27 Stocks With Bigger Dividends (Full Compilation)

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 27 companies increased their dividends within the recent week. You can find the full list attached and some of my favorites in the article below.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 10, 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, 54 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 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
Banco Santander-Chile	SAN	88.72B	15.36	0.92	2.34	7.22%
Mid-America Apartment Communities	MAA	2.62B	38.19	2.68	4.96	4.52%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan	POT	28.03B	12.55	2.72	3.49	4.32%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.59B	14.47	2.80	2.14	4.20%
ConocoPhillips	COP	86.29B	11.37	1.78	1.44	3.93%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	32.24B	11.71	1.62	1.81	3.80%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	70.74B	13.70	19.88	3.78	3.59%
Leidos Holdings, Inc.	LDOS	3.83B	9.18	1.63	0.36	2.82%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.49B	-	2.18	7.22	2.64%
PNC Financial Services Group Inc.	PNC	37.46B	10.64	0.93	3.59	2.48%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	51.51B	62.28	2.31	2.37	1.70%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	3.04B	29.98	3.82	0.84	1.69%
American Financial Group Inc.	AFG	4.75B	9.71	1.06	0.93	1.66%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.48B	14.97	7.31	2.16	1.54%
IDEX Corporation	IEX	5.26B	98.85	3.55	2.65	1.43%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	3.36B	11.94	1.54	0.86	1.38%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	17.01B	-	1.31	1.16	1.34%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	16.99B	18.71	3.55	2.49	0.96%
EMCOR Group Inc.	EME	2.47B	18.19	1.77	0.39	0.65%

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20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

Most sold short services dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The services sector is a big part of the economy and the financial markets. Roughly 850 companies have a relationship to the sector – That’s around 13.3 percent of the overall market by number of constituents.

Today I like to show you which services dividend stocks are most hated within the financial industry. Investors hate such stocks by selling them short. They believe in a falling stock price and want to profit from it.

My screen includes only mid- and large capitalized companies with a float short ratio of more than 5 percent.

The 20 most hated stocks have a float short ratio between 8.79 and 29.31 percent. Gamestop is the most sold company. Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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