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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20 Cheapest Financial Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks from the financial sector with very low forward P/E ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividends are great, not only because you get cash in your pockets. It’s also a symbol for the ability of a company to share its profits with the shareholder of the company.

Dividends are good but they are better when the company is cheaply priced. This month, I started a screen serial of the cheapest stocks from several major sectors. Today, I observe financial stocks with a large market capitalization (over USD 10 billion) and a positive dividend yield.

The top 20 results are valuated between 6.9 and 9.6 of expected earnings. Despite the financial recovery and the ongoing crises, nearly all of the results have an expected five year earnings growth close to the 10 percent mark.
Two of the results have a high yield and 18 are currently recommended to buy or even better.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 07, 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 May 07, 2013. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.80%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Box Ships Inc.	TEU	116.06M	6.12	0.49	1.80	18.92%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.69B	10.90	1.33	1.21	4.67%
Computer Programs & Systems	CPSI	565.08M	18.09	9.60	3.00	4.00%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.28B	14.26	1.03	0.48	3.79%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	558.14M	12.78	1.03	3.60	3.19%
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	295.86M	44.94	0.97	3.76	2.97%
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV	PHG	27.05B	157.00	1.76	0.84	2.94%
Wynn Resorts Ltd.	WYNN	14.01B	28.86	-	2.72	2.88%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	44.40B	19.09	0.69	0.64	2.72%
Matson, Inc.	MATX	1.04B	20.18	3.72	0.67	2.46%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	1.94B	16.54	1.68	1.33	2.27%
Discover Financial Services	DFS	22.52B	10.03	2.20	3.33	1.74%
Fox Chase Bancorp, Inc.	FXCB	207.93M	34.61	1.16	5.10	1.42%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	46.32B	31.41	8.97	3.30	1.36%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.62B	26.15	6.41	7.97	1.21%
First Financial Holdings Inc.	FFCH	336.88M	11.85	1.11	2.10	0.98%
EverBank Financial Corp.	EVER	1.93B	18.98	1.31	2.75	0.51%
Embraer SA	ERJ	6.50B	18.38	1.99	1.05	0.23%

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50 Shares With Fastest Dividend Growth In April 2013

Shares with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Only a growing business is a good business; that’s a major rule in economics. But growth is not all. Investors want a part of the company’s success; they want growing dividends at high rates.

Sometimes, predatory investors and some activists try to steal some of the company’s assets and force a dividend payment which is much higher than the current earnings. Those activities are bad for the stock price.

Good dividend hikes are such ones that are in-line with a healthy growing operational business. They reflect a solid growing business with a trustful management who wants to share the company’s success with the ownership.

It’s easy to discover good and bad dividend growth. All you need is to look at the earnings developments and debt changes.

Today I run my screen of the 50 fastest dividend growers from the recent month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. All stocks have a double-digit growth rate. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 73.26 percent. The average yield is still at 3.77 percent.

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