Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 August 15, 2013. In total, 54 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.86%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
The GEO Group, Inc.	GEO	2.45B	13.13	2.37	1.58	5.79%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	2.92B	55.02	2.37	5.42	4.83%
Tronox Limited	TROX	2.60B	1.54	1.05	1.39	4.36%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.65	1.01	3.27%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	15.14B	11.80	0.40	0.24	3.08%
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional	SID	4.88B	-	1.27	0.58	2.99%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.00B	9.56	0.79	0.95	2.89%
United Parcel Service, Inc.	UPS	82.71B	101.99	22.84	1.52	2.83%
American Water Works	AWK	7.57B	20.69	1.68	2.64	2.63%
L-3 Communications Holdings	LLL	8.39B	11.11	1.50	0.63	2.36%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	2.17B	12.35	4.51	1.41	2.33%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.08B	13.89	1.99	0.49	2.27%
Allison Transmission Holdings	ALSN	4.26B	35.29	2.98	2.19	2.09%
j2 Global, Inc.	JCOM	2.37B	19.86	3.68	5.27	1.84%
Tim Hortons Inc.	THI	9.01B	22.52	7.52	2.95	1.70%
AmerisourceBergen Corporation	ABC	13.43B	22.98	5.55	0.16	1.44%
SemGroup Corporation	SEMG	2.32B	37.58	2.10	1.92	1.39%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	4.72B	20.88	3.03	3.24	1.08%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.50B	29.24	7.43	1.74	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	15.82B	75.99	6.92	10.62	0.11%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 16, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Seaspan Corp.	SSW	1.45B	28.52	1.15	2.19	5.48%
Giant Interactive Group	GA	1.92B	11.96	3.73	5.47	5.24%
Select Medical Holdings	SEM	1.15B	8.22	1.55	0.39	4.87%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	4.02B	17.22	1.58	1.17	3.15%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.32B	6.15	0.78	0.96	2.75%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	37.56B	17.77	1.49	1.85	2.74%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	1.99B	11.62	4.27	1.30	2.56%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	62.28B	20.45	4.63	1.65	2.07%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.20B	15.31	2.14	0.51	2.01%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.33B	16.91	2.91	1.81	1.66%
Hanesbrands Inc.	HBI	5.01B	16.61	5.28	1.11	1.57%
Bunge Limited	BG	10.61B	28.75	0.93	0.17	1.50%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	3.50B	16.34	2.35	2.49	1.46%
Moody's Corp.	MCO	14.86B	21.44	32.53	5.28	1.20%
Watts Water Technologies	WTS	1.66B	23.55	1.77	1.15	1.11%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.54B	17.91	2.38	1.35	0.87%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.00B	29.63	7.74	1.69	0.70%

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60 Stocks And 6 Funds Raised Dividend Payments Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week was an interesting one because some of the big players announced a dividend hike, in-line with the expectations of the market. They are still continuing long-term dividend grower. Below the results are IBM, PepsiCo, Costco, American Express or Royal Dutch. 

In total, 60 shares and six ETFs announced a hike, in average a 30.05 percent increase. Eleven of them pay a high yields; 37 have a current buy or better recommendation. 

The markets are at All-Time-Highs and nobody scares this. I hate it when stocks getting more expensive and yields go rapidly down because I must limit my stock purchases. In such an environment, a dividend growth investor can’t build values when a slow growing stock pays a 1.5 percent yield - a value similar to the bond market yields. Let’s hope that earnings and sales grow in the same amount.

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