Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 30, 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 30, 2013. In total, 49 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.21%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Realty Income Corp.	O	9.57B	68.72	1.70	17.90	4.45%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	34.52B	12.43	114.63	0.74	4.27%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.	AEM	4.94B	19.19	1.43	2.65	3.08%
Kellogg Company	K	23.80B	25.58	8.42	1.63	2.72%
The Wendy's Company	WEN	2.40B	-	1.22	0.96	2.62%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	11.15B	15.14	1.15	1.21	2.42%
Associated Banc-Corp	ASBC	2.60B	14.93	0.89	3.65	2.06%
Polaris Industries, Inc.	PII	6.40B	20.16	8.73	1.95	1.80%
ITC Holdings Corp.	ITC	4.66B	24.25	3.20	5.47	1.70%
ManpowerGroup	MAN	4.43B	25.22	1.77	0.22	1.60%
Expeditors International of Washington	EXPD	8.18B	24.74	3.89	1.37	1.52%
Hillshire Brands Company	HSH	4.36B	55.31	10.32	1.09	1.41%
Nike Inc.	NKE	56.55B	25.11	5.30	2.25	1.33%
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	2.58B	9.46	1.70	0.59	1.32%
Hartford Financial Services Group	HIG	13.96B	-	0.64	0.50	1.31%
Imperial Oil Ltd.	IMO	33.27B	9.69	2.01	1.08	1.20%
Silgan Holdings Inc.	SLGN	3.03B	22.88	5.93	0.84	1.18%
Ball Corporation	BLL	6.62B	17.87	6.16	0.76	1.17%
Fluor Corporation	FLR	10.47B	22.95	3.00	0.37	1.00%
Lufkin Industries Inc.	LUFK	2.99B	33.19	3.64	2.27	0.57%

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60 Stocks And 6 Funds Raised Dividend Payments Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week was an interesting one because some of the big players announced a dividend hike, in-line with the expectations of the market. They are still continuing long-term dividend grower. Below the results are IBM, PepsiCo, Costco, American Express or Royal Dutch. 

In total, 60 shares and six ETFs announced a hike, in average a 30.05 percent increase. Eleven of them pay a high yields; 37 have a current buy or better recommendation. 

The markets are at All-Time-Highs and nobody scares this. I hate it when stocks getting more expensive and yields go rapidly down because I must limit my stock purchases. In such an environment, a dividend growth investor can’t build values when a slow growing stock pays a 1.5 percent yield - a value similar to the bond market yields. Let’s hope that earnings and sales grow in the same amount.

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