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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 08, 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 08, 2013. In total, 49 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.65%.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
GlaxoSmithKline plc
125.59B
19.55
12.03
3.07
4.31%
American Electric Power Co.
24.53B
19.87
1.59
1.62
3.88%
Pfizer Inc.
206.37B
20.37
2.57
3.58
3.34%
Unilever NV
127.20B
21.16
6.07
1.89
3.29%
Macerich Co.
9.73B
35.76
3.16
11.04
3.28%
Unilever plc
129.29B
21.51
6.24
1.92
3.24%
Wells Fargo & Company
200.45B
10.74
1.24
4.19
3.17%
RPC Inc.
2.91B
12.46
3.19
1.56
3.03%
BB&T Corporation
21.81B
13.04
1.03
3.19
2.95%
Weyerhaeuser Co.
17.00B
34.88
4.00
2.26
2.58%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
259.54B
15.70
3.42
0.55
2.38%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.
2.55B
10.82
0.76
1.11
1.87%
Parker Hannifin Corporation
13.70B
13.65
2.57
1.05
1.87%
PPG Industries Inc.
21.65B
20.34
4.52
1.46
1.61%
Reinsurance Group of America
4.65B
6.74
0.68
0.46
1.52%
Rollins Inc.
3.52B
31.68
9.67
2.75
1.50%
CONSOL Energy Inc.
8.09B
28.09
2.04
1.53
1.41%
The Charles Schwab Corporation
22.46B
25.43
2.37
4.51
1.37%
Altera Corp.
10.59B
19.24
3.07
5.94
1.21%
Dana Holding Corporation
2.58B
14.04
1.40
0.37
1.14%