Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Third Week of June

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.

Community Bank	CBU	6/13/2016	3.1%
Corporate Executive Board	CEB	6/13/2016	2.6%
C&F Financial Corp	CFFI	6/13/2016	2.9%
Community Trust Bancorp	CTBI	6/13/2016	3.5%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	6/13/2016	3.2%
FBL Financial Group	FFG	6/13/2016	2.7%
Frontier Communications	FTR	6/13/2016	8.1%
GATX Corp	GMT	6/13/2016	3.5%
Hercules Technology Growth Capital	HTGY	6/13/2016	6.9%
Huntsman Corp	HUN	6/13/2016	3.3%
Communications Systems	JCS	6/13/2016	9.3%

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.

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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

Top Yielding S&P 500 Stocks (over 6%)

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is the primary benchmark for comparison to portfolios. Over 370 of those five hundred stocks pay dividends. The following is a list of the top six, all of which yield over 6%. Please note, in the interest of full disclosure, that I own two out of the six (the top two).

Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) 8.69% PE ratio: 20

Windstream Corporation (WIN) 8.15% PE ratio: 18

CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL) 7.29% PE ratio: 14

Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI) 6.62% PE ratio: 13

Altria Group, Inc. (MO)6.19% PE ratio: 15

Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI) 6.09% PE ratio: 14

If you like high yield stocks, check out the free lists of high yield electric and gas utilities at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author owned FTR and WIN at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

The 7 Worst Stocks

There are several stocks in the S&P 500 that may be worth avoiding due to the fact that they are generating negative earnings, have negative operating cash flow, and a high debt to capital ratio.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ( AMD) Negative earnings of $5.10 per share. Negative operating cash flow. Debt to Capital Ratio: 98%

SLM Corporation ( SLM) Negative earnings of $0.69 per share. Operating cash flow of negative $5.7 billion. Debt to Capital Ratio: 97%

MBIA Inc. ( MBI) Negative earnings of $12.29 per share. Negative operating cash flow. Debt to Capital Ratio: 94%

Verisign, Inc. ( VRSN) Negative earnings of $1.87 per share. Negative profit margin. Debt to Capital Ratio: 93%

Frontier Communications Corp ( FTR) $4.7 billion in debt, only $173 million in cash. Quarterly earnings drop of 41.9%.
Debt to Capital Ratio: 90%

CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. ( CBG) Negative earnings of $4.81 per share. Negative operating cash flow. Debt to Capital Ratio: 89%

CIT Group Inc. ( CIT) Negative earnings of $11.06 per share. Negative profit margin of 169%. Debt to Capital Ratio: 89%

If you want to see some stocks at the other end of the spectrum, check out the downloadable Excel databases of Below Book High Yield Stocks, Debt Free Stocks Selling At Or Near Cash, and No Debt Low Price To Cash Flow Stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

By Stockerblog.com