Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 07, 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 07, 2013. In total, 46 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.49%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	126.47B	21.27	12.86	3.13	4.24%
American Electric Power Co.	AEP	22.56B	18.63	1.45	1.49	4.23%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	15.69B	18.21	8.50	3.17	3.91%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	13.81B	17.09	7.41	2.82	3.84%
BT Group plc	BT	40.80B	13.81	43.37	1.49	3.73%
Unilever NV	UN	115.37B	18.92	6.76	1.69	3.44%
Spectra Energy Corp.	SE	24.09B	25.01	2.70	4.71	3.39%
Unilever plc	UL	117.64B	19.29	6.90	1.72	3.38%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	235.21B	12.02	1.58	4.98	2.71%
RPC Inc.	RES	3.20B	16.27	3.48	1.75	2.70%
AVX Corp.	AVX	2.23B	-	1.13	1.58	2.65%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	25.56B	14.92	1.32	3.79	2.53%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	260.02B	15.54	3.70	0.55	2.39%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	55.92B	117.51	0.87	0.83	2.18%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.46B	12.92	0.76	1.05	1.94%
Boeing Co.	BA	81.85B	19.62	10.88	0.99	1.80%
Reinsurance Group of America	RGA	4.98B	10.12	0.85	0.48	1.75%
CONSOL Energy Inc.	CNX	7.15B	57.93	1.78	1.42	1.60%
Alcoa, Inc.	AA	8.56B	80.00	0.67	0.37	1.50%
Rollins Inc.	ROL	3.72B	32.60	9.67	2.87	1.42%