Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 19, 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, 17 stocks go ex dividend - of which 9 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
New York Mortgage Trust Inc.	NYMT	393.85M	6.75	0.98	1.78	16.17%
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	3.03B	-	0.80	2.47	7.85%
Total	TOT	129.04B	10.21	1.36	0.55	4.71%
Universal Insurance Holdings	UVE	271.74M	7.11	1.74	0.92	4.28%
New Jersey Resources Corp.	NJR	1.78B	14.19	1.99	0.59	3.75%
CapLease, Inc.	LSE	753.07M	-	1.90	4.38	3.62%
DDR Corp.	DDR	5.08B	-	1.75	6.02	3.37%
General Electric Company	GE	250.93B	17.46	2.05	1.72	3.11%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.56B	44.38	4.86	10.42	3.10%
Equity Residential	EQR	19.62B	606.11	1.91	8.81	2.93%
EXCO Resources Inc.	XCO	1.54B	-	4.04	2.64	2.80%
Pinnacle Foods Inc.	PF	3.17B	43.76	2.09	1.29	2.61%
Huntsman Corporation	HUN	4.67B	46.43	2.73	0.43	2.56%
American Tower Corporation	AMT	29.23B	46.20	8.31	9.45	1.46%
Omnicare Inc.	OCR	5.78B	27.13	1.65	0.94	1.00%
IF Bancorp, Inc.	IROQ	67.44M	19.72	0.79	3.83	0.63%

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8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

Most sold short utility dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to look at the most shorted dividend stocks from the utility sector. I observed only stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million and a float short ratio over 5 percent.

Only eight companies have a capital stake with more than 5 percent of short sellers. Utilities are very unpopular in terms of borrowing shares and selling them with hope to cause a stock crash.

I often told that one of the characteristics of a utility stock is the stability. But the price you pay is the low growth and high debt. The capital intensive business model doesn’t allow it to expand the balance sheet without capital increases.

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