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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 08, 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 April 08, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.42%.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Verizon Communications Inc.
142.97B
159.03
4.25
1.23
4.18%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
6.61B
14.55
3.39
0.80
3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.
2.27B
15.95
1.70
0.95
3.83%
E-House (China) Holdings
507.25M
-
0.69
1.19
3.50%
CH Energy Group Inc.
978.23M
25.34
1.89
1.06
3.40%
General Mills, Inc.
31.60B
18.09
4.50
1.85
3.10%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.
3.64B
18.91
7.15
3.10
2.63%
Marsh & McLennan Companies
20.63B
17.66
3.14
1.73
2.45%
OGE Energy Corp.
6.95B
19.66
2.51
1.89
2.37%
Brady Corp.
1.67B
30.11
1.62
1.27
2.34%
Spreadtrum Communications
921.67M
10.14
2.49
1.29
1.89%
Gap Inc.
17.05B
15.73
6.09
1.09
1.64%
Hingham Institution for Savings
147.91M
11.16
1.60
3.03
1.49%
American Tower Corporation
31.05B
49.11
8.69
10.80
1.32%
Raven Industries Inc.
1.15B
22.06
5.22
2.79
1.32%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.
915.44M
16.96
2.81
1.24
1.13%
Intuit Inc.
19.18B
28.63
6.87
4.58
1.05%
InterDigital, Inc.
1.81B
6.86
3.48
2.73
0.91%
FEI Company
2.44B
22.57
2.90
2.73
0.51%