Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fourth Week of June

  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, 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, many 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.

The Toro Company (TTC) 6/24/2013 1.2%

Cypress Semiconductor (CY) 6/25/2013 4.0%

Getty Realty Corp (GTY) 6/25/2013 3.7%

Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (HTA) 6/25/2013 4.9%

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) 6/25/2013 1.7%

ProAssurance Corporation (PRA) 6/25/2013 2.0%

Chad Therapeutics Inc. (CTU) 6/26/2013 6.8%

Centex Corp. (CTX) 6/26/2013 6.5%

Curtiss-Wright Corp (CW) 6/26/2013 1.1%

Dillard's (DDS) 6/26/2013 0.2%

Danaher Corp (DHR) 6/26/2013 0.2%

Dow Chemical (DOW) 6/26/2013 3.7%

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

How to Invest Like Al Gore and Become Richer than Romney

By now, you have probably seen several news sources report how former Vice President of the United States Al Gore, has sold his television network, Current TV, to Al Jazeera recently for $500 million. His share is reportedly one fifth of that, $100 million. Several years ago, he started an investment company called Generation Investment Management with David Blood, a former executive with Goldman Sachs. Gore's wealth has grown from about $2 million twelve years ago to $300 million now, according to Forbes Magazine, which works out to an average annual return of about 57%. (The return was so high that the Excel RATE function couldn't come up with an answer so I had to manually calculate in in Excel.)

Have you heard of these stocks: Danaher (DHR), Henry Schein (HSIC), or Waters (WAT)? If not, maybe you should find out more about them. They are the three largest holdings of Al Gore's investment company according to the free list of Al Gore stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Danaher Corporation, based in Washington DC, is a producer and and marketer of professional, medical, industrial, and other products for the environmental, testing, life sciences, dental, and equipment manufacturing industries. The stock trades at 18 times trailing earnings and 17 times forward earnings. The earnings for the latest reported quarter were up 4.8% on essentially flat revenues. The company pays a small dividend of 0.2%.

Henry Schein, Inc. is a Melville, New York distributor of healthcare products and services, such as dental products, branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and surgical products. The stock has a trailing price to earnings ratio of 20 and a forward PE of 17. Quarterly revenues were up 5.7% with earnings up 5.2%. The stock does not pay a dividend.

Waters Corporation is a Milford, Massachusetts manufacturer of high performance liquid chromatography, ultra performance liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry technology systems. Earnings for the latest quarter were down 2.1% on a 1% drop in sales.

For a list of all the top Al Gore stocks, which includes over half a dozen which pay dividends, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

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

By Stockerblog.com