Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 01, 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 01, 2013. In total, 9 stocks go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.50%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Southern Company	SO	39.52B	19.33	2.19	2.35	4.47%
EQT Midstream Partners, LP	EQM	1.66B	34.99	3.51	10.05	3.34%
Pope Resources LP	POPE	306.92M	24.22	4.36	4.55	2.56%
AmeriServ Financial, Inc.	ASRV	57.12M	15.00	0.63	1.46	1.33%
Federated National Holding	FNHC	81.03M	14.71	1.18	1.07	1.18%
Peoples Federal Bancshares, Inc.	PEOP	107.68M	79.43	1.00	5.41	0.88%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	63.79B	10.09	1.70	2.19	0.62%
Citigroup	C	157.45B	16.54	0.82	2.42	0.08%

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The Latest Dividend Growth Stocks | Kinder Morgan In Focus

Stocks with receent dividend hikes originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com.

Two initial special dividends were announced yesterday and nine companies announced a nice dividend growth on the past trading day.

The biggest stock was Kinder Morgan Partners and the greatest dividend hike came from Western Refining with a 50 percent dividend growth. See the table below with ex-dividend and payment dates.

Dividend growth accelerates but is still weak.

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Boston Priv Fincl Hldgs	2.47	40.00%	Quarterly	8/6/2013	8/22/2013
EQT Midstream Partners LP	3.50	8.11%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
First Community	2.15	20.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan	4.05	5.26%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan Energy	6.17	1.54%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/14/2013
LaSalle Hotel Prprts	4.23	40.00%	Quarterly	9/26/2013	10/15/2013
Western Gas Equity Ptrs	1.88	10.49%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/21/2013
Western Gas Partners LP	3.57	3.70%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/12/2013
Western Refining	2.63	50.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013

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Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest YTD Performance And Which Are Still Cheap

Basic material dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material stock category were the real losing sector this year. Stocks from the sector are down 2.6 percent this year while the best performing sector, healthcare stocks, gained 24.3 percent.

But not all basic materials are loser. There are stocks that doubled its price since the beginning of this year. Others are up 50 percent. Below, you can find a small list of the 20 top basic material stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 300 million and those without a dividend.

The 20 top dividend paying results gained from 44.58 percent to 65.14 percent. Three of the results have a market cap below a billion and additional seven are valuated between one or two billion. Small and mid-cap stocks are the main performance driver of the sector. Despite the strong stock price hikes, fourteen companies still have a buy or better rating.

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