Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 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.

In total, 192 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 95 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.02%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Ares Capital Corporation	ARCC	4.72B	8.33	1.09	5.87	8.57%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	70.03B	15.97	19.65	2.88	5.49%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.62B	14.49	3.10	1.74	5.12%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	8.34B	15.80	2.48	3.12	4.22%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.54B	-	1.78	7.45	4.07%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.61B	16.47	1.54	1.25	3.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	4.82B	33.60	3.15	10.27	3.69%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.91B	16.58	1.37	1.80	3.59%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	144.42B	28.56	3.04	3.22	3.58%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.12B	21.25	4.56	4.33	3.47%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.09B	15.25	3.95	1.51	3.41%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	18.12B	-	1.32	9.46	3.00%
UGI Corp.	UGI	4.44B	16.32	1.78	0.63	2.91%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	171.75B	20.44	5.33	3.61	2.90%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.41B	46.12	-	5.80	2.89%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.26B	23.73	1.68	2.72	2.84%
Owens & Minor Inc.	OMI	2.18B	21.10	2.21	0.24	2.76%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.31B	11.75	11.11	1.86	2.69%
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.	FNF	5.60B	9.21	1.28	0.65	2.57%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	2.17B	16.19	0.80	0.95	2.52%