Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 12, 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 12, 2013. In total, 22 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.74%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Sandridge Mississippian Trust II	SDR	774.72M	8.11	1.81	7.49	17.52%
SandRidge Mississippian Trust I	SDT	401.80M	5.04	1.58	4.71	17.00%
SandRidge Permian Trust	PER	827.93M	6.57	1.72	6.06	14.84%
TECO Energy, Inc.	TE	3.85B	16.88	1.67	1.31	4.92%
United Online, Inc.	UNTD	776.04M	105.00	1.67	0.90	4.76%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	17.75B	16.97	1.49	1.44	4.06%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	4.65B	-	3.24	9.37	3.58%
Wisconsin Energy Corp.	WEC	9.94B	18.28	2.37	2.26	3.52%
Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc.	SASR	614.46M	14.06	1.27	4.21	2.60%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	20.11B	7.36	1.10	0.15	2.16%
Protective Life Corp.	PL	3.44B	12.63	0.76	0.95	1.84%
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.	FDP	1.70B	14.03	0.93	0.49	1.70%
Micrel Inc.	MCRL	599.60M	54.16	2.61	2.41	1.65%
Pool Corp.	POOL	2.50B	30.84	7.22	1.25	1.42%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	10.64B	24.55	2.27	4.24	1.36%
United States Steel Corp.	X	2.61B	-	0.75	0.14	1.11%
Home Bancshares, Inc.	HOMB	1.53B	22.49	2.87	8.26	1.10%
Carriage Services Inc.	CSV	326.32M	28.11	2.32	1.55	0.56%