Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 09, 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 09, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.11%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	AHGP	3.54B	18.05	7.93	1.74	5.00%
Enterprise Bancorp Inc.	EBTC	160.49M	12.58	1.12	2.33	2.81%
Exxon Mobil Corporation	XOM	405.29B	9.41	2.47	0.87	2.76%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	430.52B	10.95	3.18	2.55	2.66%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	12.28B	17.27	6.08	1.97	2.37%
Simplicity Bancorp, Inc.	SMPL	125.86M	19.64	0.82	3.19	2.14%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	44.15M	71.25	1.18	2.14	2.11%
National Instruments Corporation	NATI	3.44B	38.15	3.58	2.94	2.01%
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia	SONA	120.07M	18.18	1.17	3.20	1.93%
Rockwell Collins Inc.	COL	8.87B	15.16	7.93	1.90	1.84%
W.W. Grainger, Inc.	GWW	17.60B	25.60	5.63	1.95	1.47%