Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 22, 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 22, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	449.15M	10.79	1.23	6.99	9.20%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	4.09B	-	-	0.62	3.92%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	218.32B	15.88	1.25	3.85	3.41%
Exelis, Inc.	XLS	2.27B	7.51	2.16	0.43	3.39%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.39B	18.69	1.16	1.78	2.83%
Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd.	GSH	3.46B	16.50	0.81	1.38	2.83%
Questar Corporation	STR	4.53B	21.72	4.19	3.94	2.79%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.60B	19.51	1.21	1.86	2.71%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.00B	34.28	4.95	1.12	2.67%
American Water Works Company	AWK	7.59B	19.87	1.68	2.62	2.62%
W&T Offshore Inc.	WTI	1.15B	15.41	2.12	1.28	2.36%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	3.67B	17.07	5.95	1.62	1.91%
Hershey Co.	HSY	19.87B	28.74	17.87	2.95	1.89%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	4.96B	22.81	5.72	1.21	1.80%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.32B	23.57	-	1.07	1.57%
Heartland Financial USA Inc.	HTLF	465.47M	9.97	1.13	2.47	1.45%
National Interstate Corporation	NATL	596.92M	18.23	1.64	1.15	1.45%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.51B	27.08	3.72	3.41	1.41%
Core-Mark Holding Company	CORE	662.51M	20.46	1.66	0.07	1.32%
ITT Corporation	ITT	2.76B	24.15	4.22	1.22	1.30%