Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 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.

                                                                                                                                                      

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks June 25, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
James Hardie Industries SE	JHX	3.88B	84.60	209.48	2.94	8.41%
Healthcare Trust of America	HTA	2.39B	-	1.80	7.82	5.27%
Cypress Semiconductor	CY	1.53B	-	9.71	2.02	4.20%
Getty Realty Corp.	GTY	677.63M	49.49	1.80	6.89	3.94%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	143.96B	16.79	-	1.85	3.89%
Covanta Holding Corporation	CVA	2.57B	25.38	2.69	1.58	3.33%
Glen Burnie Bancorp	GLBZ	34.24M	13.90	1.03	2.22	3.20%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	11.66B	12.91	1.94	2.80	3.01%
ProAssurance Corporation	PRA	3.17B	9.55	1.34	4.33	1.95%
International Flavors & Fragrances	IFF	6.23B	23.94	4.77	2.19	1.78%
Embraer SA	ERJ	6.70B	24.58	2.05	1.10	0.22%

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22 Dividend Boosters From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 13 stocks and 9 funds announced a dividend hike within the recent week. The number of dividend growers remains weak.

The biggest names on the list are United Health and Lowe’s as well as Fedex. In addition, five companies cut dividends and one announced a special initial dividend.

I know it’s hard to manage dividend growth especially when the company is acting within a very cyclic industry. But dividend growth is an expression to shareholders about the company’s success and the willingness to share profits with the ownership of the company.

10 of the 13 stocks are currently recommended to buy.

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