Companies Going Ex-Dividend Tuesday Of Next Week

Summary
Companies with heavy commodities exposure continue to see pressure on their financials.
Average Dividend Amount of $0.11.
Financial stocks continue to make improvements to their asset bases with non-performing loans decreasing.
For those needing a quick primer on the what "going Ex-Dividend" means, Dividend.com defines it as
"The day on which all shares bought and sold no longer come attached with the right to be paid the most recently declared dividend."
In the most simplistic form, if you buy the dividend-paying stock before its ex-dividend date, you will receive the very next dividend payment while buying the same stock after the ex-dividend date will require you to wait until for the next dividend to be paid.

Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. (ARP):
Atlas Resource Partners reported its second quarter financial results for 2015 on August 6, 2015, with total revenues dropping 31% to $96 million from $138 million in the same period last year. Expenses only fell 18% to $118 million from $145 million in the same quarter last year, leading to a loss of $22 million or 292% worse than last years loss of $6.1 million. Following an increase in interest expenses, net income dropped 141% to a loss of $46.8 million from a loss of $19.3 million in the same period last year. This article by Daniel Jones goes into great detail about why Atlas could be a good long term investment in the face of falling commodity... Read more