Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of July

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ 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, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the quarterly dividend amount, and annual yield.

J P Morgan Chase & Co (JPM) 7/3/2017 0.5 2.22%
American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) 7/5/2017 0.125 4.31%
American Express Company (AXP) 7/5/2017 0.32 1.51%
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS) 7/5/2017 0.15 8.00%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) 7/5/2017 0.39 2.71%
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) 7/5/2017 0.29 3.32%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found here at wstnn.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 WStNN.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.

 

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fifth Week of June

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ 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, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the quarterly dividend amount, and annual yield.

Cypress Semiconductor (CY) 6/27/2017 0.11 3.32%
Agrium Inc. (AGU) 6/28/2017 0.875 3.80%
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) 6/28/2017 0.412 0.97%
Deere & Company (DE) 6/28/2017 0.6 1.92%
Dow Chemical Company (DOW) 6/28/2017 0.46 2.89%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found here at wstnn.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 WStNN.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.

Wireless Charging: The Stocks in this Latest Hot Industry

Imagine that you have just landed from a flight and your cell phone is dead due to a used up battery charge. You walk through the airport and as you are strolling along, your phone is picking up radio frequencies that is charging your phone’s battery.

Or say you are walking down the street, the battery is dead in your cell phone, so you head into a coffee shop. A tiny chip in your phone picks up radio frequencies and converts them into energy to charge up your phone.

Think this is science fiction? Companies are already working on this technology now.

As an example, Energous Corp (WATT), a San Jose, California based company founded in 2012, has been working on just such a system. The company is developing WattUp, which allows for the wire-free distance charging of devices, including laptops, cellphones, and smart watches.

The stock took a dump today, dropping 5% to 14.74 per share, probably due to the fact that it was just announced yesterday that the Senior Vice President of Product Marketing sold 1615 shares on June 14. However, if you look closer, you would find that, first, this was an automatic sale, and second, he still has over 100,000 shares of the stock. So the sale represented only a small part of his position.

According to a report in the Weekly Register, 27 institutions have increased positions in the stock, with 21 new positions. The stock has a market cap of $303 million.

Investors should be aware that the company is generating significant negative earnings, and should therefore be considered very speculative.

Other wireless electricity stocks can be found by looking at the publicly traded members of the Wireless Power Consortium, of which over 200 businesses have joined. They utilize Qi wireless charging as an open standard.

Of course, you will find many of the large corporations, such as Apple (AAPL), AVID (AVID), Texas Instruments (TXN), and Verizon Wireless (VZ), are members.

Leggett & Platt (LEG), which is a producer of engineered products, has a division for developing wireless power transmitters for integration.

ON Semiconductor (ON) is also working on wireless power technology. This semiconductor company is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Semtech Corporation (SMTC) a Camarillo, California which makes and sells analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, is also developing wireless power technology products.

Altogether, there are about 20 publicly traded stocks that are part of the Consortium. Maybe one of these companies can charge up your portfolio.

Disclosure: Author owns WATT. 

Please note: some of these stocks are very low cap and should be considered very speculative.

The Latest Hot Industries According to Stock Filings

If you have ever wondered what the interest is of companies in the hottest industries, such as drones or robots, there is a way to find this information out.The Securities and Exchange Commission maintains a database of all the forms filed by publicly traded companies for the past several years.

Here are the results for the number of forms that were filed with the SEC during the last four years that mentioned any of the following terms connected to recent popular industries.

bitcoin 1588
drones 2334
robots 8000+
robotics 8000+
artificial intelligence 1977
CRISPR 791
marijuana 5800
cannabis 8000+
3D printing 1820
virtual reality 1154
augmented reality 1216

By the way, 8000+ means over 8,000. So it could be 9,000 or 90,000.

How to Get an Amazon Dash Wand for Free

The Dash Wand is the latest tech product from Amazon. If you haven’t heard about it, here are the details.

Dash Wand

  • The Amazon Dash Wand with Alexa helps you find recipes, convert cups to ounces, buy and reorder essentials, find nearby restaurants and more.
  • Purchase Dash Wand for $20 and get $20 off your next purchase after you register the device. *
  • Try AmazonFresh free for 90 days (normally $14.99 per month) **
  • Say it or scan a barcode. It’s added to your shopping cart. Just say “paper towels.”
  • Water-resistant, durable design, and magnetic so you can stick it on your fridge.

Here are the details about how to get it free:

Essentially free with a $20 Amazon credit when you register the device. Once you register Dash Wand, the $20 credit will appear in your shopping cart the next time you check out with an eligible item.

This deal may not last long. If you are interested, you can see more details at the link below.

Dash Wand

 

Old King Coal: Will Coal Stocks Go Up Because of the US Backing Out of the Paris Accord?

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration of the U. S. Department of Energy, 30% of the electricity generated in the United States comes from coal.

