36 Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in Early March

If you want to try the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' which is the technique 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, there are 36 stocks to choose from during the first week of March. This technique generally works only in bull markets.

When you buy dividends, there are many stocks in many different sectors to choose from. 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.

• Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY) Ex-dividend date: 3/2/09 Yield: 7.2%
• Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL) Ex-dividend date: 3/2/09 Yield: 2.6%
• Suncor Energy Inc. (SU) Ex-dividend date: 3/2/09 Yield: 0.8%
• WABCO Holdings Inc. (WBC) Ex-dividend date: 3/2/09 Yield: 2.2%
• Regal Entertainment Group (RGC) Ex-dividend date: 3/3/09 Yield: 7.1%
• AngloGold Ashanti Limited (AU) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 0.4%
• Bank of America Corporation (BAC) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 0.7%
• Brown-Forman Corporation (BF.B) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 2.6%
• C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (CHRW) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 2.0%
• The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (DNB) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 1.8%
• El Paso Corporation (EP) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 2.2%
• Fluor Corporation (FLR) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 1.2%
• Genuine Parts Company (GPC) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 4.8%
• Infinity Property and Casualty Corp. (IPCC) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 1.2%
• Knight Transportation (KNX) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 1.2%
• Manitowoc Company, Inc. (MTW) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 1.6%
• Omnicare, Inc. (OCR) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 0.3%
• Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 2.1%
• The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (PBG) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 3.0%
• Precision Castparts Corp. (PCP) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 0.2%
• PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 3.2%
• Praxair, Inc. (PX) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 2.4%
• Valley National Bancorp (VLY) Ex-dividend date: 3/4/09 Yield: 6.6%
• Frontier Communications Corp (FTR) Ex-dividend date: 3/5/09 Yield: 12.3%
• Hubbell Incorporated (HUB.B) Ex-dividend date: 3/5/09 Yield: 4.5%
• NIKE, Inc. (NKE) Ex-dividend date: 3/5/09 Yield: 2.3%
• Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK) Ex-dividend date: 3/5/09 Yield: 1.5%
• Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BDX) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 1.9%
• Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (CBSH) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 2.7%
• CME Group Inc. (CME) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 2.4%
• Canadian National Railway (CNI) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 2.1%
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 2.3%
• Pepco Holdings, Inc. (POM) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 6.1%
• Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 9.0%
• The Travelers Companies, Inc. (TRV) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 3.0%
• V.F. Corporation (VFC) Ex-dividend date: 3/6/09 Yield: 4.5%

If you like dividend stocks, you should check out the the high yield utility stocks and the Monthly Dividend Stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com. For more details on dividend definitions, check out definitions of dividend dates. Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author does not own any of the above at the time this article was written.

Comments

[Fabien Hug:]

Thanks for the info. Gambling for gambling, I prefer to start with a dividend (currently BP ex today and ouch!)

Feb 19 09:24 AM

[jasonjim:]

As usual in articles of this nature not all of the facts have been mentioned, which could cause an ill-informed reader to be led astray. More important than the ex-dividend date is the record date which usually follows the ex-dividend date by 2 or 3 days. If you don't own the shares on the record date you don't get the dividend, even if you bought them before the ex-dividend date. I thought that this point should have been mentioned in the article.

Feb 19 09:28 AM

[User 352293:]

Are there mutual funds that focus on dividend yield equities?

Feb 19 03:38 PM

[Marcap:]

Indeed! Unfortunately a dividend is something which far too many investors place too much weight on. They see a relatively high dividend, and then tend to ignore everything else, such as an extremely over-inflated balance sheet, the lack of cash and thus the need to take on more debt in order to actually be able to pay the dividend resulting of course in a reduction in share value, and not to mention the potential of dividend suspension at any time. In fact these days a dividend should only be looked at as an extra bonus to help in the decision making process to buy, and as you say, in no way used as the sole basis for purchasing a particular stock.

On Feb 19 06:34 AM ED K wrote:

> Although the dividend is one of many factors to be considered in
> the purchase of equities it should not be the sole determining factorThe
> method described above breaks this generally accepted investing rule.

Feb 21 11:15 AM

[Marcap:]

Yes there are. Just Google "dividend fund" and you will find several of them.

On Feb 19 03:38 PM User 352293 wrote:

> Are there mutual funds that focus on dividend yield equities?

Feb 21 11:49 AM