21 Stocks With Bigger Dividends

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Attached you find a full list of the latest dividend growers of the recent week. In total, 21 companies raised their dividend cash distributions to shareholders of which 18 are currently recommended to buy.

Big names are on the list like Siemens or Disney.

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The Latest Big Dividend Stock Buys From James Barrow

James Barrow’s latest dividend stock buys and his portfolio originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

James Barrow is a relatively unknown fund managers but he has big influence on Wall-Street. His assets under management exceeded the 55 billion mark in his investment firm Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss. This money was spread on 159 stocks of which 7 were completely new. James follows a value-oriented investment strategy.

James is a real dividend large cap lover. Nearly all of his latest 20 big stock acquisitions pay dividends. In addition, James is a much diversified guy. None of his stakes is extremely overweighed. The biggest position is the tobacco company Philip Morris and has a portfolio share of 3.5 percent while the 10th biggest stock holding weights only at 1.8 percent.

Compared to other fund managers, his performance is also weak in the short term. Over the past three years, the excess return was only 3.3 percent in total. His five-year advance is a bit better with 14 percent excess gain but over 10 years, his performance is 27.8 percent weaker than the S&P 500. Over a very long period of 15 years, he beat the market by 49.4 percent excess gain.

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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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