Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 16, 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, 19 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 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
Physicians Realty Trust	DOC	154.20M	-	8.45	11.77	7.00%
Comtech Telecommunications	CMTL	450.48M	28.86	1.11	1.41	4.01%
Bridge Bancorp, Inc.	BDGE	204.44M	15.59	1.74	3.69	3.99%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	68.81M	14.25	1.09	0.54	3.16%
Procter & Gamble Co.	PG	216.24B	20.40	3.23	2.57	3.06%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	2.53B	21.67	5.22	0.96	2.83%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	4.92B	12.14	2.03	0.78	2.43%
US Ecology, Inc.	ECOL	567.30M	20.69	4.66	3.07	2.34%
Luxfer Holdings PLC	LXFR	477.00M	12.02	4.38	0.97	2.25%
Bon-Ton Stores Inc.	BONT	203.14M	151.50	4.09	0.07	1.89%
Resource America, Inc.	REXI	182.67M	-	1.24	2.90	1.78%
Pall Corp.	PLL	8.69B	26.88	4.79	3.28	1.42%
Thor Industries Inc.	THO	3.08B	20.32	3.45	0.95	1.24%
Oxford Industries Inc.	OXM	1.13B	30.16	4.56	1.27	1.05%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	4.15B	59.10	2.23	1.95	0.75%
Core Laboratories NV	CLB	8.04B	36.40	44.41	7.85	0.73%
Acuity Brands, Inc.	AYI	4.20B	33.45	4.23	2.01	0.53%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.55B	17.69	1.76	1.22	0.47%

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20 Highly Recommended Dividend Aristocrats And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Cheap Dividend Aristocrats with buy or better ratings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

Dividend Aristocrats are some of the best dividend income growth stock you can buy at the market. Those stocks have raised their cash distributions to shareholders over a period of more than 25 years without a break. For sure, it's no guarantee to receive a higher dividend next year but the possibility of a dividend hike is very high.

I wrote recently that high quality stocks are also highly priced and the Dividend Aristocrats are definitely highly priced. It’s very hard to find real bargains and to receive a good long-term total return.

Today I would like to give you an update of the most recommend stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with some fundamentals. 29 of 54 companies from the index have a current buy or better rating and nearly half of the results still have a low forward P/E of less than 15. That’s very interesting because all of the 20 most recommended Dividend Aristocrats have positive earnings per share predictions for the mid-term – in average 10.14 percent.

Below is a list of the 20 highest recommended Aristocrats with a detailed look on the three cheapest results.


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Bill Ackman’s Highest Yielding Dividend Stock Bets And His Complete Portfolio

Bill Ackman’s latest portfolio transactions and his biggest positions originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some of you might know Bill Ackman because of the phone battle against Carl Icahn on CNBC. He is an activist with around USD 10 billion in assets under management. In his management company “Pershing Square Capital” he has only 10 stock holdings.

As an activist, Ackman tries to increase pressure on the management of a company in order to implement own visions of the company’s future. Nearly half of his positions have voting rights over 10 percent.

His main investment focus is on defensive stocks from the consumer and industrial sector. Around 70 percent of his exposure is related to these two sectors.

Below is a small list of Bill Ackman’s latest Portfolio transactions. He is a lazy guy. Last quarter, he bought only one stock and he needed more than a year to complete his latest 20 transactions.

From his 20 latest transactions are 12 unique positions of which 10 pay dividends. Dividend payments are not in focus of Ackman’s investment strategy. Only one company yields above the 3 percent mark.

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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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Bill Gates’ Best Yielding Dividend Stocks | Biggest Bets Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and their highest yielding dividend stock buys originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Bill Gates is a self-made billionaire and started to manage his investments by himself. 

He created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which has assets of USD 18.1 billion under management. The money is distributed on 26 stocks. Bill’s approach is similar to the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett but he has his own investment style and invested money into different stock holdings.

Within the recent quarter, Bill bought no new stocks. Today I like to show you the latest 20 stock picks and the biggest positions of the trust. Bill is a great believer of Warren Buffett and he holds around USD 8.4 billion in Berkshire Hathaway shares. Additional billion stakes are Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola FEMSA.

Of his 20 latest transactions are 16 unique and twelve of them pay dividends.

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Warren Buffett’s Latest Buys and Sells | Berkshire Hathaway Q1/2013 Fund Portfolio

Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway Q1/2013 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Recently, Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha published his first quarter results and released the recent buys and sells.

Below is a current portfolio update of Warren Buffett’s - Berkshire Hathaway - portfolio movements as of Q1/2013 (March 31, 2013). In total, he has 41 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 85,001,344,000. Buffett bought two new companies and added nine additional stocks to his fund. The most important buys were Wells Fargo and Chicago Bridge & Iron Company.

In return, Buffett reduced three stocks and closed two positions completely. The biggest changer on the short side was General Dynamics.

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20 Mega Caps And Their Dividend Payments

Mega capitalized stocks and their dividends originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I often talk about large capitalized stocks and that they might offer a lower risk than small or micro caps.

It’s my general experience because I saw their business models and know that large capitalized companies are a compilation of several small and mid caps. Look at Procter & Gamble. They have a huge brand portfolio under the P&G corporate brand and a big part of them generate sales over a billion U.S. Dollar and employs thousands of people.

I believe that a compilation of 10 or 20 mid caps could be a better investment for investors because they can benefit from the corporate diversification. For sure, the price they pay is a lower performance compared to pureblooded stocks with a single business model. Stable dividends and systematic growth is my major focus and most of them are generated by higher capitalized stocks. That's the result of my research.

Today I like to give you an overview of the yields from mega caps. Those are companies with a market capitalization above the USD 200 billion mark. Only 20 listed companies have such a big market capitalization and 18 of them pay good dividends; 16 have a buy or better recommendation.

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20 Most Profitable Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats with highest operating margins originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend Aristocrats are some of the best dividend growth stocks with a proven dividend hike series of more than 25 years. But if you are a fundamental investor, you also look for a strength business. Margins are a good indicator for a healthy business.

The margins are important for investors. They show if a company is getting stronger or even weaker within its business area. A very high margin shows that the company has products with a big customer satisfaction and desire. Clients need those products and they pay a high price because they can’t find a better provider.
Sometimes margins are very high due to one-off effects. Basic material companies benefitted from high raw commodity prices. They are in a one-off situation which can also keep up for years.

Today I like to look at the Dividend Aristocrats list and show you the most profitable companies, measured by the highest operating margin. The index has 54 constituents and the top 20 stocks have a margin between 16 and 45 percent. That’s well above the index average. 14 of the results have a current buy or better rating.

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Top 100 Guru Buy List | Most Bought Stocks By Popular Investors

100 most bought stocks by investment gurus originally published on Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend counts also for professional investment gurus. Those are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management and a well known profile within the financial community. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.

Today I make like every month a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six months and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all combined bought 517 stocks within the recent half year.

The number one stock above all guru buys was Microsoft. The company is followed by the internet search provider Google who was bought by 11 investment gurus. Microsoft had 15 big investors on their side. Financial and technology stocks are still very popular.

74 stocks from the list pay dividends compared to 69 last month. It’s a shift to dividend stocks. Are they look more stability and cash compensation? 65 have a buy or better recommendation.

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