Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 06, 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 May 06, 2013. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 20 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners	PVR	2.41B	-	1.90	2.40	8.72%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	9.01B	-	2.03	5.08	7.56%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP	APL	2.74B	38.67	1.52	2.20	6.38%
Inergy Midstream LLC	NRGM	2.19B	39.78	2.88	11.30	6.13%
Alliance Resource Partners LP	ARLP	2.76B	12.20	3.90	1.36	5.93%
DCP Midstream Partners LP	DPM	3.55B	21.05	2.83	2.06	5.70%
American Realty Capital Prp.	ARCP	2.50B	-	2.21	148.53	5.55%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.90B	5.18	2.60	1.63	5.27%
Federated Investors, Inc.	FII	2.32B	12.35	3.88	2.46	4.32%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	4.47B	36.89	1.94	7.35	4.28%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	11.81B	27.14	7.78	6.66	3.84%
Sanofi	SNY	140.50B	21.67	1.88	3.00	3.20%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	27.91B	14.48	5.86	4.19	2.42%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	10.31B	26.03	2.23	4.18	1.40%
Cheesecake Factory	CAKE	2.08B	20.86	3.52	1.13	1.22%
Waste Connections Inc.	WCN	4.61B	27.27	2.45	2.66	1.07%
UBS AG	UBS	67.98B	-	1.35	4.03	0.90%
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao	CBD	14.54B	27.54	3.39	0.57	0.33%