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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 07, 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 August 07, 2013. In total, 46 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.49%.

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
126.47B
21.27
12.86
3.13
4.24%
American Electric Power Co.
22.56B
18.63
1.45
1.49
4.23%
Reed Elsevier plc
15.69B
18.21
8.50
3.17
3.91%
Reed Elsevier NV
13.81B
17.09
7.41
2.82
3.84%
BT Group plc
40.80B
13.81
43.37
1.49
3.73%
Unilever NV
115.37B
18.92
6.76
1.69
3.44%
Spectra Energy Corp.
24.09B
25.01
2.70
4.71
3.39%
Unilever plc
117.64B
19.29
6.90
1.72
3.38%
Wells Fargo & Company
235.21B
12.02
1.58
4.98
2.71%
RPC Inc.
3.20B
16.27
3.48
1.75
2.70%
AVX Corp.
2.23B
-
1.13
1.58
2.65%
BB&T Corporation
25.56B
14.92
1.32
3.79
2.53%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
260.02B
15.54
3.70
0.55
2.39%
MetLife, Inc.
55.92B
117.51
0.87
0.83
2.18%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.
2.46B
12.92
0.76
1.05
1.94%
Boeing Co.
81.85B
19.62
10.88
0.99
1.80%
Reinsurance Group of America
4.98B
10.12
0.85
0.48
1.75%
CONSOL Energy Inc.
7.15B
57.93
1.78
1.42
1.60%
Alcoa, Inc.
8.56B
80.00
0.67
0.37
1.50%
Rollins Inc.
3.72B
32.60
9.67
2.87
1.42%