Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of November

  Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. 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. In flat or choppy markets, you have to be extremely careful, and may need to avoid the technique during those times.

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 during the next week or two. The list contains many dividend paying companies, all with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the yield, and the market capitalization.

Intel Corporation (INTC)  11/5/2012 4.2% $108.0B

Navios Maritime Partners L.P. (NMM) 11/6/2012 11.6% $932.7M

Highwoods Properties Inc (HIW) 11/7/2012 5.2% $2.5B

Walgreen Company (WAG) 11/7/2012 3.0% $33.3B

Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED) 11/9/2012 4.0% $17.5B

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 the high yield utility stocks and the Monthly Dividend Stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com.

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.

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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 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.

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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 Third Week of August 2012

  Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. 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. In flat or choppy markets, you have to be extremely careful, and may need to avoid the technique during those times.

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 during the next week or two. The list contains many dividend paying companies, all with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the market capitalization, the ex-dividend date and the yield.



Cliffs Natural Resources Inc
CLF
8/13/2012
5.4%
$6.6B
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.
ARR
8/13/2012
16.1%
$1.7B
International Paper Company
IP
8/13/2012
3.3%
$14.1B
Eli Lilly & Co.
LLY
8/13/2012
4.4%
$51.3B
Shaw Communications Inc.
SJR
8/13/2012
5.0%
$8.1B
Fifth Street Finance Corp.
FSC
8/13/2012
11.4%
$829.2M
Duke Energy Corp
DUK
8/15/2012
4.6%
$46.6B
H&R Real Estate Inv Trust
HRUFF
8/15/2012
4.8%
$4.6B
Sonoco Products Company
SON
8/15/2012
4.1%
$3.0B
Speedway Motorsports, Inc.
TRK
8/15/2012
3.5%
$703.1M
Walgreen Company
WAG
8/15/2012
3.2%
$29.7B



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 the high yield utility stocks and the Monthly Dividend Stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com.

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 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.

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

Health Care Stocks that have Raised Dividends for Over 30 Years

Whether you like the new health care plan or hate the new health care plan, most people would agree that health will be a growing business during the next twenty years, with the baby boomers moving to an age where medical care and medicine becomes ubiquitous. Income investors who are looking for stocks to own for the long term should consider stocks relating to health and medicine in some way.

Surprisingly, there are five health care related stocks that have increased their dividends more than 32 years in a row, according to the Dividend Increasing Stocks list at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com. For example, the large pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories (ABT) has boosted its dividend every year for 38 years and currently sports a yield of 3.7%. The company, which has been around since 1888, has four divisions: pharmaceutical products, diagnostic products, nutritional products, and vascular products. The stock trades at ten times forward earnings.

Walgreen Co. (WAG) could also be considered a health care company as it operates over 8,000 drugstores all over the United States. The company's dividend has been bumped up for 35 years in a row and provides a current yield of 2%. The stock has a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 12.

Helping to get us through the cold season (pun intended) is Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) which manufactures the famous Kleenex brand of tissues. The company also makes incontinence care products, surgical gowns, rubber exam gloves, infection control products, face masks, respiratory products, pain management products, and numerous other health care products. The stock currently yields a nice CD beating 4.2%, and has increased dividends every year for 38 years. It trades at 12 times forward earnings.

If you want to check out the other health care dividend increasers, including one that has increased its dividend for an amazing 48 years in a row, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com for the free downloadable Excel list which can be sorted and updated.

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

By Stockerblog.com

Why Dividend Increasing Stocks are the Way to Go

What Stock has Raised its Dividends for 54 Years in a Row?

Over the course of the last few years, the Dow Jones has lacked consistency, presenting a volatile platform of figures that are making investors ever more hesitant. What market analysts are now seeing is the growth and solidarity contained in dividend stocks, exposing growth stocks as being somewhat precarious.

Mark Skousen, editor of the Forecasts & Strategies newsletter, said at the San Francisco Money Show a couple days ago that over long periods of time, dividend stocks outperform non-dividend stocks, and dividend-increasing stocks outperform dividend stocks in general. This finding is not being ignored as dividend investors see a much better long-term return when investing in dividend stocks, especially those that increase their dividends regularly.

One of the main reasons why dividend increasing stocks are proving to be so much more lucrative is that they embody a select group of companies which have enough in earnings to reinvest back into the business itself, but have plenty left over to distribute to shareholders. Rising profits also means rising dividends for shareholders, which ultimately equates to rising stock prices in the long term.

During the last few months, while some of the major players have been looking rather shaky, companies that have increased their distributions are causing analysts and investors to re-think their choice of investments. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has turned up a list of over 20 stocks that have had dividend increases over 30 years. One company has increased its dividend every year for 54 years! Can you guess which company it is?

I can almost guarantee that you use at least one of their products on a regular basis. You have either shaved with them, brushed with them, flossed with them, wiped with them, shampooed with them, or washed with them. The company was founded in 1837, so it's been around for a little while, and appears to have some staying power. Probably that staying power is do to the fact that people will always brush, wash, and wipe, whether there is a recession, a depression, a booming economy, deflation, or inflation.

Have you guessed the name of the company yet? If not, I'll tell you. It's Procter & Gamble Co. (PG), which raised its dividend from 44 cents a share to $0.482 per share, a 9.5% increase. And this was during our current recession. The company has been paying a dividend for 120 consecutive years since its incorporation in 1890 and has increased its dividend for 54 consecutive years at an annual compound average rate of approximately 9.5%. Currently, the stock provides a yield of 3.2%, and trades at 13.8 times forward earnings.

Another company, which provided its shareholders with a huge dividend increase, is Walgreen Co. (WAG), the drug store chain. They just boosted the payout from $0.138 per share to $0.175 per share each quarter, an enormous increase of 28.6%. But what is even better is the history behind the company's dividends, providing its shareholders with dividend bump-ups for 35 years straight; and as long a people continue to need medicine and prescriptions, the company should continue to raise dividends. The stock now yields 2.5% and has a forward PE ratio of 11.5.

Of the stocks that have been raising dividends 30 years or more, seven of them have yields above 3%, and 17 have yields above 2%. For a free list of dividend increasing stocks, which can be downloaded, sorted, and changed, visit WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Author does not own any of the above.

By Stockerblog.com