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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 16, 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 16, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Seaspan Corp.
1.45B
28.52
1.15
2.19
5.48%
Giant Interactive Group
1.92B
11.96
3.73
5.47
5.24%
Select Medical Holdings
1.15B
8.22
1.55
0.39
4.87%
Atmos Energy Corporation
4.02B
17.22
1.58
1.17
3.15%
PartnerRe Ltd.
5.32B
6.15
0.78
0.96
2.75%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
37.56B
17.77
1.49
1.85
2.74%
Deluxe Corp.
1.99B
11.62
4.27
1.30
2.56%
Honeywell International Inc.
62.28B
20.45
4.63
1.65
2.07%
Ryder System, Inc.
R
3.20B
15.31
2.14
0.51
2.01%
Snap-on Inc.
5.33B
16.91
2.91
1.81
1.66%
Hanesbrands Inc.
5.01B
16.61
5.28
1.11
1.57%
Bunge Limited
10.61B
28.75
0.93
0.17
1.50%
FLIR Systems, Inc.
3.50B
16.34
2.35
2.49
1.46%
Moody's Corp.
14.86B
21.44
32.53
5.28
1.20%
Watts Water Technologies
1.66B
23.55
1.77
1.15
1.11%
Woodward, Inc.
2.54B
17.91
2.38
1.35
0.87%
Tractor Supply Company
8.00B
29.63
7.74
1.69
0.70%