Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 27, 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, 47 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 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
Annaly Capital Management	NLY	11.46B	3.57	0.93	3.86	13.22%
Realty Income Corp.	O	7.92B	57.06	1.78	13.08	5.38%
Liberty Property Trust	LRY	4.36B	35.96	1.98	6.22	5.23%
Eni SpA	E	84.41B	26.94	1.07	0.50	5.04%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	69.24B	11.82	1.86	3.87	4.15%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	12.32B	26.95	1.60	1.51	3.06%
Fulton Financial Corporation	FULT	2.27B	14.30	1.12	3.65	2.73%
BankUnited, Inc.	BKU	3.06B	14.81	1.65	4.16	2.73%
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.	APD	22.47B	22.98	3.44	2.20	2.65%
CubeSmart	CUBE	2.38B	-	2.38	7.70	2.47%
Ford Motor Co.	F	67.61B	11.31	3.52	0.47	2.33%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	17.87B	54.58	2.99	0.18	2.31%
Dell Inc.	DELL	24.35B	18.24	2.26	0.43	2.31%
Axis Capital Holdings Limited	AXS	5.00B	9.00	1.01	1.23	2.30%
Rent-A-Center Inc.	RCII	2.07B	12.43	1.56	0.67	2.22%
HEALTHSOUTH Corp.	HLS	2.95B	11.87	10.75	1.34	2.10%
HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.	HCC	4.36B	10.90	1.24	1.71	2.04%
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Cla	ARCO	2.47B	31.00	3.70	0.63	2.04%
Quest Diagnostics Inc.	DGX	9.50B	18.62	2.43	1.32	1.93%
State Street Corp.	STT	30.17B	14.57	1.54	10.59	1.56%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 28, 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 June 28, 2013. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.54%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	63.98B	10.47	1.72	3.69	4.40%
Flowserve Corp.	FLS	2.60B	6.17	1.46	0.54	3.11%
Village Super Market Inc.	VLGEA	446.14M	17.04	1.91	0.30	3.03%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	59.68B	10.60	1.75	2.39	2.60%
Rent-A-Center Inc.	RCII	2.16B	12.34	1.45	0.70	2.25%
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Cla	ARCO	2.45B	30.03	3.52	0.64	2.05%
Quest Diagnostics Inc.	DGX	9.67B	16.66	2.30	1.33	1.96%
Formula Systems (1985) Ltd.	FORTY	294.08M	14.42	1.26	0.42	1.71%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	14.61B	14.70	2.75	2.12	1.13%

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13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Healthcare dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Selling a stock short is a popular method by investors to make a capital gain in a falling market. If investors believe that the stock price should fall, they borrow shares of the company and sell them on the market in order to hope that the stock price falls much more and that he can buy back the borrowed shares for a cheaper price.

Activists often sell stocks short. They try to scary other investors. Today I like to show you which of the healthcare stocks have the highest float short ratio. The ratio shows you how many shares have been sold short. It’s ever interesting to see which companies have some problems and investors like to speculate on a falling stock price. The higher the ratio is, the bigger the problems of the company.

These are my criteria:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Healthcare Sector Relationship

- Float Short Ratio over 5 percent

Thirteen healthcare dividend stocks have fulfilled these criteria. Eight of them have a current buy or better rating.

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