Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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 August 14, 2013. In total, 57 stocks go ex dividend - of which 15 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.18%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.85B	13.08	2.75	2.40	7.45%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	212.18B	8.98	1.20	0.47	5.11%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.96B	25.19	1.25	2.07	4.41%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.33B	54.80	2.47	1.27	3.44%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	48.80B	40.64	8.43	9.71	2.92%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.41B	-	1.20	2.02	2.44%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.71B	43.15	1.90	2.09	2.37%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.02B	7.88	1.66	0.21	2.15%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	12.07B	22.79	2.34	2.05	2.04%
United Technologies Corp.	UTX	95.10B	19.22	3.52	1.54	2.03%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	81.37B	18.19	3.95	4.61	1.74%
Diageo plc	DEO	80.77B	21.06	7.57	4.56	1.71%
PACCAR Inc.	PCAR	19.96B	19.71	3.27	1.24	1.42%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	17.37B	16.82	6.89	1.11	1.22%
The Sherwin-Williams Company	SHW	18.08B	27.49	10.05	1.86	1.12%
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.	CF	11.24B	6.65	2.26	1.91	0.84%
Visa, Inc.	V	141.65B	30.99	5.25	12.28	0.73%
EQT Corporation	EQT	12.58B	47.21	3.30	6.51	0.14%

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Next Week's Best Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 12 - 18, 2013. In total, 182 stocks go ex dividend - of which 61 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.28%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.54B	13.01	2.74	2.39	7.49%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	214.51B	8.18	1.19	0.47	5.08%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.89B	21.38	1.22	2.28	4.41%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.79B	44.28	1.91	2.13	4.37%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	17.66B	16.89	1.49	1.43	4.08%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.73B	27.91	1.27	1.07	3.97%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	11.26B	15.57	2.99	2.29	3.95%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	58.53B	12.15	3.84	2.55	3.62%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.39B	55.11	2.48	1.28	3.42%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.68	1.01	3.27%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	55.12B	23.52	4.22	1.56	3.01%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	49.01B	40.81	8.46	9.75	2.91%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	33.97B	59.81	5.16	1.32	2.88%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	272.88B	12.63	3.46	3.51	2.81%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	34.57B	20.22	1.52	1.72	2.70%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.02B	21.85	2.48	0.66	2.54%
International Paper Co.	IP	21.54B	21.93	3.21	0.75	2.50%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.57B	-	1.21	2.05	2.40%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	20.16B	7.38	1.10	0.15	2.15%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.48B	7.98	1.68	0.21	2.12%

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19 Foreign Stocks With Cheap Valuation And Good Yields

Top yielding foreign stocks with cheap price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Not only stocks from the United States are more expensive. Stock market all over the world rise to new highs but there are still some attractive opportunities.

Today I like to look at foreign dividend stocks. Europe could be a big source for cheap stocks because of the Euro crises. Sure they got a tough fight but if you believe that the 17 nation currency community will survive, you will definitely find some utilities or telecoms.

These are my stock screening criteria:

Headquarter: Ex-USA

Market Capitalization: Over 10 billion

Dividend Yield: +3 percent

Beta Ratio: Below 1

Forward P/E: Under 15

Nineteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which seven are High-Yields. Five of the results have a buy or better recommendation. The valuation is between 6 and 15 of the expected full year earnings.

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