Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 10, 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, 13 stocks go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.36%. 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
Ship Finance International	SFL	1.36B	9.22	1.12	4.80	9.89%
Fidus Investment Corporation	FDUS	264.00M	13.67	1.20	6.79	7.89%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	1.79B	16.89	1.47	7.89	6.67%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.48B	23.41	1.35	0.89	5.42%
Financial Institutions Inc.	FISI	262.55M	11.87	1.15	2.64	3.98%
Lumos Networks Corp.	LMOS	337.88M	17.88	4.69	1.61	3.52%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.98B	1317.50	1.87	1.17	2.62%
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.	GCAP	345.75M	19.44	1.93	1.77	2.06%
G&K Services Inc.	GK	1.03B	22.24	2.20	1.13	2.03%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.96B	27.41	1.36	1.92	1.99%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.72B	87.96	2.19	15.94	1.57%
American International Group	AIG	71.14B	10.83	0.73	1.12	0.83%