Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 11, 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 July 11, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	1.48B	5.53	0.54	4.01	19.22%
Fifth Street Finance Corp.	FSC	1.14B	10.13	1.08	5.99	10.71%
Consolidated Communications	CNSL	723.46M	60.66	5.72	1.28	8.52%
Associated Estates Realty Corp.	AEC	818.46M	126.85	2.03	4.50	4.61%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	26.26B	9.00	1.46	1.46	4.52%
Mid-America Apartment Comm.	MAA	2.87B	42.41	3.08	5.59	4.10%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.86B	15.21	2.95	2.25	4.01%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	68.79B	12.78	23.29	3.71	3.69%
AuRico Gold Inc.	AUQ	1.18B	-	0.59	6.06	3.51%
City Holding Co.	CHCO	655.59M	17.36	1.79	5.57	3.49%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	4.74B	9.94	2.06	0.43	3.40%
Harsco Corporation	HSC	1.99B	-	2.42	0.66	3.32%
Rouse Properties, Inc.	RSE	999.96M	-	2.01	4.21	2.57%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.76B	-	1.09	1.03	1.66%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	54.50B	70.90	2.41	2.52	1.61%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.60B	15.91	8.12	2.30	1.47%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	2.82B	10.78	1.32	0.73	1.42%
Ryland Group Inc.	RYL	1.78B	30.31	3.29	1.21	0.31%

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41 Top Yielding Stocks With Ex-Dividend Date In May 2013

Monthly high yielding shares researched by “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Yields come down; the decay is full in process because of the growing stock prices. Dividend investors like me are seeking for higher yields at the market but the results getting rare.

My solution is to scout for lower yielding stocks with hope that the next dividend hike could lift the current yield above the 3 percent level. But it’s more work to predict dividends and your risk increases when you have missed some details.

I always have a big picture of stocks that go ex-dividend in the near future in order to get quick cash back from my investments. Sure it’s not a trading strategy because after the ex-dividend date, the stock is also traded lower in the amount of the dividend but it is a great information tool.

However, I screen every month some interesting high yielding stocks with ex-dividend date within the next month. As result, I found 41 stocks with an average dividend yield of 4.98 percent. Three stocks have a double-digit yield and ten a high yield. 18 stocks from the results have a buy or better recommendation.

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