Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 17, 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 2 yield more than 3 percent. 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 stock:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Dorchester Minerals LP	DMLP	745.40M	18.41	6.68	11.47	6.50%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.05B	9.56	1.59	10.19	6.39%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	55.73B	13.53	3.16	0.92	2.80%
McGrath Rentcorp	MGRC	887.90M	20.48	2.29	2.35	2.74%
RPM International Inc.	RPM	4.77B	29.26	3.96	1.14	2.44%
WD-40 Company	WDFC	1.01B	25.43	5.57	2.81	1.90%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	11.27B	22.91	3.70	1.31	1.60%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	72.47B	17.47	1.86	0.59	1.52%
NetApp, Inc.	NTAP	14.28B	28.46	3.55	2.23	1.47%
Home Federal Bancorp of Louisiana	HFBL	35.55M	12.89	0.85	2.69	1.43%
Graco Inc.	GGG	4.68B	25.11	8.36	4.40	1.31%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	9.45B	56.41	6.05	3.17	0.71%