Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 21, 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.

In total, 94 stocks go ex dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.09%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.76B	30.58	2.05	2.13	5.03%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.75B	10.16	1.07	1.80	4.81%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	203.07B	13.25	1.17	3.84	3.65%
Prudential plc	PUK	47.13B	18.40	3.15	0.56	3.38%
Intercontinental Hotels Group plc	IHG	10.20B	15.93	33.08	5.56	2.83%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.81B	18.60	1.19	1.81	2.79%
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers	RBA	2.04B	27.70	3.08	4.64	2.72%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.17B	19.50	1.25	1.90	2.66%
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.69B	16.68	9.44	4.25	2.57%
3M Co.	MMM	79.56B	18.12	4.45	2.63	2.20%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.18B	29.56	19.03	3.10	2.05%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.06B	22.71	-	1.61	2.03%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.59B	17.14	2.97	1.85	1.58%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.52B	25.77	3.59	3.33	1.42%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	4.97B	21.40	7.17	2.12	1.42%
Primerica, Inc.	PRI	2.17B	13.88	1.90	1.77	1.14%