Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 23, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 9 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 ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.37B	23.17	1.34	6.07	6.87%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	4.19B	37.01	1.59	2.95	6.40%
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	1.21B	54.88	1.12	6.80	5.77%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	10.13B	32.02	2.12	2.21	4.93%
Union Bankshares Inc.	UNB	96.54M	12.52	2.11	3.91	4.62%
Ohio Valley Banc Corp.	OVBC	81.65M	10.35	1.05	2.21	4.16%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.94B	60.51	0.97	2.74	4.03%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	205.85B	13.43	1.18	3.89	3.60%
First Busey Corporation	BUSE	455.33M	22.83	1.35	4.06	3.05%
Safe Bulkers, Inc.	SB	560.52M	6.04	1.13	3.13	2.74%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.15B	19.60	4.22	1.22	2.33%
Lakeland Financial Corp.	LKFN	570.93M	15.73	1.86	5.28	2.19%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.58B	32.53	8.34	4.46	2.04%
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation	KALU	1.23B	14.02	1.14	0.94	1.82%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.60B	-	3.53	1.56	1.79%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	2.03B	27.76	2.08	1.74	1.17%
HEICO Corp.	HEI	3.62B	37.92	6.27	3.76	0.21%
SM Energy Company	SM	5.77B	-	3.78	3.09	0.11%