	1.67	1.04%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	19.08B	37.04	5.25	1.52	0.78%

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Ken Fisher's Biggest Dividend Stock Buys And His Latest Asset Allocation

The largest dividend stocks buys from Ken Fisher as of Q1/2013 originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

Ken Fisher is an investment analyst and founder, chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments. In his asset management company he serves around USD 37.63 billion. His portfolio invested money on 474 companies; 48 of his stock holdings are completely new.

Ken has big investments within the technology sector but financial shares and consumer stocks are also very important for his asset allocation. His latest portfolio transactions show that he strengthen his technology and commodity side. He bought Cisco and Apple for the tech side and BASF, RIO Tinto, Vale and BP for his commodity bets.

Below is a list of his latest and biggest dividend stock buys as well as his most important portfolio positions.

16 of his 20 top buys from the recent quarter pay dividends and 13 are currently recommended to buy. He's a real large cap investor but has also some smaller companies. Summarized: Fisher has a very diversified portfolio.

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Warren Buffett’s Latest Buys and Sells | Berkshire Hathaway Q1/2013 Fund Portfolio

Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway Q1/2013 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Recently, Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha published his first quarter results and released the recent buys and sells.

Below is a current portfolio update of Warren Buffett’s - Berkshire Hathaway - portfolio movements as of Q1/2013 (March 31, 2013). In total, he has 41 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 85,001,344,000. Buffett bought two new companies and added nine additional stocks to his fund. The most important buys were Wells Fargo and Chicago Bridge & Iron Company.

In return, Buffett reduced three stocks and closed two positions completely. The biggest changer on the short side was General Dynamics.

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60 Stocks And 6 Funds Raised Dividend Payments Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week was an interesting one because some of the big players announced a dividend hike, in-line with the expectations of the market. They are still continuing long-term dividend grower. Below the results are IBM, PepsiCo, Costco, American Express or Royal Dutch. 

In total, 60 shares and six ETFs announced a hike, in average a 30.05 percent increase. Eleven of them pay a high yields; 37 have a current buy or better recommendation. 

The markets are at All-Time-Highs and nobody scares this. I hate it when stocks getting more expensive and yields go rapidly down because I must limit my stock purchases. In such an environment, a dividend growth investor can’t build values when a slow growing stock pays a 1.5 percent yield - a value similar to the bond market yields. Let’s hope that earnings and sales grow in the same amount.

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