This is a significant source of fuel for generators, primarily due to its low energy production costs compared to natural gas and petroleum.

Some investors believe that the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the energy policies of the current administration should help coal stocks. If that happens, there are several American coal companies that could benefit.

Arch Coal (ARCH), which is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, was founded in 1969. The stock trades at 15.6 times forward earnings and pays a small yield of 0.5%. It has a favorable price sales ratio of 0.8. Revenues for the latest quarter jumped 45% year-over-year. Earnings per share went from a negative $9.71 to a positive $2.03 over the same period.

Cloud Peak Energy (CLD) is a low priced and low market cap stock, which is based in Gillette, Wyoming. The price to earnings ratio is a reasonable 5.4 and the price to sales ratio is an auspicious 0.3. The company does not pay a dividend.

Westmoreland Coal (WLB) has an even smaller market capitalization of $100 million. The company is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is not currently generating positive earnings, nor does it pay a dividend.

Maybe coal can heat up your portfolio, but be careful, as many believe that the coal industry is a dying industry.

 

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fourth Week of June

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ 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, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the quarterly dividend amount, and annual yield.

Apollo Investment Corporation (AINV) 6/19/2017 0.15 10.14%
KAR Auction Services, Inc (KAR) 6/19/2017 0.32 2.77%
Seagate Technology PLC (STX) 6/19/2017 0.63 6.00%
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) 6/20/2017 0.73 4.46%
Portland General Electric Company (POR) 6/22/2017 0.34 2.71%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found here at wstnn.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 WStNN.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.

Is There Money in Hippie Collectibles?

Summer of Love

The De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is featuring the Summer of Love Exhibit, as it is the 50 year anniversary of the 1967 hippie revolution in San Francisco.

posters
Rock Music Posters
Zig Zag Poster
Zig Zag Poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The exhibit included a huge number of posters, music, record albums, buttons, books, and other artifacts. Several anti-war posters were on display.

Anti War Poster
Anti War Poster

There were dozens of mannequins dressed in 1960’s garb, including maxis, midis, minis, and hot pants.

Hot Pants
Hot Pants

You can even see Jerry Garcia’s top hat and Janis Joplin’s purse.

Jerry Garcia Top Hat
Jerry Garcia Top Hat

The The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll runs until August 20, 2017. If you happen to be in the San Francisco Bay Area during the next week, you should check it out. Don’t miss the blacklights flashing on blacklight posters.

Blacklight on Poster
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Blacklight on Poster

So what does all this have to do with money and finance? There is a growing demand for counterculture collectibles.

As an example, original vintage Grateful Dead posters are going for $400 to $750 on eBay.

Ken Kesey was one of the most famous counterculture novelists, who authored One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion. First editions are selling for $125 to $500.

As a matter of fact, Heritage Auctions is auctioning off various hippie and 1960’s music related collectibles on June 18. For example, they are selling a page of handwritten lyrics by Janis Joplin. It has a starting bid of $5,000.

A sealed Beatles Revolver record album from 1966 has a starting bid of $750. A Woodstock Festival poster will have the bidding start at $1,000.

Of course, if you were around back then and you have a few posters from that era, you could probably probably sell them for a pretty penny.

Dirty Words in SEC Stock Filings

When I have free time on my hands and have nothing better to do, I look for dirty words on Securities and Exchange filings. Just kidding!

Surprisingly, several stocks have filed forms with the SEC that has the “S” word and the “F” word hidden away. And these aren’t just obscure companies. Some of these are famous names.

Sometimes the word is a typo, sometimes it is quoting from a conversation, and some times the company really means to say it.

The “S” Word

One example is Shopify (SHOP). On its Exhibit 1.1 for the Form 40-F [2016 Annual InformationForm], the “S” word is shown in the Culture & Employees section.

Shopify

LendingClub (LC) has what appears to be a typo for an occupation on its Form 424B3.

LendingClub

The “F” Word

Time Warner Cable (TWX) had an interesting quote in its Form 425 filing.

Time Warner Cable

These are just a few examples from the large companies. There are a few other filings with interesting words from companies that are not as well known.

Shit, I realized I got through writing this whole article without using one dirty four letter word.

I Created a Stock Motif Yesterday Called Stock Market Crash

Yesterday, June 9, 2017, I created a motif called Stock Market Crash. A motif is a collection of stocks and/or ETFs which you or other people create. It is almost like creating your own exchange traded fund.

I just felt like the market had topped, so I thought this would be a great motif worth creating on Thursday. It turned out to be a good move since it is up today even though the NASDAQ is down 143 points today.

It contains several bearish ETFs in the portfolio which holds such securities as the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares New ETF which was up 12.7% today.

Motifs are great because you can invest for as little as $250. For more info on the Stock Market Crash Motif, go here.