Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 Between May 13 - 19, 2013. In total, 179 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 67 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.26%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	102.55B	16.86	2.23	2.70	5.27%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	225.00B	8.64	1.19	0.49	4.82%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.27B	13.69	2.58	2.05	4.37%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	50.92B	21.81	1.24	2.33	4.24%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	18.03B	17.20	1.52	1.47	4.00%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	12.86B	7.41	0.33	0.21	3.83%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	30.59B	31.92	1.44	1.23	3.47%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.37B	24.96	2.37	1.34	3.43%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	238.88B	9.31	1.76	1.00	3.25%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	51.05B	22.18	4.17	1.48	3.25%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	273.00B	16.85	3.56	3.59	2.81%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	36.71B	17.36	1.46	1.81	2.75%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	38.62B	60.96	3.67	1.54	2.62%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	10.09B	21.66	3.41	4.65	2.59%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	55.63B	51.54	9.70	11.17	2.56%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.97B	-	1.22	1.64	2.33%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	46.16B	21.75	2.43	0.65	2.26%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	87.56B	17.61	3.33	1.47	2.25%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	22.44B	18.12	1.19	0.25	2.23%
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	61.16B	20.09	4.55	1.62	2.11%