Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap 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 day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 19 - 25, 2013. In total, 95 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.93%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.88B	16.87	9.55	4.29	5.40%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.92B	10.26	1.08	1.82	4.77%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.96B	13.37	1.18	3.87	3.61%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	251.10B	19.86	3.61	3.59	2.95%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	10.16B	15.87	32.96	5.54	2.84%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.39B	19.19	1.76	3.28	2.81%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.30B	18.92	1.22	1.85	2.74%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.64B	19.81	1.27	1.93	2.62%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.73	2.49	2.56%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.04B	16.10	2.67	0.60	2.51%
Marathon Petroleum	MPC	22.54B	7.11	1.88	0.25	2.40%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.16B	8.41	2.06	1.11	2.31%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.29B	24.75	3.33	2.63	2.29%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.43	1.28	1.48	2.22%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.70B	20.36	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.31B	29.74	19.15	3.12	2.04%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.07B	22.72	-	1.61	2.03%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%