Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 August 08, 2013. In total, 12 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.59%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	AHGP	3.87B	18.14	8.36	1.79	4.86%
PetMed Express Inc.	PETS	326.10M	18.26	4.93	1.40	3.65%
Artisan Partners Asset Managem.	APAM	661.91M	273.68	-	1.01	3.31%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	427.39B	11.62	3.46	2.52	2.62%
Southern National Bancorp of Virg.	SONA	113.47M	20.40	1.08	3.09	2.45%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	40.74M	263.00	1.08	2.05	2.28%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	13.95B	19.08	6.95	2.21	2.09%
Altera Corp.	ALTR	11.61B	23.37	3.37	6.57	1.66%
Penske Automotive Group, Inc.	PAG	3.50B	16.33	2.58	0.26	1.65%
PPG Industries Inc.	PPG	23.15B	21.58	4.59	1.55	1.51%
National Security Group Inc.	NSEC	17.61M	-	0.58	0.30	1.40%
First Bancshares Inc.	FBMS	40.53M	10.57	0.81	1.54	1.15%