Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 30, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks April 30, 2013. In total, 10 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.53%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Merchants Bancshares Inc.	MBVT	188.07M	12.36	1.58	3.36	3.75%
ABB Ltd.	ABB	53.01B	19.41	3.11	1.35	3.14%
Sierra Bancorp	BSRR	180.03M	20.90	1.03	3.34	1.88%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	25.49B	13.39	1.94	2.52	1.67%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.68B	34.12	8.95	4.63	1.62%
Cardinal Financial Corp.	CFNL	461.92M	10.25	1.47	4.20	1.57%
Peapack-Gladstone Financial	PGC	129.46M	13.46	1.04	2.34	1.39%
Petroleo Brasileiro	PBR-A	126.10B	12.16	0.75	0.91	1.24%
Petroleo Brasileiro	PBR	117.60B	10.67	0.70	0.82	0.67%
KB Home	KBH	1.92B	-	4.07	1.13	0.43%