Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 03, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 7 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
Dynex Capital Inc.	DX	490.92M	5.76	0.99	3.87	12.09%
Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners	BEP	7.01B	-	2.35	5.27	5.43%
The First Bancorp, Inc.	FNLC	176.78M	14.12	1.21	3.53	4.68%
Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A.	BSBR	-	691.00	40.65	-	4.05%
Ennis Inc.	EBF	471.40M	14.93	1.26	0.90	3.88%
The Bank of South Carolina	BKSC	63.87M	16.31	1.86	5.07	3.34%
Golden Enterprises Inc.	GLDC	46.93M	40.00	1.95	0.34	3.25%
Terreno Realty Corp.	TRNO	338.24M	-	1.14	8.76	2.93%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	42.89M	-	1.16	2.29	2.17%
McCormick & Co. Inc.	MKC	8.57B	21.34	4.81	2.09	2.10%
Banner Corporation	BANR	744.13M	14.36	1.43	4.07	1.25%
Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.	TR	1.86B	35.40	2.88	3.42	1.03%
First Internet Bancorp	INBK	75.06M	11.65	1.23	3.13	0.92%
Shoe Carnival Inc.	SCVL	538.67M	17.89	1.76	0.60	0.89%
Curtiss-Wright Corp.	CW	2.22B	21.68	1.61	0.97	0.84%
Werner Enterprises Inc.	WERN	1.73B	18.55	2.35	0.86	0.84%
Limoneira Company	LMNR	342.68M	64.38	3.75	4.01	0.58%
Eagle Materials Inc.	EXP	3.62B	48.61	4.99	5.06	0.54%

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The Safest Dividend Aristocrats - 20 Potential Stocks To Beat The Down Going Market

Dividend Aristocrats with lowest beta ratios from the index originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

Dividend Aristocrats are wonderful income growth stocks. They have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 consecutive years and they are selected by the credit rating agency to be a constituent of the popular S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index.

Exactly 54 companies are part of the index but some of them are very volatile. They have a bigger risk and you can discover this by the beta ratio. Just in times of a weak and down going market, it’s good to have stocks with a very low beta ratio.

Below is a list of the 20 Dividend Aristocratswith the lowest beta ratio of the index. The ratios are between 0.16 and 0.64. Every stock on the list has a performance which represents roughly 20 to 60 percent of the overall market. In a falling market you will have a performance advantage.

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