Wireless Charging: The Stocks in this Latest Hot Industry

Imagine that you have just landed from a flight and your cell phone is dead due to a used up battery charge. You walk through the airport and as you are strolling along, your phone is picking up radio frequencies that is charging your phone’s battery.

Or say you are walking down the street, the battery is dead in your cell phone, so you head into a coffee shop. A tiny chip in your phone picks up radio frequencies and converts them into energy to charge up your phone.

Think this is science fiction? Companies are already working on this technology now.

As an example, Energous Corp (WATT), a San Jose, California based company founded in 2012, has been working on just such a system. The company is developing WattUp, which allows for the wire-free distance charging of devices, including laptops, cellphones, and smart watches.

The stock took a dump yesterday, dropping 5% to 14.74 per share, probably due to the fact that it was just announced yesterday that the Senior Vice President of Product Marketing sold 1615 shares on June 14. However, if you look closer, you would find that, first, this was an automatic sale, and second, he still has over 100,000 shares of the stock. So the sale represented only a small part of his position.

According to a report in the Weekly Register, 27 institutions have increased positions in the stock, with 21 new positions. The stock has a market cap of $303 million.

Investors should be aware that the company is generating significant negative earnings, and should therefore be considered very speculative.

Other wireless electricity stocks can be found by looking at the publicly traded members of the Wireless Power Consortium, of which over 200 businesses have joined. They utilize Qi wireless charging as an open standard.

Of course, you will find many of the large corporations, such as Apple (AAPL), AVID (AVID), Texas Instruments (TXN), and Verizon Wireless (VZ), are members.

Leggett & Platt (LEG), which is a producer of engineered products, has a division for developing wireless power transmitters for integration.

ON Semiconductor (ON) is also working on wireless power technology. This semiconductor company is baed in Phoenix, Arizona.

Semtech Corporation (SMTC) a Camarillo, California which makes and sells analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, is also developing wireless power technology products.

Altogether, there are about 20 publicly traded stocks that are part of the Consortium. Maybe one of these companies can charge up your portfolio.

Disclosure: Author owns WATT. 

Please note: some of these stocks are very low cap and should be considered very speculative.

Dividend Raisers

With the way the market has been acting you would think that companies in general are doing terrible. Yet look at all the recent dividend increases. The following stocks have boosted their dividends in the last couple weeks.

Associated Banc-Corp (ASBC)

Xerox (XRX)

Teck Resources Limited (TCK)

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (TMO)

Aaron’s (AAN)

Atmos Energy (ATO)

Leggett & Platt (LEG)

Kimco Realty (KIM)

Boston Properties (BXP)

Cogent Communications (CCOI)

DeVry (DV)

Emerson Electric (EMR)

DeVry (DV)

If you like stock lists like this, check out the free lists of various industries of stocks, including chocolate stocks, coffee stocks, beer stocks, ex-dividend stocks, and many more, go to 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 March 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.

Ameren Corp (AEE) market cap: $7.7B ex-div date: 3/12/2012 yield: 4.9%

Public Storage (PSA) market cap: $23.2B ex-div date: 3/12/2012 yield: 3.2%

BCE Inc. (BCE) market cap: $31.2B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 5.4%

BRE Properties, Inc. (BRE) market cap: $3.7B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 3.1%

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) market cap: $7.5B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 4.1%

EnCana Corporation (ECA) market cap: $14.6B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 4.0%

Extra Space Storage, Inc. (EXR) market cap: $2.5B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 3.0%

Garmin Ltd. (GRMN) market cap: $9.3B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 3.3%

Leggett & Platt, Inc. (LEG) market cap: $3.2B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 4.9%

Mercury General Corporation (MCY) market cap: $2.4B ex-div date: 3/13/2012 yield: 5.6%

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 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

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Third Week of September

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.

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.

H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (HRUFF) market cap: $2.8B ex div date: 9/12/2011 yield: 4.7%

Public Storage (PSA) market cap: $19.4B ex div date: 9/12/2011 yield: 3.3%

GATX Corporation (GMT) market cap: $1.4B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 3.8%

Garmin Ltd. (GRMN) market cap: $6.0B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 5.2%

H&R Block, Inc. (HRB) market cap: $4.1B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 4.5%

Leggett & Platt, Inc. (LEG) market cap: $2.7B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 5.8%

Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) market cap: $96.3B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 4.9%

Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) market cap: $16.0B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 3.9%

Shaw Communications Inc. (SJR) market cap: $8.8B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 4.3%

Huntsman Corporation (HUN) market cap: $2.8B ex div date: 9/13/2011 yield: 3.4%

Mercury General Corporation (MCY) market cap: $2.0B ex div date: 9/14/2011 yield: 6.6%

DTE Energy Company (DTE) market cap: $8.0B ex div date: 9/15/2011 yield: 5.0%

Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (DPS) market cap: $7.8B ex div date: 9/15/2011 yield: 3.6%

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 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.

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