Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 04, 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, 75 stocks go ex dividend - of which 24 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.08%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Realty Capital Propert.	ARCP	2.18B	-	1.52	22.78	6.79%
CenturyLink, Inc.	CTL	20.01B	19.14	1.09	1.10	6.52%
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	81.24B	8.09	0.97	0.18	6.18%
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	3.65B	19.72	1.02	0.69	5.07%
Public Service Enterprise Group	PEG	16.40B	13.45	1.48	1.66	4.44%
BHP Billiton plc	BBL	154.58B	14.27	2.19	2.34	4.06%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	33.73B	104.20	3.07	2.58	3.86%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	216.97B	10.32	1.75	2.22	3.82%
BHP Billiton Ltd.	BHP	168.42B	15.55	2.38	2.55	3.73%
Waste Management, Inc.	WM	18.92B	22.22	2.91	1.38	3.61%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	199.13B	10.25	1.11	0.54	3.47%
Kimberly-Clark Corporation	KMB	35.96B	19.89	8.22	1.70	3.47%
Gannett Co., Inc.	GCI	5.51B	12.42	2.24	1.03	3.32%
American National Insurance	ANAT	2.81B	11.59	0.72	0.93	2.93%
Pepsico, Inc.	PEP	123.42B	18.80	5.45	1.87	2.85%
Baxter International Inc.	BAX	37.77B	17.30	5.19	2.63	2.82%
Genuine Parts Company	GPC	11.94B	17.31	3.88	0.89	2.79%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	8.96B	5.73	1.43	0.44	2.70%
SLM Corporation	SLM	10.56B	8.00	2.17	1.59	2.50%
CH Robinson Worldwide Inc.	CHRW	9.09B	15.58	6.06	0.75	2.46%

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Warren Buffett’s Latest Stock Picks And His Biggest Portfolio Holdings

Warren Buffett’s latest dividend stock picks and his big portfolio picture originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

Everybody loves Warren Buffett and when he releases his portfolio statements, all investors jump on this paper and try to figure out what he is doing.

In this article I will summarize the latest stock buys and sells of Warren Buffett's Bershire Hathaway and his latest portfolio overview.

Within the recent quarter, Warren made only 13 trades of which nine come from the long side. He bought two new companies and increased seven additional stock holdings in his portfolio. The new stocks were Dish Network and Suncor Energy.

The only stake he sold completely was the newspaper publisher Gannett.  Kraft Foods, Moody’s and Mondelez were reduced within the recent quarter.

Nothing changed much in Warren's Portfolio

In total, Warren did not change much. The stock with the highest influence to his portfolio pocket change was the bank U.S. Bancorp. The Oracle of Omaha increased the position by 27.37 percent which resulted in an portfolio impact of 0.69 percent.

You can find a full list of his latest transactions below. Ten of his 13 latest stock moves pay dividends and the yields are between 0.33 and 3.84.

Warren Buffett concentrates money on big dividend companies

Back to Warren’s biggest portfolio positions. Warren concentrates most of his wealth on four assets: Wells Fargo, Coca Cola, IBM and American Express. These fantastic four represent around 67 percent of his full portfolio value. On the attached list, you can see more details about his 20 biggest stock positions. Financial Services, Consumer defensive stocks and technology are the biggest sector in which Warren Buffett loves to invest.

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20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

Most sold short services dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The services sector is a big part of the economy and the financial markets. Roughly 850 companies have a relationship to the sector – That’s around 13.3 percent of the overall market by number of constituents.

Today I like to show you which services dividend stocks are most hated within the financial industry. Investors hate such stocks by selling them short. They believe in a falling stock price and want to profit from it.

My screen includes only mid- and large capitalized companies with a float short ratio of more than 5 percent.

The 20 most hated stocks have a float short ratio between 8.79 and 29.31 percent. Gamestop is the most sold company. Seven of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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