Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.14%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
CPFL Energia S.A.	CPL	7.78B	15.55	2.69	1.21	5.81%
CIFC Corp.	CIFC	162.31M	26.90	0.61	15.46	5.13%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.34B	23.95	4.50	1.20	3.23%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	249.50B	19.73	3.58	3.56	2.97%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	1.56B	5.58	1.61	0.17	2.27%
Rocky Brands, Inc.	RCKY	132.81M	12.53	1.04	0.54	2.26%
Prudential Financial, Inc.	PRU	36.06B	-	1.03	0.45	2.06%
Elbit Systems Ltd.	ESLT	1.92B	10.92	1.84	0.67	1.96%
YPF S.A.	YPF	6.45B	10.12	1.15	0.47	1.95%
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.	MHFI	16.25B	22.53	13.28	3.40	1.89%
KeyCorp	KEY	11.05B	14.06	1.11	4.12	1.82%
Parker Hannifin Corporation	PH	15.20B	16.36	2.65	1.17	1.77%
John Bean Technologies	JBT	659.34M	17.50	6.07	0.72	1.59%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.71B	23.44	1.76	1.47	1.38%
Carpenter Technology	CRS	2.90B	20.11	2.23	1.28	1.31%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	618.62M	95.00	0.98	0.33	0.88%
Nordson Corporation	NDSN	4.48B	19.57	6.09	2.90	0.86%
Marten Transport Ltd.	MRTN	600.44M	20.55	1.75	0.92	0.39%

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50 Fastest Growing Dividend Stocks In May 2013

Stocks with highest dividend growth originally researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. When a company raises dividends, it’s always a good sign. A firm with a growing dividend let your passive income grow and could put you on the next level of your financial freedom.

But more important than a dividend hike is the intensiveness of the dividend growth. A one percent hike each year is good but it won’t help you over the time. What you need is a stronger growth, something in the range around the 10 percent level.

Today I run my screen of the 50 fastest dividend growers from last month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. All stocks still have a double digit-growth rate. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 49.42 percent. The average yield is at 3.47 percent.

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