Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 03, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 7 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
Dynex Capital Inc.	DX	490.92M	5.76	0.99	3.87	12.09%
Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners	BEP	7.01B	-	2.35	5.27	5.43%
The First Bancorp, Inc.	FNLC	176.78M	14.12	1.21	3.53	4.68%
Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A.	BSBR	-	691.00	40.65	-	4.05%
Ennis Inc.	EBF	471.40M	14.93	1.26	0.90	3.88%
The Bank of South Carolina	BKSC	63.87M	16.31	1.86	5.07	3.34%
Golden Enterprises Inc.	GLDC	46.93M	40.00	1.95	0.34	3.25%
Terreno Realty Corp.	TRNO	338.24M	-	1.14	8.76	2.93%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	42.89M	-	1.16	2.29	2.17%
McCormick & Co. Inc.	MKC	8.57B	21.34	4.81	2.09	2.10%
Banner Corporation	BANR	744.13M	14.36	1.43	4.07	1.25%
Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.	TR	1.86B	35.40	2.88	3.42	1.03%
First Internet Bancorp	INBK	75.06M	11.65	1.23	3.13	0.92%
Shoe Carnival Inc.	SCVL	538.67M	17.89	1.76	0.60	0.89%
Curtiss-Wright Corp.	CW	2.22B	21.68	1.61	0.97	0.84%
Werner Enterprises Inc.	WERN	1.73B	18.55	2.35	0.86	0.84%
Limoneira Company	LMNR	342.68M	64.38	3.75	4.01	0.58%
Eagle Materials Inc.	EXP	3.62B	48.61	4.99	5.06	0.54%

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20 Dividend Champions With Highest YTD Performance And Still Low P/E’s

Dividend Champions with highest performance year-to-date originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Around 104 stocks from the American capital market have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years without a break. They are real dividend champions. Today I like to show you which of them have realized the highest performance since the start of the year. You can also find a detail stock picture of the Dividend Champions with the cheapest price-to-earnings ratio.

The top 20 performing dividend Champions had a return between 20.16 percent and 37.25 percent. It’s a very mixed picture of stocks.

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Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratios

Consumer goods dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Consumer goods stocks are often the most preferred source for dividend growth investors. I don’t know why but the consumer sector has the largest amount of stocks with a solid dividend history. They are less volatile and work with good margins. For sure, the growth perspectives are not a good as for technology stocks and the debt is also everything else than slim but they are still attractive.

Today I like to close my monthly article serial about dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. Here are the links from the serial:

· 20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Industrials With Highest Bets On A Falling Stock Price

· 20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

· 20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks

· 8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Technology Dividend Stocks, Most Shorted By Investors

· 13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Today I like to look at the consumer goods stocks and excluded stocks with a market capitalization below 300 million as well as stocks without dividends.

My top 20 stocks have a float short ratio between 8.21 percent and 28.92 percent. The highest short selling stock is Pitney Bowes. The company is followed by the auto parts seller Monro Muffler Brake.

Despite the huge number of pessimistic investors, analysts recommended 13 of the results.

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