Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 21, 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, 9 stocks go ex dividend - of which 5 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
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	894.52M	-	2.35	0.94	7.78%
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.93B	17.86	2.37	7.50	6.43%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.77B	19.49	3.49	3.16	6.26%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	1.34B	14.40	2.26	3.50	6.05%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.28B	24.99	2.15	12.88	5.23%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.10B	21.99	2.48	1.36	1.71%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	52.30B	24.76	4.00	1.01	1.47%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.15B	17.65	4.08	1.22	0.99%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	3.16B	32.71	4.02	2.41	0.88%