Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 76 stocks go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.75%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company	RRD	3.49B	-	87.23	0.34	5.42%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.20B	-	1.87	6.68	4.87%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.17B	-	2.02	4.59	4.24%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.76B	23.16	1.27	1.07	3.97%
Shaw Communications	SJR	11.26B	15.38	2.99	2.27	3.95%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	2.96B	23.53	1.95	1.24	3.94%
American Campus Communities	ACC	3.89B	80.76	1.49	6.46	3.88%
ALLETE, Inc.	ALE	2.04B	19.06	1.63	2.03	3.68%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	58.53B	12.15	3.84	2.55	3.62%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	5.11B	-	-	0.79	3.06%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	55.12B	23.52	4.22	1.56	3.01%
Helmerich & Payne Inc.	HP	7.23B	10.34	1.68	2.16	2.95%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	34.71B	55.92	4.43	1.24	2.88%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	272.88B	12.63	3.46	3.51	2.81%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.29B	17.28	1.66	1.22	2.66%
International Paper Co.	IP	21.54B	21.93	3.21	0.75	2.50%
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.	CLF	3.73B	-	0.76	0.65	2.46%
LPL Investment Holdings Inc.	LPLA	4.19B	24.91	3.53	1.09	1.93%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.	IACI	4.21B	22.01	2.58	1.39	1.90%
Applied Industrial Technologies	AIT	2.17B	18.59	2.94	0.89	1.79%

Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week 4/2012

Stocks With Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 37 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 14 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 12.58 percent.