Stocks that Al Gore Has Been Buying

In case you weren't aware, Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President, set up an investment management company several years ago with David Blood, former Co-Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The company is called Generation Investment Management, and it specializes in investing on companies involved in sustainability, social responsibility, and environmental responsibility.

Gore's company made a few purchases in the first quarter of the year. One was SYSCO (SYY), the food service industry company. The stock trades at 21 times trailing earnings and 18 times forward earnings. It pays a generous yield of 3.1%.

Laboratory Corporation of America (LH) is another Gore company. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 16 and a forward P/E of 13. It does not pay a dividend.

Teradata (TDC) is a data warehousing solutions company. The stock trades at 26 times trailing earnings and 17 times forward earnings. This one also doesn't pay a dividend.

HDFC Bank (HDB) based in India, has a trailing P/E of 139 and a forward P/E of 25. The company pays a small dividend yield of 0.8%.

If you like interesting stock lists like this, check out the free stock databases at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

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

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of January 2013: A Great Way to Start the New Year

  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.

Brandywine Realty Trust BDN 1/2/2013 5.0% $1.7B

Bristol Myers Squibb Co. BMY 1/2/2013 4.3% $53.6B

Mack Cali Realty Corp CLI 1/2/2013 6.9% $2.3B

Enerplus Corp ERF 1/2/2013 8.5% $2.5B

Itau Unibanco Holding SA ADR ITUB 1/2/2013 4.6% $36.3B

SYSCO Corporation SYY 1/2/2013 3.5% $18.8B

Toronto-Dominion Bank TD 1/2/2013 3.7% $77.6B

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

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of April 2012

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.

Kimco Realty Corp (KIM) ex-div date: 4/2/2012 yield: 4.0% market cap: $7.8B

MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA) ex-div date: 4/2/2012 yield: 12.9% market cap: $2.7B

Raytheon Company (RTN) ex-div date: 4/2/2012 yield: 3.8% market cap: $17.7B

Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) ex-div date: 4/2/2012 yield: 3.4% market cap: $76.8B

First Interstate Bancsystem Inc (FIBK) ex-div date: 4/2/2012 yield: 3.2% market cap: $642.7M

Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) ex-div date: 4/3/2012 yield: 4.1% market cap: $55.6B

SYSCO Corporation (SYY) ex-div date: 4/3/2012 yield: 3.6% market cap: $17.4B

Campbell Soup Company (CPB) ex-div date: 4/4/2012 yield: 3.5% market cap: $10.4B

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) ex-div date: 4/5/2012 yield: 3.4% market cap: $6.5B

General Mills, Inc. (GIS) ex-div date: 4/5/2012 yield: 3.1% market cap: $25.1B

Pearson PLC ADR (PSO) ex-div date: 4/5/2012 yield: 3.5% market cap: $15.8B

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) ex-div date: 4/5/2012 yield: 5.1% market cap: $111.8B

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