Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

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 18 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 stock:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.96B	18.05	2.39	7.57	6.37%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.75B	19.31	3.46	3.13	6.32%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	4.21B	37.23	1.60	2.97	6.23%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	10.15B	32.08	2.12	2.21	4.98%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.96B	60.93	0.97	2.76	4.00%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	97.53B	12.97	2.34	4.81	3.82%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.44B	13.34	1.17	3.87	3.62%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.14B	19.56	4.21	1.22	2.34%
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical	SHI	2.81B	177.64	1.04	0.18	2.10%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.60B	32.58	8.35	4.47	2.03%
Unum Group	UNM	8.48B	9.70	1.01	0.81	1.82%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.65B	-	3.54	1.57	1.78%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.16B	22.26	2.51	1.38	1.69%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	13.19B	-	2.26	2.08	1.53%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	50.85B	24.07	3.89	0.98	1.51%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.23B	18.30	4.24	1.26	0.95%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	3.17B	32.88	4.04	2.42	0.88%
SM Energy Company	SM	5.78B	-	3.78	3.09	0.11%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 21, 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, 9 stocks go ex dividend - of which 5 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 stock:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	894.52M	-	2.35	0.94	7.78%
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.93B	17.86	2.37	7.50	6.43%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.77B	19.49	3.49	3.16	6.26%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	1.34B	14.40	2.26	3.50	6.05%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.28B	24.99	2.15	12.88	5.23%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.10B	21.99	2.48	1.36	1.71%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	52.30B	24.76	4.00	1.01	1.47%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.15B	17.65	4.08	1.22	0.99%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	3.16B	32.71	4.02	2.41	0.88%

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20 Dividend Champions With Highest Cash Distribution Growth Rates Over The Short-Run

Dividend Champions with the fastest short-term dividend growth originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A growing dividend is normally a good sign for investors. The corporate shows two characteristics to their owners: Strength and power of a healthy and growing business.

The rate of dividend growth is in this context a great measure to judge the success of a business. A company with a 20 percent dividend growth rate must have a stronger growing underlying business than a corporate with a 3 percent growing dividend. The future looks rosy and the management team is more optimistic to share profits of the company at a high level.

Firms that hike dividends faster than inflation, deliver accelerated growth or maintain growth at a high level, can pass returns to shareholders.

Today I would like to present you the 20 fastest growing dividends from the Dividend Champions list over the short-run. 105 companies are part of the list which is a compilation of stocks with over 25 years of consecutive dividend growth.

And the winners are: Services and industrials. No other sectors have more constituents on the list. It was the best place to be in the past to gain a higher dividend. This is not equal to return or profits.

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16 Dividend Aristocrats With High Beta Ratios

Dividend income growth stocks with highest beta ratios published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a very long tradition in dividend growth. Those stocks hiked its dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The company selects 54 constituents for the index. All income investors love this index but he has also lacks.

Dividend Aristocrats normally have a lower volatility than other stocks. This could also be an disadvantage because you give up performance in a strong up moving market. The solution is simple: Look at high beta stocks. They can give you a better return when the market is very bullish.

I observed all current 54 Dividend Aristocrats by the highest rate of beta, starting with a value above one. Only 16 of them are more volatile than the overall market. It’s how I told it: Only a few Dividend Aristocrats, around 30 percent, are riskier than the market but they can also deliver you a better performance in return. For the time being, twelve of the High Beta Dividend Aristocrats have a buy or better rating.

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

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks July 22, 2013. In total, 13 stocks go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Select Income REIT Common Share	IR	1.09B	13.33	1.21	7.87	6.32%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	1.37B	16.04	2.55	3.62	5.91%
MVC Capital, Inc.	MVC	308.57M	432.33	0.79	13.36	4.16%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares	NHTB	105.41M	12.65	0.81	2.83	3.48%
The Clorox Company	CLX	11.45B	20.38	75.67	2.04	3.26%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	48.19B	25.45	3.64	0.96	1.63%
Brinks Co.	BCO	1.35B	15.40	2.86	0.35	1.43%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	2.54B	30.90	3.40	1.97	1.03%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.50B	19.37	4.61	1.44	0.85%
VSE Corp.	VSEC	247.03M	9.52	1.45	0.47	0.77%
The Cooper Companies Inc.	COO	6.14B	21.64	2.65	3.99	0.05%

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