Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 22, 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, 16 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.68%. 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
Intersections Inc.	INTX	177.93M	17.00	1.72	0.53	8.11%
Pan American Silver Corp.	PAAS	2.07B	-	0.77	2.26	3.66%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	3.77B	17.07	1.46	1.01	3.36%
FirstMerit Corporation	FMER	3.63B	17.81	1.42	6.16	2.79%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.25B	5.91	1.48	0.45	2.62%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.30B	24.77	3.33	2.63	2.28%
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	4.27B	11.04	0.89	0.49	1.82%
Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc.	DNKN	4.66B	36.83	13.14	6.88	1.76%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	5.13B	22.14	5.95	1.24	1.70%
Old Line Bancshares Inc.	OLBK	89.93M	12.87	1.20	2.37	1.22%
Apollo Global Management, LLC	APO	3.91B	8.00	3.70	1.06	0.98%
Guaranty Bancorp	GBNK	240.52M	19.88	1.30	3.49	0.87%
LSB Financial Corp.	LSBI	37.58M	13.88	0.95	2.47	0.83%
Haverty Furniture Companies	HVT	574.87M	28.18	2.11	0.81	0.62%
Hecla Mining Co.	HL	1.13B	-	0.85	3.49	0.27%
Radian Group Inc.	RDN	2.26B	-	2.51	3.10	0.08%

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20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

Raw Material dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Basic Material stocks were the worst performing stock category within the recent six month. The sector had a performance of -0.7 percent while the S&P 500 increased 15.27 percent.

The fear of an economic slowdown mainly caused by China’s slowing growth is the main reason behind.

Investors can benefit from a falling stock price via short selling. Today I like to look at the basic material dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion.

The top 20 results have a float short ratio between 6 percent and 32.62 percent. Eight of the results still have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 10, 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 10, 2013. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Triangle Capital Corporation	TCAP	793.73M	11.95	1.88	8.29	7.50%
Ameren Corporation	AEE	8.30B	-	1.30	1.25	4.68%
Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania	UVSP	306.76M	14.70	1.08	3.85	4.35%
Newmont Mining Corp.	NEM	17.21B	10.79	1.24	1.84	4.01%
Parkway Properties Inc.	PKY	1.20B	-	1.38	4.84	3.44%
Public Storage	PSA	26.45B	38.19	3.03	14.24	3.25%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.40B	12.11	1.89	0.59	2.73%
Guess' Inc.	GES	2.65B	15.00	2.45	1.00	2.56%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.71B	5.38	1.55	0.49	2.51%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	47.14B	-	2.00	0.41	2.39%
PS Business Parks Inc.	PSB	1.82B	76.48	1.17	5.20	2.35%
State Auto Financial Corp.	STFC	759.75M	23.44	0.99	0.66	2.13%
Texas Roadhouse Inc.	TXRH	1.67B	21.68	2.99	1.28	2.01%
Amerisafe, Inc.	AMSF	622.13M	21.97	1.60	1.89	0.95%
OfficeMax Incorporated	OMX	1.11B	2.41	1.02	0.16	0.63%
Amphenol Corporation	APH	12.35B	21.71	4.94	2.81	0.54%
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	APC	43.58B	63.43	2.07	3.14	0.41%

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