Dogs Of The Dow Jones: A Compilation Of The Cheapest Stocks From The Index

Dogs of the Dow Jones originally published on “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Investing is hard work, especially when you don’t have a system or strategy to follow. An investing strategy helps you to avoid big failures and keeps you on track. One popular investing scheme is the dogs of the Dow Jones Strategy.

The Dogs of the Dow Jones Strategy is a popular investment rule or strategy which is used by many investors. The success is controversial. Some studies say that you can create an outperformance by following this rule; others say you don’t have a benefit from it.

The philosophy behind is to buy ten stocks of the Dow Jones with the highest dividend yield and lowest price to earnings ratio at the beginning of the year and to hold these stocks for a year. After this period, the investor should sell stocks that are no more Dogs of the Dow and buy therefore new Dogs of the Dow. Below is an updated sheet of the ten best Dogs of the Dow. They have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones index.

I’ve attached a full list of the current dogs of the Dow Jones in this article.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 02, 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, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 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
Chimera Investment Corporation	CIM	3.13B	27.64	0.98	17.72	11.84%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.32B	-	1.09	2.94	6.15%
Brandywine Realty Trust	BDN	2.05B	-	1.07	3.63	4.55%
DCT Industrial Trust Inc.	DCT	2.09B	-	1.51	7.36	3.89%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	18.87B	19.06	3.63	0.42	3.52%
Erie Indemnity Co.	ERIE	3.38B	23.76	5.23	0.58	3.27%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	76.08B	56.44	5.30	4.81	3.03%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	195.51B	8.63	0.99	3.63	2.94%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	58.16B	11.28	1.80	2.75	2.88%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	66.15B	11.67	2.04	2.62	2.35%
Gentex Corp.	GNTX	3.67B	20.47	3.04	3.38	2.19%
Medtronic, Inc.	MDT	53.77B	15.30	2.90	3.23	2.10%
Washington Federal Inc.	WAFD	2.15B	15.09	1.12	4.14	1.74%
Monsanto Co.	MON	55.74B	22.69	4.02	3.78	1.65%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	3.15B	44.24	1.34	10.90	1.64%
American Express Company	AXP	82.32B	18.56	4.33	2.40	1.22%
Torchmark Corp.	TMK	6.67B	12.83	1.75	1.80	0.94%
Steven Madden, Ltd.	SHOO	2.34B	19.50	3.55	1.87	-

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares - An Overview

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 week.

In total, 57 stocks go ex dividend - of which 20 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the next week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Oi SA	OIBR	3.21B	5.76	0.61	0.23	13.27%
Chimera Investment Corporation	CIM	3.14B	27.73	0.99	17.78	11.80%
Corrections Corporation of America	CXW	3.78B	12.45	2.52	2.17	5.45%
Brandywine Realty Trust	BDN	2.08B	-	1.09	3.70	4.47%
Kimco Realty Corporation	KIM	8.30B	59.91	1.76	8.67	4.12%
DCT Industrial Trust Inc.	DCT	2.12B	-	1.52	7.45	3.85%
The Toronto-Dominion Bank	TD	82.92B	13.47	1.87	3.81	3.66%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	18.99B	19.18	3.66	0.43	3.50%
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.	AEO	2.76B	12.79	2.29	0.80	3.49%
Erie Indemnity Co.	ERIE	3.43B	24.10	5.30	0.59	3.22%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	75.95B	56.34	5.29	4.81	3.03%
Cisco Systems, Inc.	CSCO	125.24B	12.54	2.12	2.58	2.91%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	197.59B	8.72	1.00	3.67	2.91%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	59.00B	11.26	1.82	2.74	2.84%
Raytheon Co.	RTN	25.58B	13.32	2.99	1.05	2.79%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	66.19B	11.67	2.04	2.62	2.35%
Gentex Corp.	GNTX	3.65B	20.37	3.02	3.36	2.20%
Medtronic, Inc.	MDT	53.51B	15.23	2.89	3.21	2.11%
Comcast Corporation	CMCSA	117.71B	17.68	2.40	1.84	1.74%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	3.12B	43.78	1.33	10.79	1.66%

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