Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 12, 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, 192 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 95 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.02%. 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
Ares Capital Corporation	ARCC	4.72B	8.33	1.09	5.87	8.57%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	70.03B	15.97	19.65	2.88	5.49%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.62B	14.49	3.10	1.74	5.12%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	8.34B	15.80	2.48	3.12	4.22%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.54B	-	1.78	7.45	4.07%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.61B	16.47	1.54	1.25	3.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	4.82B	33.60	3.15	10.27	3.69%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.91B	16.58	1.37	1.80	3.59%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	144.42B	28.56	3.04	3.22	3.58%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.12B	21.25	4.56	4.33	3.47%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.09B	15.25	3.95	1.51	3.41%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	18.12B	-	1.32	9.46	3.00%
UGI Corp.	UGI	4.44B	16.32	1.78	0.63	2.91%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	171.75B	20.44	5.33	3.61	2.90%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.41B	46.12	-	5.80	2.89%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.26B	23.73	1.68	2.72	2.84%
Owens & Minor Inc.	OMI	2.18B	21.10	2.21	0.24	2.76%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.31B	11.75	11.11	1.86	2.69%
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.	FNF	5.60B	9.21	1.28	0.65	2.57%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	2.17B	16.19	0.80	0.95	2.52%

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50 Shares With Fastest Dividend Growth In July 2013

Stocks with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividends are back: The numbers of shares with a solid dividend grow accelerated within the recent weeks to old levels and a few big names are below the fastest growing dividend stocks from the past month. Names like McKesson, Wendy’s or Hershey. You might have noticed the dividend growth if you read some of the latest articles on my blog.

Today would like to give you an update of the 50 fastest dividend growers from the recent month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 45.11 percent. Four of the 50 dividend growers have a double-digit dividend yield and ten a high-yield over 5 percent. Around half of the results still have a buy or better rating.

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Williams Partners (WPZ) Hiked Dividends By 1.77% And 7 Others Followed

Yesterday was a good day in terms of dividend growth. Eight companies raised their dividend payments. The biggest stock was the specialty chemical company Williams Partners. WPZ announced a 1.76 percent dividend hike and yields at 6.67 percent. The company has a rosy future. Analysts are expecting earnings per share to grow by at least 12 percent over the next five years. Only the high debt to equity ratio of 4.20 gives investors a bad taste.

Seven of eight companies with dividend growth on the last trading day have a market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion. Oil and gas companies are the most represented stocks.

The highest yielding stock is the drilling and explorations company Legacy Reserves with a 8.22 percent dividend yield. LGCY raised its quarterly dividends by 0.87 percent, yesterday.

The latest Dividend Growth Stock List

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Blueknight Engy Ptrs GP	5.50	2.13%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/14/2013
Calumet Specialty Prdts	8.25	0.74%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/14/2013
Crane Co	1.90	7.14%	Quarterly	8/28/2013	9/10/2013
Legacy Reserves LP	8.29	0.87%	Quarterly	7/30/2013	8/14/2013
Northwest Bancorp	3.66	8.33%	Quarterly	7/30/2013	8/15/2013
Oiltanking Partners LP	3.55	4.94%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/14/2013
Rayonier Inc.	3.34	11.36%	Quarterly	9/12/2013	9/30/2013
Williams Partners	6.67	1.77%	Quarterly	7/31/2013	8/9/2013

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