Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 31, 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 July 31, 2013. In total, 17 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
CCA Industries Inc.	CAW	24.62M	-	1.08	0.51	8.02%
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.	PNG	1.56B	21.73	1.29	3.83	6.51%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.06B	9.18	1.64	11.10	6.08%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	18.38B	1.82	2.73	0.38	4.30%
CMS Energy Corp.	CMS	7.48B	17.46	2.25	1.14	3.61%
Tesoro Logistics LP	TLLP	2.42B	32.18	6.38	13.41	3.56%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	212.30B	20.95	2.58	3.69	3.25%
MOCON Inc.	MOCO	78.95M	39.72	2.35	1.43	3.08%
PNM Resources, Inc.	PNM	1.89B	19.22	1.18	1.39	2.79%
Capitol Federal Financial, Inc.	CFFN	1.84B	26.37	1.12	5.89	2.37%
Ford Motor Co.	F	67.00B	11.54	3.80	0.49	2.34%
Ocean Shore Holding Co.	OSHC	96.61M	20.67	0.91	2.68	1.61%
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.	COKE	597.02M	25.35	4.27	0.37	1.55%
SB Financial Group, Inc.	SBFG	38.62M	7.49	0.71	1.49	1.51%
Pall Corp.	PLL	7.81B	25.17	4.50	2.94	1.43%
PetSmart, Inc.	PETM	7.47B	19.60	7.10	1.09	0.91%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	5.81B	15.87	2.48	1.42	0.83%