Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 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 July 24, 2013. In total, 8 stocks go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.65B	38.32	1.37	2.71	6.46%
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.46B	25.47	1.42	6.69	6.43%
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	1.19B	55.31	1.40	7.07	5.29%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.25B	61.15	0.73	2.15	4.19%
Fastenal Company	FAST	13.92B	31.69	8.16	4.33	2.13%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.77B	22.37	4.50	1.40	2.10%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.34B	-	3.46	1.54	1.83%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	12.38B	-	1.99	2.32	1.52%