Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 22, 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, 10 stocks go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	216.92M	21.66	1.04	10.74	7.48%
Select Income REIT Common Share	SIR	1.08B	12.56	1.18	6.85	6.72%
Eaton Vance California Municipal Bond Fnd II	EIA	43.65M	7.71	0.84	11.73	6.49%
Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte	OMAB	1.37B	21.51	2.84	5.61	4.58%
MVC Capital, Inc.	MVC	317.30M	11.02	0.81	12.02	3.89%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	97.53B	12.87	2.37	4.79	3.83%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares	NHTB	104.70M	13.04	0.80	2.75	3.53%
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical	SHI	2.81B	177.64	1.04	0.18	1.84%
ADTRAN Inc.	ADTN	1.48B	40.49	2.41	2.37	1.41%
Johnson Outdoors	JOUT	260.36M	13.44	1.34	0.61	1.10%

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

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, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 18 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.96B	18.05	2.39	7.57	6.37%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.75B	19.31	3.46	3.13	6.32%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	4.21B	37.23	1.60	2.97	6.23%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	10.15B	32.08	2.12	2.21	4.98%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.96B	60.93	0.97	2.76	4.00%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	97.53B	12.97	2.34	4.81	3.82%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.44B	13.34	1.17	3.87	3.62%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.14B	19.56	4.21	1.22	2.34%
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical	SHI	2.81B	177.64	1.04	0.18	2.10%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.60B	32.58	8.35	4.47	2.03%
Unum Group	UNM	8.48B	9.70	1.01	0.81	1.82%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.65B	-	3.54	1.57	1.78%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.16B	22.26	2.51	1.38	1.69%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	13.19B	-	2.26	2.08	1.53%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	50.85B	24.07	3.89	0.98	1.51%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.23B	18.30	4.24	1.26	0.95%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	3.17B	32.88	4.04	2.42	0.88%
SM Energy Company	SM	5.78B	-	3.78	3.09	0.11%

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17 Dividend Stocks With Most Recent Dividend Growth

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 17 stocks announced to raise their dividends last week. It’s good to see that dividend growth still works despite the fact the total number of stocks is still very weak.

United Technologies is the biggest dividend riser from the last week. The company announced to boost its future dividends by 10 percent. Other big stocks are Gladstone Investment and Johnson Outdoors.

You can find a detailed list about all dividend growth stocks from last week in the attached list. There is also a small sheet with price ratios which makes it easier to compare the results.

Most of the long-term dividend growers are high quality stocks with expensive price ratios. Only five shares have a current forward P/E of less than 15. 

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