Next Week's 20 Top Yielding 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 March 18 - 24, 2013. In total, 73 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 35 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.44%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Capital Agency Corp.	AGNC	13.13B	7.51	1.03	6.23	15.10%
CYS Investments Inc	CYS	2.12B	4.40	0.88	7.22	13.21%
Oi SA	OIBR	2.08B	-	0.28	0.37	7.44%
Aviva plc	AV	4.52B	21.04	0.69	0.86	6.37%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	14.23B	15.75	1.60	1.40	3.71%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	2.82B	31.23	1.95	1.44	3.69%
Portland General Electric	POR	2.27B	16.10	1.32	1.26	3.59%
Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Inc.	PNY	2.54B	18.75	2.22	2.17	3.57%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.67B	18.28	1.40	1.87	3.47%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	201.63B	14.78	1.15	3.56	3.30%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	7.25B	-	2.37	0.15	3.17%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.24B	22.88	9.09	1.64	3.16%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	13.62B	14.40	2.11	3.20	2.47%
Kinross Gold Corporation	KGC	9.03B	-	0.92	2.09	2.02%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	44.18B	28.97	6.25	3.97	1.87%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	8.80B	21.43	3.59	2.35	1.84%
International Flavors & Fragrances	IFF	6.20B	24.64	4.98	2.20	1.79%
Total System Services, Inc.	TSS	4.53B	18.83	3.19	2.42	1.65%
International Game Technology	IGT	4.50B	17.92	3.60	2.01	1.65%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	8.07B	15.75	26.39	4.40	1.46%