Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 13, 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, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.67%. 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
Life Partners Holdings, Inc.	LPHI	41.21M	-	1.39	2.37	9.05%
LS Starrett Co.	SCX	71.46M	-	0.56	0.29	3.81%
Potlatch Corporation	PCH	1.59B	23.79	10.27	2.80	3.16%
Chemung Financial Corp.	CHMG	153.71M	15.28	1.16	3.02	3.15%
Horace Mann Educators Corp.	HMN	1.09B	9.66	0.99	1.06	2.84%
Renasant Corp.	RNST	667.43M	22.42	1.33	4.23	2.57%
Huntington Bancshares	HBAN	7.19B	12.13	1.33	3.80	2.32%
Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.	GLF	1.29B	61.95	1.32	3.20	2.02%
R.G. Barry Corporation	DFZ	217.41M	16.62	2.54	1.48	1.88%
The Men's Wearhouse, Inc.	MW	1.96B	14.52	1.81	0.78	1.86%
Harley-Davidson, Inc.	HOG	14.13B	20.44	5.01	2.44	1.33%
Ecolab Inc.	ECL	28.97B	34.44	4.35	2.36	0.96%
Air Lease Corporation	AL	2.76B	17.80	1.14	3.61	0.37%

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20 Highly Recommended Dividend Aristocrats And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Cheap Dividend Aristocrats with buy or better ratings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

Dividend Aristocrats are some of the best dividend income growth stock you can buy at the market. Those stocks have raised their cash distributions to shareholders over a period of more than 25 years without a break. For sure, it's no guarantee to receive a higher dividend next year but the possibility of a dividend hike is very high.

I wrote recently that high quality stocks are also highly priced and the Dividend Aristocrats are definitely highly priced. It’s very hard to find real bargains and to receive a good long-term total return.

Today I would like to give you an update of the most recommend stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with some fundamentals. 29 of 54 companies from the index have a current buy or better rating and nearly half of the results still have a low forward P/E of less than 15. That’s very interesting because all of the 20 most recommended Dividend Aristocrats have positive earnings per share predictions for the mid-term – in average 10.14 percent.

Below is a list of the 20 highest recommended Aristocrats with a detailed look on the three cheapest results.


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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 14, 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 14, 2013. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.06%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
BlackRock Kelso Capital	BKCC	727.66M	11.16	1.04	5.01	10.59%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	7.09B	12.31	1.84	2.64	5.28%
Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.	NM	531.69M	3.71	0.45	0.89	4.66%
AmREIT, Inc.	AMRE	300.60M	24.46	1.76	6.96	4.30%
The Men's Wearhouse, Inc.	MW	1.79B	14.01	1.66	0.72	2.02%
Altra Holdings, Inc.	AIMC	721.44M	27.83	3.03	1.00	1.50%
Ecolab Inc.	ECL	24.94B	30.97	4.05	2.10	1.09%
DSW Inc.	DSW	3.32B	23.84	9.93	1.44	0.97%
Eagle Materials Inc.	EXP	3.39B	55.73	4.88	5.28	0.58%

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