Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 25, 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, 44 stocks go ex dividend - of which 13 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
Healthcare Trust of America	HTA	2.47B	274.00	1.86	8.09	5.29%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.51B	18.43	1.54	0.76	4.87%
Canadian Imperial Bank of Comm.	CM	32.40B	10.17	2.08	2.82	4.59%
Staples, Inc.	SPLS	9.64B	-	1.60	0.40	3.25%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	15.91B	38.37	2.11	0.86	2.95%
Sempra Energy	SRE	21.44B	22.12	2.00	2.05	2.86%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	12.30B	14.55	2.06	2.91	2.86%
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc.	ELS	2.93B	35.97	3.97	4.10	2.84%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.07B	13.83	1.98	0.48	2.28%
ProAssurance Corporation	PRA	2.85B	8.81	1.22	3.87	2.17%
Protective Life Corp.	PL	3.35B	11.09	0.87	0.92	1.90%
Weight Watchers International	WTW	2.11B	8.85	-	1.18	1.86%
Axiall Corporation	AXLL	2.66B	12.61	1.10	0.68	1.68%
Stantec Inc.	STN	2.44B	19.46	3.18	1.49	1.21%
Regal Beloit Corporation	RBC	3.06B	16.14	1.53	0.99	1.17%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	21.97B	32.05	4.03	3.81	1.08%
Ralph Lauren Corporation	RL	14.98B	20.86	3.98	2.14	0.97%
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.	ZMH	14.17B	20.67	2.41	3.14	0.95%
Flowserve Corp.	FLS	8.89B	20.17	5.18	1.84	0.90%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	21.63B	40.17	5.72	1.68	0.69%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 19, 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 19, 2013. In total, 45 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	9.28	1.55	9.88	6.39%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	88.48B	15.60	2.19	2.77	6.11%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.58B	18.92	1.59	0.78	4.75%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.76B	63.56	3.97	4.59	3.60%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.42B	19.23	1.77	3.29	2.80%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	2.95B	50.20	1.18	0.64	2.61%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.36B	16.22	2.68	0.61	2.49%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.90B	15.26	2.03	0.95	2.42%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	22.76B	7.18	1.90	0.25	2.38%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.09B	8.39	2.05	1.10	2.32%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.92B	33.06	2.17	1.14	2.30%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.60B	15.61	1.29	1.50	2.19%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.12B	8.64	0.87	3.56	1.88%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	13.20B	14.43	1.44	0.47	1.79%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	3.15B	11.10	2.70	1.20	1.67%
Littelfuse Inc.	LFUS	1.75B	23.40	2.81	2.54	1.12%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	849.54M	7.94	1.55	1.38	0.87%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	497.07M	-	1.40	0.62	0.57%

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8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

Most sold short utility dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to look at the most shorted dividend stocks from the utility sector. I observed only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million and a float short ratio over 5 percent.

Only eight companies have a capital stake with more than 5 percent of short sellers. Utilities are very unpopular in terms of borrowing shares and selling them with hope to cause a stock crash.

I often told that one of the characteristics of a utility stock is the stability. But the price you pay is the low growth and high debt. The capital intensive business model doesn’t allow it to expand the balance sheet without capital increases.

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