Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 76 stocks go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company	RRD	3.49B	-	87.23	0.34	5.42%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.20B	-	1.87	6.68	4.87%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.17B	-	2.02	4.59	4.24%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.76B	23.16	1.27	1.07	3.97%
Shaw Communications	SJR	11.26B	15.38	2.99	2.27	3.95%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	2.96B	23.53	1.95	1.24	3.94%
American Campus Communities	ACC	3.89B	80.76	1.49	6.46	3.88%
ALLETE, Inc.	ALE	2.04B	19.06	1.63	2.03	3.68%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	58.53B	12.15	3.84	2.55	3.62%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	5.11B	-	-	0.79	3.06%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	55.12B	23.52	4.22	1.56	3.01%
Helmerich & Payne Inc.	HP	7.23B	10.34	1.68	2.16	2.95%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	34.71B	55.92	4.43	1.24	2.88%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	272.88B	12.63	3.46	3.51	2.81%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.29B	17.28	1.66	1.22	2.66%
International Paper Co.	IP	21.54B	21.93	3.21	0.75	2.50%
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.	CLF	3.73B	-	0.76	0.65	2.46%
LPL Investment Holdings Inc.	LPLA	4.19B	24.91	3.53	1.09	1.93%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.	IACI	4.21B	22.01	2.58	1.39	1.90%
Applied Industrial Technologies	AIT	2.17B	18.59	2.94	0.89	1.79%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 14, 2013. In total, 29 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA	PT	4.71B	16.41	1.49	0.55	13.52%
Buckeye Partners LP	BPL	7.09B	28.93	2.78	1.63	6.18%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	102.55B	17.35	2.20	2.78	5.99%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.69B	270.18	2.34	8.32	4.04%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.91B	-	1.99	5.31	3.70%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.37B	24.96	2.37	1.34	3.43%
American Campus Communities	ACC	4.72B	78.95	1.79	8.57	3.00%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	273.00B	16.85	3.56	3.59	2.81%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	22.45B	18.12	1.18	0.25	2.23%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.40	1.33	1.50	1.98%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	25.13B	7.45	2.11	0.29	1.81%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	80.04B	18.06	4.10	4.59	1.76%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.25B	60.03	1.99	14.65	1.69%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	2.04B	19.20	1.74	1.21	1.48%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	36.73B	19.98	10.07	1.42	1.14%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	5.13B	18.75	3.38	2.44	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	14.09B	90.32	6.62	10.79	0.12%

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