Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of August

  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.

Olin Corporation	OLN	8/8/2012	3.7%	$1.7B
Pitney Bowes Inc.	PBI	8/8/2012	11.1%	$2.7B
R.R. Donnelley & Sons	RRD	8/8/2012	8.3%	$2.3B
Spectra Energy Corp.	SE	8/8/2012	3.7%	$19.8B

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

Top High Yield Low Price No Debt Below Book Stocks

It is one thing to find a high yield low price stock, but there are more characteristics that you have to look at. Does the stock only pay a dividend once a year or quarterly? Is it selling way above book value or below book? Does the company have a ton of debt?

To make it easy for investors do do their research, WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has just updated its High Yield Stocks Below $10 per Share list, It has been narrowed down to only show the stocks with yields greater than 4%, selling below book value, and with little or no debt. In addition, all the stocks pay quarterly.

An example is Lawson Products Inc. (LAWS), a Chicago, Illinois based company which distributes maintenance and repair related products and services. The customers include numerous industries, such as automotive repair, commercial vehicle maintenance, government, manufacturing, food processing, distribution, construction, oil and gas, and mining. The stock trades at 6.7 times forward earnings and pays a very generous yield of 5.1%. The company has a small amount of debt relative to its capital and sells at 62% of book value.

Friedman Industries (FRD) is involved in steel processing, pipe manufacturing and processing, and steel and pipe distribution. The stock pay a dividend rate of 5.6% and sports a forward price to earnings ratio of 5.3. This debt free company sells right at book value.

The Dallas, Texas based A. H. Belo Corporation (AHC) is a newspaper publishing company, which owns and operates four metropolitan daily newspapers: The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise, and The Denton Record-Chronicle. The company last reported negative earnings but pays a 5.8% yield. The company is debt free and trades at 77% of book value.

The see the entire list of 30 high yield low priced stocks that have low or no debt and trade at less than book value, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

I Just Bought a 13% Guaranteed $5000 bond that Pays $120 per month Tax Free

Can you believe that I just bought a 13% guaranteed $5000 bond that pays $120 per month tax free for 5 years? And it's guaranteed by a major US bank.

Here is what it is. About a year ago, I got a 'special deal' on a credit card, interest free for one year on purchases and balance transfers. I took advantage of it.

The year is up, and now a 13% interest rate kicks in. So by paying off the credit card, I am saving about $120 a month for approximately five years, in essence generating a 13% return (as the alternative is not paying it off and paying the high interest). And of course, there is no taxation on the $120 per month savings. Such a deal.

This is obviously a very simple 'investment' or money management technique. Just wanted to reinforce the benefits of credit card payoffs, especially to those who are getting credit cards for the first time.

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