Next Week's 20 Top 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between July 19 - 28, 2013. In total, 31 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.08%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	213.21M	17.11	1.01	10.10	7.36%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.63B	38.09	1.37	2.69	6.49%
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.45B	25.26	1.41	6.64	6.49%
Select Income REIT Common Share	SIR	1.09B	13.33	1.21	7.87	6.32%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	1.37B	16.04	2.55	3.62	5.91%
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	1.18B	54.73	1.38	7.00	5.34%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.59B	31.47	2.02	2.22	5.01%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.25B	61.36	0.73	2.16	4.18%
MVC Capital, Inc.	MVC	308.57M	432.33	0.79	13.36	4.16%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc.	NHTB	105.41M	12.65	0.81	2.83	3.48%
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc.	SKT	3.31B	55.56	6.89	9.16	2.53%
Lakeland Financial Corp.	LKFN	509.50M	14.24	1.66	4.59	2.45%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.74B	22.25	4.48	1.40	2.11%
ASM International NV	ASMI	2.29B	1.26	0.82	1.30	1.52%
Brinks Co.	BCO	1.35B	15.40	2.86	0.35	1.43%
ADTRAN Inc.	ADTN	1.56B	52.82	2.56	2.56	1.36%
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.	WST	2.54B	30.90	3.40	1.97	1.03%
HB Fuller Co.	FUL	2.06B	21.73	2.52	1.02	0.97%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.50B	19.37	4.61	1.44	0.85%
VSE Corp.	VSEC	247.03M	9.52	1.45	0.47	0.77%