Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 01, 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 May 01, 2013. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.36%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.	PNG	1.34B	22.79	1.53	3.45	6.34%
American Strategic Income P III	CSP	158.49M	-	-	-	6.06%
Barclays PLC	BCS	58.27B	-	0.67	1.72	4.58%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	32.78B	14.78	6.79	6.69	4.36%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	23.00B	16.41	7.64	4.59	4.26%
National Penn Bancshares Inc.	NPBC	1.41B	26.24	1.24	4.59	4.12%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	19.15B	23.74	2.88	0.51	4.04%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	7.85B	17.31	2.43	1.21	3.47%
Tesoro Logistics LP	TLLP	2.66B	33.86	-	16.95	3.30%
MOCON Inc.	MOCO	78.08M	31.38	2.30	1.76	3.12%
Ford Motor Co.	F	53.71B	9.63	3.36	0.40	2.93%
Credit Suisse Group	CS	43.76B	32.67	0.97	1.87	2.74%
Capitol Federal Financial, Inc.	CFFN	1.81B	25.28	1.08	5.63	2.53%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	765.99M	17.62	1.24	3.49	2.06%
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.	COKE	563.69M	25.08	4.16	0.35	1.64%
Ocean Shore Holding Co.	OSHC	102.81M	19.93	0.98	2.79	1.63%
Enersis S.A.	ENI	18.40B	15.75	1.50	1.32	1.07%
PetSmart, Inc.	PETM	6.88B	18.82	6.28	1.02	0.99%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	5.46B	15.44	2.35	1.37	0.89%
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad	EOC	14.31B	28.76	2.68	2.85	0.59%

41 Top Yielding Stocks With Ex-Dividend Date In May 2013

Monthly high yielding shares researched by “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Yields come down; the decay is full in process because of the growing stock prices. Dividend investors like me are seeking for higher yields at the market but the results getting rare.

My solution is to scout for lower yielding stocks with hope that the next dividend hike could lift the current yield above the 3 percent level. But it’s more work to predict dividends and your risk increases when you have missed some details.

I always have a big picture of stocks that go ex-dividend in the near future in order to get quick cash back from my investments. Sure it’s not a trading strategy because after the ex-dividend date, the stock is also traded lower in the amount of the dividend but it is a great information tool.

However, I screen every month some interesting high yielding stocks with ex-dividend date within the next month. As result, I found 41 stocks with an average dividend yield of 4.98 percent. Three stocks have a double-digit yield and ten a high yield. 18 stocks from the results have a buy or better recommendation.