Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 10, 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, 13 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.36%. 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
Ship Finance International	SFL	1.36B	9.22	1.12	4.80	9.89%
Fidus Investment Corporation	FDUS	264.00M	13.67	1.20	6.79	7.89%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	1.79B	16.89	1.47	7.89	6.67%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.48B	23.41	1.35	0.89	5.42%
Financial Institutions Inc.	FISI	262.55M	11.87	1.15	2.64	3.98%
Lumos Networks Corp.	LMOS	337.88M	17.88	4.69	1.61	3.52%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.98B	1317.50	1.87	1.17	2.62%
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.	GCAP	345.75M	19.44	1.93	1.77	2.06%
G&K Services Inc.	GK	1.03B	22.24	2.20	1.13	2.03%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.96B	27.41	1.36	1.92	1.99%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.72B	87.96	2.19	15.94	1.57%
American International Group	AIG	71.14B	10.83	0.73	1.12	0.83%

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9 High Beta Utilities | Good Yields At High Potential

Utility dividend stocks with highest beta ratios published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Utilities are necessary within the economy but they have huge problems to increase prices for utility products. Utility stocks normally have a lower volatility because of its stable revenue streams and income focused stakeholder structure. They are less risky than a high growth momentum stock with a highly priced business model that works only in the best dreams.

In today’s screen about the utilities with the highest beta ratio are only 9 stocks with a higher correlation to the broad market. This shows the real investment profile of utilities. Low growth, low risk and high debt as you might know it from real estate trusts.

Below the results are seven stocks with a buy or better rating. Only two big companies with a market capitalization over $10 billion are part of the results. Three are mid-capitalized.

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The Best Performing Utilities And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Utility dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Utilities are often high dividend payers but they also have high debt amounts and their growth abilities are very limited.

Normally, you should not expect higher capital gains due to the slow growth and high investment costs.

It’s surprising that the best performing utilities gained 18 percent to 80 percent within the first six months of the year. I my view, it’s a shift to quality business models with higher yields and stable returns. Investors look for investment alternatives outside the bond sector and utilities are a place to be for the time being.

You can find a small list of the 20 best performing utility dividend stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below 300 million. They are definitely too risky and some of them have an extraordinary high return. Lower valuated companies dominating the top results. The average market capitalization amounts to 3.6 billion.

Despite the large price increase of the stocks, twelve of them still have a buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 11, 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 11, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.41B	21.96	1.29	0.86	5.58%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	2.28B	22.37	1.86	10.44	5.26%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	2.76B	3.01	1.46	7.62	4.95%
Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd.	YZC	4.98B	4.92	0.69	0.53	4.94%
Lumos Networks Corp.	LMOS	340.29M	19.15	4.97	1.64	3.61%
DDR Corp.	DDR	6.20B	-	1.66	7.55	3.08%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.45B	15.17	1.74	1.68	2.95%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.81B	849.67	1.81	1.16	2.71%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.53B	22.94	1.31	1.78	2.14%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	19.63B	21.50	4.78	6.31	2.01%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.11B	66.08	1.95	14.18	1.73%
PolyOne Corporation	POL	2.49B	36.32	2.86	0.83	0.96%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.	JJSF	1.44B	23.63	2.91	1.67	0.84%
HDFC Bank Ltd.	HDB	6.01B	27.80	27.03	1.04	0.74%
Berry Petroleum Co.	BRY	2.46B	14.69	2.35	2.43	0.71%
AAON Inc.	AAON	779.52M	26.09	5.39	2.56	0.63%

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