Corporate Finance Education

> How to Calculate Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)

> How to Calculate Debt to Equity Ratio

> How to Determine Liquidation Value Method

Dividend Education

> Four Signs of Dividend Safety

> How to Calculate Earnings per Share (EPS)

> What is and How to Interpret the Price to Earnings Ratio

> Three Reasons Why You Should Sell a Dividend Stock

> How to Invest in a Dividend ReInvestment Plan (DRIP)

> How to Calculate the Dividend Payout Ratio

> Review of Johnson & Johnson (Public, NYSE:JNJ) - Dividend Paying Aristocrat Stock

> The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats - the best Dividend Paying Stocks in the Market

> What is the Dividend Yield and how do you Calculate it?

> Why You Should Watch Out for Dividend Trap Stocks

> Why is the Ex Dividend Date so Important?

Dividend Research Picks

> Foreign Telecommunications Stocks

> 100 Highest Yielding Dividend Stocks

> Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) 30 Dividend Paying Stocks

> Dow Jones Transportation Stocks

> Dow Jones Utility Stocks

> Dividend Stocks with a 26 Week Price Change -5 to -50%

> Dividend Stocks with Average Daily Volume > 1 Million Shares

> Dividend Stocks with a Beta of 1 or Less

> Dividend Stocks with Insider Ownership greater than 10%

> Dividend Stocks with Debt to Equity Ratio of less than 35%

> Dividend Paying Stocks with Price to Book Ratio of 1 to 1000

> Dividend Stocks with Monthly Payouts

Latest Dividend News

> Procter & Gamble Declares Quarterly Dividend

(July 13th, 2010)

Cincinnati, OH - Board of Directors of The Procter & Gamble Company (Public, NYSE: PG) announced a quarterly dividend of $0.4818 per share on the Common Stock and on the Series A and Series B ESOP Convertible Class A Preferred Stock of the Company, payable on or after August 16, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 23, 2010. The stock is trading at 18.6 times 2010 earnings (price to earnings ratio) and has Earnings per Share of 3.36. The company has 2.88 billion shares trading on the New York Stock Exchange making it a large cap firm.

> Bank of America (Public, NYSE:BAC) Declares Preferred Dividends

(July 2nd, 2010)

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - Bank of America's (Public, NYSE:BAC) Board of Directors today announced they have authorized quarterly cash dividends on preferred stock to be paid on the following terms:

• A quarterly cash dividend of $0.38775 per depositary share on the 6.204 percent Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series D, is payable on September 14, 2010 to shareholders of record as of August 31, 2010.

> Shaw Communications Inc. (Public, NYSE: SJR) Declares Monthly Dividends

(June 30, 2010)

Calgary, Alberta - Shaw Communications Inc., one of Canada's largest Cable television, Internet & Digital Phone providers announced today that its Board of Directors have approved monthly dividends of $0.073333 on Shaw's Class B Non-Voting Participating Shares and $0.073125 on Shaw's Class A Participating Shares, payable on each of September 29, 2010, October 28, 2010 and November 29, 2010 to all holders of record at the close of business September 15, 2010, October 15, 2010 and November 15, 2010, respectively.

> Lockheed Martin Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.63 per Share

(June 27, 2010)

BETHESDA, Maryland - Lockheed Martin's (Public, NYSE:LMT) Board of Directors announced last thursday the company has authorized a quarterly dividend payment of $0.63 per share payable Sept. 24, 2010 to shareholders of record as of Sept. 1, 2010. Lockheed Martin stock has a dividend yield of 3.23% as of the close of markets on Friday, June 24, 2010. The company's dividend payout ratio is 33.3% which is a balanced cash flow management strategy employed by the company. The company has 371 million shares outstanding on the stock market with a total market capitalization of $28.96 billion.

> BestBuy Increases its Dividend by 7 Percent

(June 24, 2010)

Richfield, Minnesota - BestBuy (BBY) announced today it is upping its dividend from 14 cents a share to 15 cents, thereby increasing its dividend by 7%. The consumer electronics giant said this increased dividend will be paid to shareholders on Oct. 26 for stockholders on record Oct 5th, 2010. This is a move to return excess cash to shareholders said the company. The additional 1 cent a share will cost Bestbuy $17 million extra per year in dividend payments. During the company's annual shareholder meeting held on June 24/2010, CEO Brian Dunn said Bestbuy is seeing its electronics business expand due to "ubiquitous connectivity" — a convergence of personal electronics and online technology." He adds "The connected world is not simply a strategy to sell more stuff, it's about helping people get the services they need [and] connect with the people they love."

> Southern California Edison Declares Quarterly Dividend

(June 24, 2010)

Board of Directors of Southern California Edison today declared the following set of quarterly dividends:

- Quarterly dividends of $1.5125 per share on the Series A preference stock1, payable on July 31, 2010, to shareholders of record on July 6, 2010.

- Quarterly dividends of $0.255 per share on the 4.08% series of cumulative preferred stock, $0.265 per share on the 4.24% series of cumulative preferred stock and $0.29875 per share on the 4.78% series of cumulative preferred stock. Each of these dividends is payable on August 31, 2010, to shareholders of record on August 5, 2010.