Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 20, 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, 9 stocks go ex dividend - of which 2 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
CYS Investments Inc	CYS	1.48B	-	0.83	4.75	15.96%
Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Inc.	PNY	2.54B	18.05	2.10	2.02	3.69%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	3.86B	37.44	2.64	1.87	2.71%
Vina Concha y Toro S.A.	VCO	1.37B	28.00	1.65	1.53	2.56%
Omnicom Group Inc.	OMC	17.02B	17.71	5.57	1.18	2.42%
QAD Inc.	QADA	216.46M	55.92	3.75	0.85	2.16%
Allied World Assurance Company	AWH	3.35B	10.51	0.99	1.55	2.05%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.	RCL	8.84B	118.50	1.06	1.13	1.19%
PulteGroup, Inc.	PHM	6.91B	23.59	2.97	1.30	1.12%

Continue

11 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Summer days are coming and the financial market goes to hibernation.

Last week was the weakest week in terms of dividend growth. Only 11 companies announced a dividend hike within the recent week and additional three funds followed to hike dividends. Five of them are yielding over three percent and eight have a current buy or better rating.

The biggest stocks with recent dividend growth are Caterpillar, the retail discounter Target as well as the medical instruments and supplies company CR Bard.

Read More »

Continue