Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of May

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Sierra Bancorp	BSRR	5/3/2016	2.7%
Cardinal Financial	CFNL	5/3/2016	2.2%
Delek Logistics Partners MLP	DKL	5/3/2016	7.5%
Dynagas LNG Partners	DLNG	5/3/2016	10.9%
First Niagara Financial	FNFG	5/3/2016	3.0%
Heritage Financial	HFWA	5/3/2016	2.6%
Idacorp	IDA	5/3/2016	2.8%
KKR & Co L P	KKR	5/3/2016	4.5%
Eaton Corp	ETN	5/4/2016	3.6%
Heidrick & Struggles	HSII	5/4/2016	2.6%
Independent Bank	IBCP	5/4/2016	2.1%
Intel Corp	INTC	5/4/2016	3.3%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 
Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Over 20 Stocks Reporting Earnings Next Week

Looking for some interesting moves in some stocks next week. Check out the companies that will be reporting earnings this week.

If earnings exceed analysts' expectations, the stocks can shoot up. If the numbers underperform, the stock can tank. Then again, occasionally, stocks don't move the way you would have expected.

Anyway, many traders use earnings plays for trading strategies. Also, option traders look for high implied volatility of stocks for for option selling strategies.

Here are many of the stocks reporting earnings this week:

Monday

Halliburton HAL

Tuesday

BP BP
3M Company MMM
Apple AAPL
Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG
eBay EBAY
AT&T T
Twitter TWTR

Wednesday

Boeing BA
United Technologies UTX
Facebook FB
Texas InstrumentsTXN

Thursday

Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY
ConocoPhillips COP
Ford F
Mastercard MA
Altria MO
Amazon AMZN
Amgen AMGN
LinkedIn LNKD

Friday

Chevron CVX
ExxonMobile XOM

If you like interesting stock lists like this, check out many of the free stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

By Stockerblog.com

Several Business and Tech Domains For Sale at Sedo Auction

Sedo, the large domain auction house, is currently auctioning off many domain names, several of which are business and technology related. If you are looking for an interesting and unique domain, you might be able to pick on up at a reasonable price. Some have minimum bids of only one dollar.

Here are a few that may be of interest to you:

boardroom.com

chat.org

vp.tv

china.pro

ebusiness.it

manufacture.net

tieandsuit.com

korean.tv

fireinsurances.com

The auction ends on April 28 at approximately 12PM EST.

You can get more info by going to the following link:

https://sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?rel=2&orderdirection=2&listing_type%5B%5D=4&auction_event%5B%5D=387&et_cid=&et_lid=&et_sub=GD_April&language=us

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fifth Week of April

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Cal-Maine Foods	CALM	4/25/2016	5.5%
Brookfield Canada Office Prop	BOXC	4/27/2016	4.0%
NiSource	NI	4/27/2016	2.7%
STAG Industrial, Inc.	STAG	4/27/2016	7.1%
Student Transportation Inc	STB	4/27/2016	10.9%
Williams Sonoma	WSM	4/27/2016	2.7%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	4/28/2016	5.7%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	4/28/2016	2.6%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 
Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fourth Week of April

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Comtech Telecomm	CMTL	4/18/2016	5.3%
Horizon Technology Finance Corp.	HRZN	4/18/2016	12.8%
SLM Corp	SLMAP	4/18/2016	7.4%
Pentair Inc.	PNR	4/20/2016	2.5%
Pembina Pipeline	PBA	4/21/2016	7.5%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 
Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

The Perfect Investment Bites the Dust

The Perfect Investment ?

Even perfect investments aren't perfect. Back in February of 2012, I wrote about a perfect investment with the following attributes:

1. Almost 3% average annualized return on your investment
2. Inflation-proof
3. Short term or long term investment: your choice
4. Guaranteed by the United States Government
5. No minimum investment
6. An easily transferable bearer investment with no registration required
7. The investment will never go down in value

Then in November of that same year, I described how the perfect investment would return 2.2% in just two months! In addition, I mentioned one other benefit: the entire investment may be deductible.

Unfortunately, the seventh benefit listed above didn't hold true.

Do you know what this 'perfect' investment is, or should I say, was? The Forever Stamp issued by the United States Postal Service. No matter what you pay for the stamps and how much the cost of first class postage increases in value, the Forever Stamp could still be used to mail a one ounce letter.

Yet on Monday of this week, the Post Office did something almost unheard of. It REDUCED the cost of first class postage from 49 cents to 47 cents for the first ounce. This is a drop in value of 4.1%.

So the bad news is that if you had stocked up on Forever Stamps at 49 cents, you would have lost money. But if you had bought the stamps back in 2012 at 45 cents, you would still be ahead. Plus, if you never stocked up on these stamps, you would benefit now because postage would now cost you less.

Wouldn't it be nice if the government reduced our taxes the same way?

Interesting and Unusual Facts About Warren Buffett

Here are many little known facts and trivia about Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B):

1. Warren Buffett's father was a republican congressman.

2. Warren Buffett is of Huguenot ancestry.

3. His first stock purchase was three shares of Cities Service Preferred purchased when he was eleven years old.

4. When he was fourteen years old, he filed his first tax return, which listed his watch and bicycle as a tax deduction of $35 for his paper route.

5. He was a capitalist at a very young age, not only delivering newspapers, but selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door, selling golf balls, and selling Coca-Cola (KO).

6. He owned a chain of pinball machines in various barber shops when he was fifteen years old.

7. In his high school yearbook, under his picture, it says 'likes math; a future stock broker.'

8. He received his B.S. in Economics from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln when he was only 19 years old.

