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

Next Week's Top 20 Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between May 06-12, 2013. In total, 122 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 41 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.26%.

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	GSK	125.78B	18.23	11.49	3.07	5.39%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.69B	10.90	1.33	1.21	4.67%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	11.80B	27.10	7.77	6.66	3.84%
American Electric Power Co.	AEP	24.81B	19.65	1.63	1.66	3.68%
Pfizer Inc.	PFE	208.10B	22.98	2.59	3.53	3.31%
Wisconsin Energy Corp.	WEC	10.19B	18.95	2.45	2.40	3.05%
Sanofi	SNY	147.86B	22.80	1.97	3.16	3.04%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	21.65B	12.95	1.03	3.17	2.97%
Unilever plc	UL	129.89B	21.72	6.27	1.94	2.97%
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV	PHG	27.05B	157.00	1.76	0.85	2.94%
Wynn Resorts Ltd.	WYNN	14.01B	28.86	-	2.72	2.88%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	44.40B	37.83	0.69	0.65	2.72%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	199.60B	10.69	1.23	4.18	2.65%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	16.71B	43.17	4.09	2.37	2.61%
Unilever NV	UN	127.92B	21.39	6.15	1.91	2.57%
Exxon Mobil Corporation	XOM	402.43B	9.29	2.44	0.86	2.53%
Rockwell Automation Inc.	ROK	11.90B	16.72	5.89	1.91	2.44%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	260.93B	15.79	3.44	0.56	2.37%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	422.37B	10.74	3.12	2.50	2.36%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	28.99B	15.04	6.09	4.35	2.33%