32 Stocks Going Ex-Dividend Mid August

Many traders use a technique called dividend buying, which is the buying of stocks before they go ex-dividend and selling shortly after the ex-dividend date at roughly the same price, but receiving the dividend. This technique generally works only during a bull market. You may also want to check out the definitions of the various dividend dates.

There are over 30 stocks going ex-dividend in mid August. The following stocks all have market caps over $500 million, and yields over 1%. Several stocks have yields over 4%.

• Wyeth (WYE) 8/11/2008 Market cap: $63.4B; Yield: 2.36%
• Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) 8/12/2008 Market cap: $25.1B; Yield: 1.29%
• Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $1.1B; Yield: 2.35%
• CIT Group Inc. (CIT) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $2.3B; Yield: 4.72%
• Corus Entertainment Inc. (CJR) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $1.3B; Yield: 3.64%
• Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $21.7B; Yield: 5.12%
• Ferro Corporation (FOE) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $938.9M; Yield: 2.70%
• The Kroger Co. (KR) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $19.1B; Yield: 1.23%
• Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $55.0B; Yield: 3.89%
• Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $6.7B; Yield: 4.31%
• Shaw Communications Inc. (SJR) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $9.3B; Yield: 3.33%
• Sonoco Products Company (SON) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $3.1B; Yield: 3.47%
• Southwest Gas Corporation (SWX) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $1.2B; Yield: 3.19%
• United Technologies Corporation (UTX) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $62.2B; Yield: 1.98%
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $226.4B; Yield: 1.65%
• Spectra Energy Corp. (SE) 8/13/2008 Market cap: $16.0B; Yield: 3.53%
• Fastenal Company (FAST) 8/14/2008 Market cap: $7.4B; Yield: 1.01%
• International Paper Company (IP) 8/14/2008 Market cap: $9.9B; Yield: 4.30%
• L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (LLL) 8/14/2008 Market cap: $10.9B; Yield: 1.35%
• PACCAR Inc (PCAR) 8/14/2008 Market cap: $16.1B; Yield: 1.64%
• Ryder System, Inc. (R) 8/14/2008 Market cap: $4.1B; Yield: 1.30%
• STMicroelectronics N.V. (STM) 8/18/2008 Market cap: $10.2B; Yield: 3.17%
• Target Corporation (TGT) 8/18/2008 Market cap: $36.7B; Yield: 1.18%
• Walgreen Company (WAG) 8/18/2008 Market cap: $32.9B; Yield: 1.11%
• Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 8/19/2008 Market cap: $241.1B; Yield: 1.60%
• Thomson Reuters PLC (TRIN) 8/19/2008 Market cap: $21.9B; Yield: 2.78%
• Thomson Reuters Corporation (TRI) 8/19/2008 Market cap: $25.1B; Yield: 4.16%
• BT Group plc (BT) 8/20/2008 Market cap: $30.3B; Yield: 5.32%
• Carnival Corporation (CCL) 8/20/2008 Market cap: $28.4B Yield: 4.26%
• Carnival plc (CUK) 8/20/2008 Market cap: $29.4B; Yield: 4.56%
• Liz Claiborne, Inc. (LIZ) 8/20/2008 Market cap: $1.2B; Yield: 1.76%
• Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) 8/20/2008 Market cap: $6.4B; Yield: 2.60%

 Disclosure: The author owns MSFT.