Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 06, 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 06, 2013. In total, 24 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Navios Maritime Partners L.P.	NMM	1.02B	9.82	1.54	4.90	11.70%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.15B	12.67	1.32	1.13	4.87%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.33B	13.38	1.21	0.48	3.93%
Computer Programs & Systems	CPSI	638.87M	20.30	10.30	3.26	3.54%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.96B	16.41	5.53	3.16	3.27%
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	308.77M	43.50	1.03	3.63	2.81%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.	BHLB	656.15M	15.22	0.97	3.36	2.72%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	876.03M	23.14	1.56	4.09	2.47%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	737.58M	15.13	1.35	4.79	2.42%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	4.31B	-	0.95	0.57	2.11%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	2.20B	19.36	1.89	1.49	2.08%
Discover Financial Services	DFS	25.00B	9.97	2.53	3.36	1.56%
Cardinal Financial Corp.	CFNL	502.66M	11.23	1.59	4.56	1.46%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	55.65B	35.52	9.69	3.85	1.13%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	10.13B	27.29	1.49	0.59	1.13%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.95B	29.10	7.22	8.88	0.98%
Wintrust Financial Corporation	WTFC	1.56B	16.27	0.94	2.50	0.86%
Franklin Electric Co. Inc.	FELE	1.84B	23.41	3.36	1.98	0.81%
Arkansas Best Corporation	ABFS	583.52M	73.42	1.30	0.27	0.53%

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The Latest Dividend Growth Stocks | Kinder Morgan In Focus

Stocks with receent dividend hikes originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com.

Two initial special dividends were announced yesterday and nine companies announced a nice dividend growth on the past trading day.

The biggest stock was Kinder Morgan Partners and the greatest dividend hike came from Western Refining with a 50 percent dividend growth. See the table below with ex-dividend and payment dates.

Dividend growth accelerates but is still weak.

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Boston Priv Fincl Hldgs	2.47	40.00%	Quarterly	8/6/2013	8/22/2013
EQT Midstream Partners LP	3.50	8.11%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
First Community	2.15	20.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan	4.05	5.26%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan Energy	6.17	1.54%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/14/2013
LaSalle Hotel Prprts	4.23	40.00%	Quarterly	9/26/2013	10/15/2013
Western Gas Equity Ptrs	1.88	10.49%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/21/2013
Western Gas Partners LP	3.57	3.70%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/12/2013
Western Refining	2.63	50.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013

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