9. He paid $31,500 for the Omaha house he lives in today (although he bought it 52 years ago).

10. He owned a house in Laguna Beach, California

11. Buffett attended Columbia Business School because Benjamin Graham and David Dodd taught there.

12. In 1951, he received a M.S. in Economics from Columbia Business School.

13. He made almost $10,000 by the age of 20 in 1950.

14. Buffett's father and Benjamin Graham told him not to work on Wall Street.

15. He taught a night class at the University of Nebraska-Omaha called Investment Principals.

16. He owned a Sinclair Texaco gas station in his early 20's.

17. His starting salary at Benjamin Graham's company was $12,000 a year.

18. When he was 26 years old, he had $174,000 in savings.

19. He became a millionaire in 1962.

20. Buffett first bought Berkshire Hathaway stock at $7.60 per share.

If you like interesting trivia like this, you should check out the following books:

Stock Market Trivia: Special Section on the Weird Words of Wall Street

Stock Market Trivia Volume 2: Who Says Wall Street is Boring?

The above is copyrighted material from the Stock Market Trivia book, reprinted with permission of the author.

Seven Top Stocks Under $7 per Share All Paying Dividends

Do you like low priced stocks? I like low priced stocks. Some studies say that the returns on low priced stocks outperform higher priced stocks, and some studies say that there is no difference in returns and you have the same chance of a percentage return on a low price as a high priced stock. That being said, there is still a psychological benefit to buying a low priced stock as it seems like a better deal.

Often low priced stocks are indicative of lower quality companies. But there are alway gems in the junk. Here are several examples, all of which pay dividends.

Computer Task Group Inc. (CTG), in the business of IT solutions and staffing services company, sells for a little over $5 a share. The stock trades at 13 times trailing earnings and 15 times forward earnings. It pays a generous yield of 4.7%.

Digirad Corporation (DRAD) provides diagnostic solutions, and it also sells for around $5 a share. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 5 and a forward P/E of 15. It also pays a healthy yield amounting to 4.1%.

The investment management company Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG), trades for around $4.60 per share, with a trailing P/E of 15 and a forward P/E of 5. The stock sports a very high yield of 6.7%.

The Hong Kong based company, Highway Holdings Limited (HIHO), has a great stock ticker symbol. It markets metal, plastic, electric, and electronic components. Trading for this stock, which is at $4.50, is very light. The stock trades at 15 times earnings and yields an extremely high 8.8%.

GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (GSB) is a provider of software applications and cloud solutions, with a trailing P/E of 18 and a forward P/E of 13. The yield is a moderate yield of 1.6%. The stock currently trades at $3.88 per share.

LRAD Corporation (LRAD) markets directed sound technologies and products. The stock trades at 6 times earnings and pays a yield of 2.3%. The stock sells for less than $2 per share.

Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (MGIC) is an Israeli company that provides application development and software solutions, and sells for about $6.50 per share. The stock trades at 18 times trailing earnings and 8 times forward earnings. It pays a decent yield of 2.7%.

Hopefully, many of these low priced stocks will become high priced stocks. If you like interesting stocks lists like this, check out many of the free lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Third Week of April

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

General Electric Capital B	GEB	4/12/2016	4.6%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	4/13/2016	4.1%
Abbott Labs	ABT	4/13/2016	2.5%
Arlington Asset Investment	AIW	4/13/2016	8.9%
Ampco Pitts Corp	AP	4/13/2016	5.1%
Saul Centers  REIT	BFS	4/13/2016	3.7%
Cracker Barrel	CBRL	4/13/2016	2.9%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 
Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of April

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Commercial Metals CMC 4/4/2016 3.4% Cisco Systems CSCO 4/4/2016 3.7% CVB Financial CVBF 4/4/2016 2.8% Erie Indemnity ERIE 4/4/2016 3.1% First National Lincoln Corp FNLC 4/4/2016 4.5% The Gap Inc. GPS 4/4/2016 3.1% JP Morgan Chase JPM 4/4/2016 3.0% Kite Realty Group  REIT KRG 4/4/2016 4.3% Kohlberg Capital KCAP 4/5/2016 16.7% American Eagle Outfitters AEO 4/6/2016 3.0% Barnes & Noble BKS 4/6/2016 4.9%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 
Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

20 Year Old Turns $20 into $20 Million Trading Stocks in 20 Days

Stock trading millionaire student after
a long day of trading

A San Diego, California based 20 year old student named William Mendax had saved up $20 from his part time student job working in the cafeteria at San Diego State University, and decided to put his money to work. He is a business major and has been doing a lot of studying of the stock market, so he decided to try his hand at trading.

After only twenty business days, he turned his $20 initial investment into an amazing $20,000,000, all from just trading stocks. He has decided to quit college and retire.

He did it by first investing in 2000 shares of a stock with the symbol FICT at a penny a share, which later jumped to $1.25 per share, generating proceeds of $2,500.

He took that money and bought 10,000 share of YWVU at 25 cents per share. When he sold out at 4.50 per share, he garnered $45,000.

With those proceeds, he invested in 30,000 shares of ABAD for $1.50, and was able to sell out at $3.30 per share which gave him slightly less than $100,000.

He took the $99,000 proceeds and bought his first higher priced shares. He paid $12 per share for 8,250 shares of VANUS. The stock rose to $18.50 per share, giving him $152,625.

At that time, he decided to go back to trading the lower priced stocks, so he used his proceeds to buy 1,526,250 shares of PERX at 10 cents per share. Fortunately for him, the stock rose to 90 cents per share. This now provided him with working capital of $1,373,625.

Finally, he bought 45,787,500 shares of IAPR at three cents per share, which shortly spiked to 44 cents per share, ending up with $20,146,500. Not to shabby for four weeks work.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above stocks at the time the article was written. Please note the date of this article.