Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 29, 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, 64 stocks go ex dividend - of which 18 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69%. 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
Realty Income Corp.	O	7.83B	56.38	1.76	12.93	5.45%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	39.50B	13.79	57.01	0.85	3.74%
McDonald's Corp.	MCD	94.97B	17.37	6.26	3.42	3.25%
NV Energy, Inc.	NVE	5.59B	17.32	1.57	1.90	3.20%
Kellogg Company	K	22.43B	23.26	8.77	1.51	2.99%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.	AEM	5.38B	28.34	1.57	3.09	2.82%
The Wendy's Company	WEN	2.98B	253.00	1.52	1.18	2.64%
Northrop Grumman Corporation	NOC	21.75B	11.54	2.27	0.86	2.63%
BlackRock, Inc.	BLK	44.19B	16.82	1.73	4.51	2.59%
M&T Bank Corporation	MTB	14.67B	12.91	1.49	4.94	2.45%
GameStop Corp.	GME	5.82B	-	2.70	0.68	2.23%
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.	ANF	2.78B	13.13	1.65	0.63	2.22%
Hillshire Brands Company	HSH	3.98B	21.74	8.24	1.02	2.16%
Nordstrom Inc.	JWN	11.07B	15.02	5.45	0.89	2.12%
Hartford Financial Services	HIG	13.39B	-	0.70	0.47	2.02%
Associated Banc-Corp	ASBC	2.69B	15.09	0.96	3.79	1.98%
The Interpublic Group of Comp.	IPG	6.66B	20.08	3.14	0.95	1.92%
ITC Holdings Corp.	ITC	4.62B	23.83	3.07	5.23	1.91%
Martin Marietta Materials Inc.	MLM	4.44B	45.36	3.16	2.17	1.66%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.97B	15.07	-	2.42	1.59%

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26 Stocks Raised Dividends Over The Past Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth matters and has significant influence to your asset strategy. A higher dividend in the future also lifts your passive income from stock investing. It’s a good method to boost your total return.

Out there are many studies, telling you that nearly half of the average return on the stock market is responsible to dividend payments. That’s a huge number in my view but what if we are trying to find the best dividend stocks, stocks that are better than the average? I think about companies that pay in ten years more dividends to you than you have ever paid for the whole investment.

I strongly believe that this strategy will deliver good returns. The only problem is to discover these growth stocks that are willing to give you huge amounts of money back.

However, one way to get some ideas of the greatest dividend growth stocks is to look at the current lists of dividend growers. On my blog I publish on a regular basis these lists.

Last week, 26 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 25.49 percent.

Five of the results have a high yield of more than five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 16 of the latest dividend growth stocks.

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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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