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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 22, 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 22, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.38%.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Medley Capital Corporation
449.15M
10.79
1.23
6.99
9.20%
Cablevision Systems Corporation
4.09B
-
-
0.62
3.92%
HSBC Holdings plc
218.32B
15.88
1.25
3.85
3.41%
Exelis, Inc.
2.27B
7.51
2.16
0.43
3.39%
Carnival Corporation
27.39B
18.69
1.16
1.78
2.83%
Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd.
3.46B
16.50
0.81
1.38
2.83%
Questar Corporation
4.53B
21.72
4.19
3.94
2.79%
Carnival plc
28.60B
19.51
1.21
1.86
2.71%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro
3.00B
34.28
4.95
1.12
2.67%
American Water Works Company
7.59B
19.87
1.68
2.62
2.62%
W&T Offshore Inc.
1.15B
15.41
2.12
1.28
2.36%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.
3.67B
17.07
5.95
1.62
1.91%
Hershey Co.
19.87B
28.74
17.87
2.95
1.89%
Robert Half International Inc.
4.96B
22.81
5.72
1.21
1.80%
Marriott International, Inc.
13.32B
23.57
-
1.07
1.57%
Heartland Financial USA Inc.
465.47M
9.97
1.13
2.47
1.45%
National Interstate Corporation
596.92M
18.23
1.64
1.15
1.45%
Equifax Inc.
7.51B
27.08
3.72
3.41
1.41%
Core-Mark Holding Company
662.51M
20.46
1.66
0.07
1.32%
ITT Corporation
2.76B
24.15
4.22
1.22
1.30%