Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 14, 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks August 14, 2013. In total, 57 stocks go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.18%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.85B	13.08	2.75	2.40	7.45%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	212.18B	8.98	1.20	0.47	5.11%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.96B	25.19	1.25	2.07	4.41%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.33B	54.80	2.47	1.27	3.44%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	48.80B	40.64	8.43	9.71	2.92%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.41B	-	1.20	2.02	2.44%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.71B	43.15	1.90	2.09	2.37%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.02B	7.88	1.66	0.21	2.15%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	12.07B	22.79	2.34	2.05	2.04%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	95.10B	19.22	3.52	1.54	2.03%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	81.37B	18.19	3.95	4.61	1.74%
Diageo plc	DEO	80.77B	21.06	7.57	4.56	1.71%
PACCAR Inc.	PCAR	19.96B	19.71	3.27	1.24	1.42%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	17.37B	16.82	6.89	1.11	1.22%
The Sherwin-Williams Company	SHW	18.08B	27.49	10.05	1.86	1.12%
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.	CF	11.24B	6.65	2.26	1.91	0.84%
Visa, Inc.	V	141.65B	30.99	5.25	12.28	0.73%
EQT Corporation	EQT	12.58B	47.21	3.30	6.51	0.14%

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These 42 Stocks Planning To Pay More Dividends

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Last week, around 42 companies announced a high dividend. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 15.51 percent.

It’s always good to see how the dividend growth strategy works. Some of the dividend growers have raised their payments forty times and more. The biggest names come from the oil and gas sector. Eni and Total are the two biggest stocks followed by the British spirit maker Diageo.

Five of the results have a double-digit dividend yield and seven yielding above five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend more than half, 26 in total, of the dividend growth stocks.

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