Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Third Week of July

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. 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.
Comtech Telecomm. Corp. (CMTL) market cap: $721.8M ex div date: 7/19/2011 yield:
3.6% Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) market cap: $430.3M ex div date:
7/19/2011 yield: 8.4% Putnam Master Int. Income (PIM) market cap: $377.3M ex div
date: 7/20/2011 yield: 6.1% Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (AOD) market cap:
$1.3B ex div date: 7/20/2011 yield: 11.1% Royal Bank of Canada (RY) market cap:
$81.0B ex div date: 7/22/2011 yield: 4.0% Abbott Laboratories (ABT) market cap:
$81.1B ex div date: 7/13/2011 yield: 3.7% Shaw Communications Inc. (SJR) market
cap: $9.2B ex div date: 7/13/2011 yield: 4.3% Consolidated Communications
Holdings Inc (CNSL) market cap: $580.9M ex div date: 7/13/2011 yield: 8.0%
Gabelli Global Gold, Natural Res &Income (GGN) market cap: $1.0B ex div date:
7/13/2011 yield: 9.7% H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (HRUFF) market cap: $2.8B
ex div date: 7/13/2011 yield: 4.6% 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. 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