Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 23, 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 23, 2013. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which none yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.91%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	248.84B	24.14	3.71	3.63	2.98%
Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc.	DNKN	4.41B	43.58	12.74	6.61	1.84%
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	3.90B	9.67	0.76	0.45	1.66%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	2.18B	7.14	2.30	0.25	1.65%
Guaranty Bancorp	GBNK	1.17B	81.86	6.47	16.86	0.87%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	700.58M	55.67	1.10	0.38	0.86%
Rocky Brands, Inc.	RCKY	122.20M	13.54	0.96	0.53	0.62%
Hecla Mining Co.	HL	960.99M	84.25	0.84	3.14	0.30%
Vulcan Materials Company	VMC	7.14B	-	1.92	2.78	0.07%