Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 24, 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 24, 2013. In total, 8 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which two yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Intersections Inc.	INTX	185.22M	12.40	1.77	0.54	7.77%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	17.84B	13.21	0.87	1.04	4.83%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	227.20B	12.38	1.27	0.63	3.04%
Pope Resources LP	POPE	275.50M	-	4.10	5.10	2.90%
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.	MHP	15.12B	23.38	14.71	3.29	2.03%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.95B	15.35	-	2.41	1.62%
Deutsche Bank AG	DB	47.82B	187.64	0.60	1.16	1.53%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.61B	18.22	2.02	1.35	1.34%