3 Best And Worst Performing Dividend Champions In 2013

We're coming to the year-end and I would like to review the performance of the best and worst stocks from the Dividend Champions list.

The best performing stocks increased by 60.77 percent over the whole year while the worst performer declined by 17.34 percent.

In total, we can summarize that the year 2013 was a good year for all investors. Big money came in due to the monetary policy and helped to boost stocks at all-time highs.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 08, 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, 22 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 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
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp.	ANH	669.33M	7.73	0.78	3.70	10.34%
AT&T, Inc.	T	181.61B	25.57	2.11	1.42	5.33%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.08B	16.57	2.94	0.70	4.71%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	134.94B	87.22	3.96	1.14	4.50%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.16B	15.50	1.61	0.87	4.01%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	5.90B	-	2.09	7.85	3.98%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	30.83B	18.03	4.52	1.70	3.17%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	54.12B	23.09	4.14	1.53	3.07%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.54B	-	1.86	1.34	2.61%
Ingles Markets Inc.	IMKTA	659.00M	53.37	1.65	0.17	2.42%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	7.13B	21.02	2.53	1.97	2.34%
Covidien plc	COV	28.04B	16.80	2.90	2.63	2.12%
Choice Hotels International Inc.	CHH	2.50B	22.43	-	3.52	1.72%
Kadant Inc.	KAI	360.38M	13.00	1.43	1.12	1.55%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.14B	25.92	4.82	2.98	1.53%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	776.42M	24.20	2.32	1.06	1.49%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.91B	26.12	1.96	1.64	1.24%
Aetna Inc.	AET	23.67B	13.26	1.76	0.59	1.20%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	19.76B	24.20	5.59	4.74	1.15%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	11.48B	9.39	0.86	0.98	1.11%

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15 Stocks With Latest Dividend Growth

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Only 15 stocks announced last week to hike dividends. The average dividend growth amounts to 26.37 percent.

Two big names are on the list. They are Philip Morris and Franklin Resources. The biggest dividend increases come from Axiall, Royal Caribbean and Sasol. All three plan to double or more dividends.

It’s good to see that the dividend growth goes into a next round. Dividend growth shows that the management team is optimistic about the company’s future and they like to give money back to shareholders they don’t need in this environment.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 08, 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 05, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	196.37B	27.83	2.23	1.55	5.05%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	146.19B	127.52	4.39	1.25	4.04%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.61B	16.28	3.21	0.77	3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.21B	14.13	1.61	0.91	3.92%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.48B	-	2.25	8.75	3.62%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.74B	18.00	4.52	1.82	3.11%
CSG International, Inc.	CSGS	748.38M	14.56	2.29	0.99	2.58%
United Microelectronics	UMC	6.11B	15.13	0.88	1.56	2.48%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.60B	33.39	1.54	1.35	2.45%
Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V.	IBA	1.73B	10.29	1.22	0.57	1.67%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.10B	23.34	4.76	2.82	1.58%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	145.10M	10.95	1.52	2.98	1.52%
Gap Inc.	GPS	19.90B	16.69	6.30	1.25	1.40%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	9.99B	8.16	0.67	0.86	1.30%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	838.93M	26.91	2.55	1.15	1.24%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.53B	23.45	5.19	4.17	1.09%
InterDigital, Inc.	IDCC	1.56B	6.48	3.09	2.44	1.05%
FEI Company	FEIC	2.82B	25.97	3.31	3.15	0.66%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.72B	19.11	1.92	1.38	0.45%

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