Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 18, 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 July 18, 2013. In total, 8 stocks go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.82%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.05B	9.11	1.63	11.02	6.13%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	57.86B	11.87	3.17	0.92	2.72%
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	QCOR	2.81B	15.06	14.39	5.13	2.06%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	10.97B	22.38	3.65	1.30	1.64%
Graco Inc.	GGG	4.12B	25.33	8.13	3.94	1.48%
Apache Corp.	APA	32.16B	17.72	1.05	1.93	0.98%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	9.10B	19.89	4.80	3.07	0.75%