Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fifth Week of December

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.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG) market cap: $3.3B ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 4.5%

AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (AVB) market cap: $11.2B ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 3.0%

BancFirst Corporation (BANF) market cap: $500.2M ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 3.3%

Boardwalk REIT (BOWFF) market cap: $2.3B ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 3.6%

General Growth Properties, Inc (GGP) market cap: $12.2B ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 3.1%

Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) market cap: $20.6B ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 3.4%

National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) market cap: $488.4M ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 3.4%

TransCanada Corporation (TRP) market cap: $27.3B ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 4.1%

B&G Foods, Inc. (BGS) market cap: $983.6M ex div date: 12/28/2011 yield: 4.5%

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (APD) market cap: $16.2B ex div date: 12/29/2011 yield: 3.0%

Raytheon Company (RTN) market cap: $14.9B ex div date: 12/30/2011 yield: 4.0%

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

High Yield American Stock Exchange Stocks

Whatever happened to the American Stock Exchange? The exchange started in the 1800's with a group of traders standing outside the New York Stock & Exchange Board, "on the curb," trading speculative stocks. New York Curb Market Agency was created in 1906 and was later known as the New York Curb Market in 1911. The name was changed to the New York Curb Exchange in 1929. The name was changed to the American Stock Exchange in 1953. In 2008, the American Stock Exchange merged with the NYSE Euronext (NYX).

The American Stock Exchange, also referred to as the AMEX, has many stocks which are considered to be more speculative with lower market caps than NYSE stocks, and also trades many closed end funds. Many of these companies provide high dividends according to the free list of high yield American Stock Exchange stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

British American Tobacco plc (BTI) is one of the largest companies that trades on the AMEX, with a market cap of $91.6 billion and sports a yield of 2.8%. This marketer of cigars, cigarettes, and pipe tobacco products with brands that include Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Viceroy, Kool, and Benson & Hedges, trades at 12.8 times forward earnings. Earnings for the latest quarter were up 22.60% year-over-year on a 1.9% increase in revenues.

National HealthCare Corporation (NHC) is another AMEX traded stock that pays a decent dividend. sporting a yield of 3.6%. The company manages long-term health care centers, assisted living centers, and independent living centers. The stock trades at 15 times forward earnings.

Some of the high yield closed end funds that trade on AMEX include Eaton Vance Municipal Bond Fund (EIM) yielding 7.9%, Invesco Van Kampen Advantage Municipal Income Trust II (VKI) yielding 7.7%, and Reaves Utility Income Fund (UTG) paying 6.3%.

To access a free list of the other high yield AMEX stocks, which can be downloaded, updated, and sorted, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

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

By Stockerblog.com

High Yield American Stock Exchange Stocks

The American Stock Exchange, also known as the AMEX, was founded in 1842 as the New York Curb Exchange. It got that name since stock traders and brokers used to stand out on the street by the curb and trade stocks back in the early 1800's. On October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext (NYX) took over the American Stock Exchange. The AMEX is now known as NYSE Amex Equities.

Although the AMEX is now a division of the NYSE, over 500 stocks are still traded on the exchange, and according to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, there are over 20 AmEx stocks with yields above 2.5%. Many of these stocks are closed end funds, real estate investment trusts also known as REITs, and oil and natural gas income partnerships. But there are a few gems that are regular corporations.

British American Tobacco (BTI), which produces Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Viceroy, Kool, and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, generates a yield of 2.8%. The stock has forward price to earnings ratio of 12.6.

National Healthcare Corp. (NHC) operates health care centers, assisted living centers, and retirement centers. The yield is 2.7% and the forward PE is 15.3.

Park National Corp. (PRK), a bank holding company, has paid quarterly dividends since December 1996 and has raised their dividend every year. The stock yields 5.5%. The company which has a market cap of almost $1 billion, has a forward PE of 13.7.

For a free Excel list of high yielding American Stock Exchange stocks, over ten of which yield more than 7%, go to wsnn.com. The list can be downloaded, sorted, updated, and added to.

Author owns NYX.

By Stockerblog.com

Top Yielding American Stock Exchange Stocks

The American Stock Exchange, also known as the AMEX, was founded in 1842 as the New York Curb Exchange. It got that name since stock traders and brokers used to stand on the curb and trade stocks back in the early 1800's. On October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext (NYX) took over the American Stock Exchange. The AMEX is now known as NYSE Amex Equities.

Although the AMEX is now a division of the NYSE, over 500 stocks are still traded on the exchange, and according to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, there are over 25 AmEx stocks with yields above 2.5%. Many of these stocks are closed end funds, real estate investment trusts also known as REITs, and oil and natural gas income partnerships. But there are a few gems that are regular corporations.

British American Tobacco (BTI), which produces Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Viceroy, Kool, and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, generates a yield of 6.8%. The stock has forward price to earnings ratio of 12.

National Healthcare Corp. (NHC) operates health care centers, assisted living centers, and retirement centers. The yield is 3.2% and the forward PE is 13.9.

Park National Corp. (PRK), a bank holding company, has paid quarterly dividends since December 1996 and has raised their dividend every year. The stock yields 5.7%. The company which has a market cap of almost $1 billion, has a forward PE of 12.3.

For a free list of high yielding American Stock Exchange stocks, over ten of which yield more than 7%, go to wsnn.com. The list can be downloaded, sorted, changed, and added to.

Author owns NYX.

By Stockerblog.com