Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 08, 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 05, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	196.37B	27.83	2.23	1.55	5.05%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	146.19B	127.52	4.39	1.25	4.04%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.61B	16.28	3.21	0.77	3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.21B	14.13	1.61	0.91	3.92%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.48B	-	2.25	8.75	3.62%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.74B	18.00	4.52	1.82	3.11%
CSG International, Inc.	CSGS	748.38M	14.56	2.29	0.99	2.58%
United Microelectronics	UMC	6.11B	15.13	0.88	1.56	2.48%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.60B	33.39	1.54	1.35	2.45%
Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V.	IBA	1.73B	10.29	1.22	0.57	1.67%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.10B	23.34	4.76	2.82	1.58%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	145.10M	10.95	1.52	2.98	1.52%
Gap Inc.	GPS	19.90B	16.69	6.30	1.25	1.40%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	9.99B	8.16	0.67	0.86	1.30%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	838.93M	26.91	2.55	1.15	1.24%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.53B	23.45	5.19	4.17	1.09%
InterDigital, Inc.	IDCC	1.56B	6.48	3.09	2.44	1.05%
FEI Company	FEIC	2.82B	25.97	3.31	3.15	0.66%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.72B	19.11	1.92	1.38	0.45%