Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 14, 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 August 14, 2013. In total, 57 stocks go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.18%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.85B	13.08	2.75	2.40	7.45%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	212.18B	8.98	1.20	0.47	5.11%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.96B	25.19	1.25	2.07	4.41%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.33B	54.80	2.47	1.27	3.44%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	48.80B	40.64	8.43	9.71	2.92%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.41B	-	1.20	2.02	2.44%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.71B	43.15	1.90	2.09	2.37%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.02B	7.88	1.66	0.21	2.15%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	12.07B	22.79	2.34	2.05	2.04%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	95.10B	19.22	3.52	1.54	2.03%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	81.37B	18.19	3.95	4.61	1.74%
Diageo plc	DEO	80.77B	21.06	7.57	4.56	1.71%
PACCAR Inc.	PCAR	19.96B	19.71	3.27	1.24	1.42%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	17.37B	16.82	6.89	1.11	1.22%
The Sherwin-Williams Company	SHW	18.08B	27.49	10.05	1.86	1.12%
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.	CF	11.24B	6.65	2.26	1.91	0.84%
Visa, Inc.	V	141.65B	30.99	5.25	12.28	0.73%
EQT Corporation	EQT	12.58B	47.21	3.30	6.51	0.14%

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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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34 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week | 24 Shares Have A Buy Rating

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 34 stocks announced a dividend hike last week. That’s a pretty increase compared to the recent weeks with only around 10 dividend hikers. We come back to old strength.

The biggest names on the list are the Brazil bank Itau Unibanco Holding, the oil and gas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan as well as the healthcare medical equipment stock Covidien.

24 of the dividend growth stocks from last week have a current buy or better rating and 10 are valuated with a P/E below 15.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 15, 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 May 15, 2013. In total, 53 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.22%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Veolia Environnement S.A.	VE	7.10B	679.50	0.75	0.19	5.74%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	226.27B	8.63	1.26	0.49	4.82%
AGL Resources Inc.	GAS	5.11B	17.29	1.45	1.21	4.35%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	50.63B	21.68	1.24	2.31	4.26%
Sonoco Products Co.	SON	3.59B	18.10	2.35	0.76	3.49%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	238.14B	9.29	1.70	1.00	3.26%
Black Hills Corporation	BKH	2.16B	22.32	1.71	1.82	3.12%
Apartment Investment & Management	AIV	4.70B	-	5.29	4.53	2.98%
Linear Technology Corp.	LLTC	8.83B	22.01	9.23	6.87	2.75%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	15.14B	21.82	1.85	3.53	2.64%
L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.	LLL	7.56B	10.11	1.37	0.57	2.62%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	55.81B	51.71	9.62	11.21	2.56%
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers	RBA	2.16B	27.41	3.31	4.94	2.42%
BOK Financial Corporation	BOKF	4.46B	12.47	1.47	5.70	2.34%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	87.29B	17.55	3.32	1.46	2.25%
Aqua America Inc.	WTR	4.50B	22.66	3.17	5.81	2.19%
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.	ALSN	4.34B	9.00	3.09	2.17	2.05%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	11.17B	22.20	2.15	1.89	2.00%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	12.02B	13.71	1.31	0.42	1.99%
Whirlpool Corp.	WHR	10.08B	18.18	2.25	0.56	1.96%

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