Would You Pay to Buy Tap Water on the Streets of New York?

Here's an innovative start-up business idea. Sell tap water on the streets of New York City. Of course the company providing this innovative product, the Molecule Project, dispenses the water through a very high quality filtering machine. Will this company give the water utilities a run for their money? Probably not, as these utilities have been doing very well, with many increasing their dividends over the last few months.

According to the free list of high yield water utility stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, American States Water (AWR), which was founded in 1929, distributes water in 75 communities in California. It trades at 17.7 times forward earnings and pays a decent yield of 3.2%. In August, the company boosted its dividends by an incredible 26.7%. Earnings for the latest quarter were down 5.5%, but revenues were up 4.1%.

Aqua America (WTR) distributes water to customers in Pennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Indiana, Virginia, Maine, and Georgia. The stock has a forward price to earnings ratio of 20.9, and yields 2.7%. The company has raised its dividends every year since 1988 and has numerous stock splits during that time. Earnings for the latest quarter were up over 10% on an 11% increase in revenues.

Connecticut Water Service (CTWS) trades at 24 times earnings and yields 3.1%. Earnings were up a substantial 20% on a significant 23% boost in revenues. The company, which was founded in 1956, serves customers in 55 towns in Connecticut. The company recently raised its dividend by 2% in August.

For a free list of high yield water utility stocks, 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 October

  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.

Saul Centers Inc (BFS) 10/15/2012 3.1% $898.9M

Western Asset Managed Municipals Fnd Inc (MMU) 10/17/2012 5.1% $648.8M

Vale SA ADR (VALE) 10/17/2012 6.2% $59.3B

Reaves Utility Income Fund (UTG) 10/17/2012 6.3% $584.4M

Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) 10/17/2012 6.1% $921.5M

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.

Buying Dividends (Dividend Capture) book 25% Off
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

Building a 30 Story Hotel in 15 Days in China

Amazing video about how a 30 story hotel was built in only 15 days in Hunan Provance, China. The building is five times more earthquake resistant than other buildings and five times more energy efficient, four-pane windows, external solar shading, internal window insullation, three stage air filtration, with the air twenty times cleaner than outdoor air, and more. By the way, the 15 days include interiors of the rooms.

How Do I Qualify?

If you type How Do I Qualify into the Google (GOOG) search engine, this is what you would get: