Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 01, 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 August 01, 2013. In total, 9 stocks go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.50%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Southern Company	SO	39.52B	19.33	2.19	2.35	4.47%
EQT Midstream Partners, LP	EQM	1.66B	34.99	3.51	10.05	3.34%
Pope Resources LP	POPE	306.92M	24.22	4.36	4.55	2.56%
AmeriServ Financial, Inc.	ASRV	57.12M	15.00	0.63	1.46	1.33%
Federated National Holding	FNHC	81.03M	14.71	1.18	1.07	1.18%
Peoples Federal Bancshares, Inc.	PEOP	107.68M	79.43	1.00	5.41	0.88%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	63.79B	10.09	1.70	2.19	0.62%
Citigroup	C	157.45B	16.54	0.82	2.42	0.08%