Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 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 July 30, 2013. In total, 42 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13%.

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	8.66B	62.39	1.94	14.31	4.92%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	41.57B	11.01	1.60	3.18	4.45%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.77B	20.86	1.02	4.72	4.27%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	4.18B	41.85	4.65	0.98	3.96%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.55B	15.74	1.63	1.95	3.65%
Paychex, Inc.	PAYX	14.32B	25.17	8.08	6.16	3.57%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.14B	19.30	4.21	1.51	3.40%
MeadWestvaco Corporation	MWV	6.41B	37.09	1.91	1.17	2.75%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	22.41B	11.90	1.67	2.25	1.90%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	8.94B	13.11	0.93	1.03	1.73%
Advanced Semiconductor	ASX	6.16B	14.03	1.64	0.92	1.72%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	23.29B	20.13	1.35	1.19	1.59%
CARBO Ceramics Inc.	CRR	2.02B	26.21	2.77	3.34	1.36%
The AES Corporation	AES	9.30B	-	2.01	0.52	1.28%
First Republic Bank	FRC	5.59B	13.75	1.80	4.26	1.13%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.57B	23.47	4.27	0.35	1.07%
Aon Corporation	AON	21.41B	21.64	2.83	1.84	1.04%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.22B	32.72	21.43	3.47	0.85%

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George Soros’s Biggest Dividend Stock Buys As Of Q1/2013

The biggest dividend stocks buys from George Soros originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". George Soros is well known within the financial industry. He is a hedge fund manager who serves around $8.56 billion in 207 stocks. Last quarter, he added 74 new companies. It’s very interesting to see how big investors act because if they move, the market changes. The amounts are really big when they decide to place a 1 percent stake.

Today I like to look at the biggest dividend stock buys from George Soros. George is a real speculator. His 20 biggest changes had an impact to his portfolio between 0.34 percent and 1.3 percent. Only eight of his 20 biggest stock buys pay dividends.

In total, George Soros has a much diversified fund. His biggest position, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF – Put, has a portfolio weighting of 4.8 percent. The second biggest position is the oil & gas company Pioneer Natural Resources with a 3.4 percent share.

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