Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 30, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.21%. 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
Six Flags Entertainment	SIX	3.23B	10.16	8.01	2.99	5.33%
Orchids Paper Products Company	TIS	216.68M	20.58	2.68	2.05	5.04%
Greenhill & Co., Inc.	GHL	1.46B	27.97	5.71	4.55	3.68%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.31B	23.19	3.12	1.91	3.35%
Avery Dennison Corporation	AVY	4.30B	21.00	2.84	0.71	2.68%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	52.39B	20.23	1.34	1.41	2.24%
QUALCOMM Incorporated	QCOM	114.95B	17.70	3.06	4.94	2.10%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	20.56	4.01	2.56	2.02%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	4.54B	19.61	2.21	1.22	1.92%
Forrester Research Inc.	FORR	720.58M	33.90	3.31	2.46	1.77%
Computer Sciences Corporation	CSC	7.49B	12.53	2.42	0.51	1.60%
Schlumberger Limited	SLB	109.72B	17.70	2.97	2.45	1.51%
Joy Global, Inc.	JOY	5.20B	7.17	1.81	0.95	1.43%
HSN, Inc.	HSNI	2.94B	20.74	6.30	0.88	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	36.23B	11.77	2.17	1.18	1.10%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	3.13B	11.66	2.01	0.72	1.06%
Halliburton Company	HAL	45.23B	24.95	2.95	1.58	1.02%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	59.99B	9.08	1.57	2.03	0.66%

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20 Cheap Dividend Contenders With Real Low Debt Figures

Dividend Contenders with low debt and cheap price ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Contenders have raised their dividend payments over 10 years in a row but not more than 25 consecutive years. There are over 200 stocks with such an impressive dividend growth history but not all of them are really good. Every stock has a something that an investor loves and hates. The perfect stock does not exist.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Contenders category by cheap stocks (forward P/E below 15) with the lowest debt ratios. For passive investors, it's very important to own low leveraged growth stocks because they can expect further dividend hikes. If you purchase them at reasonable prices, you can increase the possibility for a good return.

Twelve of the 20 cheap Contenders with very low debt to equity ratios have a buy or better rating and four yield over three percent. Many insurer and banks are on the list. The financial sector is very strong.

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16 Top Dividend Contenders From Abroad

Foreign Dividend Contenders originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Everybody seeks for great opportunities on the stock market. If your equity base is not big enough in your home country, you need to look abroad for investment opportunities.

Today I like to show you all foreign Dividend Contenders(stocks with a dividend hike history between 10-25 years) with an U.S. Listing. 16 stocks fulfilled my criteria of which one is a High-Yield and nine are currently recommended to buy.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 30, 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 May 30, 2013. In total, 49 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.21%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Realty Income Corp.	O	9.57B	68.72	1.70	17.90	4.45%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	34.52B	12.43	114.63	0.74	4.27%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.	AEM	4.94B	19.19	1.43	2.65	3.08%
Kellogg Company	K	23.80B	25.58	8.42	1.63	2.72%
The Wendy's Company	WEN	2.40B	-	1.22	0.96	2.62%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	11.15B	15.14	1.15	1.21	2.42%
Associated Banc-Corp	ASBC	2.60B	14.93	0.89	3.65	2.06%
Polaris Industries, Inc.	PII	6.40B	20.16	8.73	1.95	1.80%
ITC Holdings Corp.	ITC	4.66B	24.25	3.20	5.47	1.70%
ManpowerGroup	MAN	4.43B	25.22	1.77	0.22	1.60%
Expeditors International of Washington	EXPD	8.18B	24.74	3.89	1.37	1.52%
Hillshire Brands Company	HSH	4.36B	55.31	10.32	1.09	1.41%
Nike Inc.	NKE	56.55B	25.11	5.30	2.25	1.33%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	2.58B	9.46	1.70	0.59	1.32%
Hartford Financial Services Group	HIG	13.96B	-	0.64	0.50	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	33.27B	9.69	2.01	1.08	1.20%
Silgan Holdings Inc.	SLGN	3.03B	22.88	5.93	0.84	1.18%
Ball Corporation	BLL	6.62B	17.87	6.16	0.76	1.17%
Fluor Corporation	FLR	10.47B	22.95	3.00	0.37	1.00%
Lufkin Industries Inc.	LUFK	2.99B	33.19	3.64	2.27	0.57%

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