Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 26, 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, 155 stocks go ex dividend - of which 86 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 stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PG&E Corp.	PCG	18.65B	20.09	1.34	1.22	4.31%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	31.26B	21.68	2.05	3.80	4.03%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	16.74B	82.01	1.96	13.50	3.30%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	46.39B	18.89	2.41	0.82	3.27%
Edison International	EIX	15.32B	11.55	1.64	1.23	2.87%
Fifth Third Bancorp	FITB	15.48B	9.39	1.17	3.85	2.66%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	68.01B	12.55	1.95	5.41	2.49%
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.	HST	13.25B	94.32	1.85	2.34	2.46%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	16.29B	27.14	3.00	8.31	2.43%
Deere & Company	DE	32.52B	9.67	3.79	0.85	2.42%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	12.86B	9.47	1.76	0.78	2.32%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	12.69B	11.09	1.08	0.58	2.23%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	35.07B	14.83	3.43	2.07	2.15%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	15.18B	25.22	3.95	2.79	1.87%
Mondelez International, Inc.	MDLZ	57.31B	29.96	1.82	1.63	1.75%
Western Digital Corp.	WDC	15.39B	16.58	1.95	1.00	1.55%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	26.77B	23.77	3.11	3.05	1.50%
Humana Inc.	HUM	15.17B	10.21	1.62	0.38	1.13%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	17.49B	19.25	3.65	2.56	0.93%
Morgan Stanley	MS	52.02B	38.96	0.84	1.52	0.73%