Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 18, 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, 11 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
Gladstone Investment	GAIN	190.63M	12.86	0.83	5.96	10.00%
Gladstone Land	LAND	105.85M	147.36	1.87	29.40	8.88%
Gladstone Commercial	GOOD	231.26M	-	1.39	4.20	8.03%
Pengrowth Energy	PGH	3.29B	-	0.85	2.69	7.38%
Vale S.A.	VALE	84.57B	20.26	1.20	1.81	4.57%
Codorus Valley Bancorp Inc.	CVLY	92.60M	9.98	1.18	2.00	2.34%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	58.11B	26.06	37.98	3.36	2.18%
Tri-County Financial Corporation	TCFC	60.00M	10.10	0.98	1.51	2.00%
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	QCOR	3.93B	18.04	15.00	6.34	1.50%
AAR Corp.	AIR	1.06B	20.24	1.13	0.51	1.09%
Apache Corp.	APA	35.37B	14.32	1.12	2.08	0.89%