Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 04, 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, 75 stocks go ex dividend - of which 24 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.08%. 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
American Realty Capital Propert.	ARCP	2.18B	-	1.52	22.78	6.79%
CenturyLink, Inc.	CTL	20.01B	19.14	1.09	1.10	6.52%
China Petroleum & Chemical	SNP	81.24B	8.09	0.97	0.18	6.18%
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	3.65B	19.72	1.02	0.69	5.07%
Public Service Enterprise Group	PEG	16.40B	13.45	1.48	1.66	4.44%
BHP Billiton plc	BBL	154.58B	14.27	2.19	2.34	4.06%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	33.73B	104.20	3.07	2.58	3.86%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	216.97B	10.32	1.75	2.22	3.82%
BHP Billiton Ltd.	BHP	168.42B	15.55	2.38	2.55	3.73%
Waste Management, Inc.	WM	18.92B	22.22	2.91	1.38	3.61%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	199.13B	10.25	1.11	0.54	3.47%
Kimberly-Clark Corporation	KMB	35.96B	19.89	8.22	1.70	3.47%
Gannett Co., Inc.	GCI	5.51B	12.42	2.24	1.03	3.32%
American National Insurance	ANAT	2.81B	11.59	0.72	0.93	2.93%
Pepsico, Inc.	PEP	123.42B	18.80	5.45	1.87	2.85%
Baxter International Inc.	BAX	37.77B	17.30	5.19	2.63	2.82%
Genuine Parts Company	GPC	11.94B	17.31	3.88	0.89	2.79%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	8.96B	5.73	1.43	0.44	2.70%
SLM Corporation	SLM	10.56B	8.00	2.17	1.59	2.50%
CH Robinson Worldwide Inc.	CHRW	9.09B	15.58	6.06	0.75	2.46%