Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 22, 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 22, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 7 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	449.15M	10.79	1.23	6.99	9.20%
Cablevision Systems Corporation	CVC	4.09B	-	-	0.62	3.92%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	218.32B	15.88	1.25	3.85	3.41%
Exelis, Inc.	XLS	2.27B	7.51	2.16	0.43	3.39%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.39B	18.69	1.16	1.78	2.83%
Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd.	GSH	3.46B	16.50	0.81	1.38	2.83%
Questar Corporation	STR	4.53B	21.72	4.19	3.94	2.79%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.60B	19.51	1.21	1.86	2.71%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	3.00B	34.28	4.95	1.12	2.67%
American Water Works Company	AWK	7.59B	19.87	1.68	2.62	2.62%
W&T Offshore Inc.	WTI	1.15B	15.41	2.12	1.28	2.36%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	3.67B	17.07	5.95	1.62	1.91%
Hershey Co.	HSY	19.87B	28.74	17.87	2.95	1.89%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	4.96B	22.81	5.72	1.21	1.80%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.32B	23.57	-	1.07	1.57%
Heartland Financial USA Inc.	HTLF	465.47M	9.97	1.13	2.47	1.45%
National Interstate Corporation	NATL	596.92M	18.23	1.64	1.15	1.45%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.51B	27.08	3.72	3.41	1.41%
Core-Mark Holding Company	CORE	662.51M	20.46	1.66	0.07	1.32%
ITT Corporation	ITT	2.76B	24.15	4.22	1.22	1.30%

Next Week's 20 Best Yielding 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 20-26, 2013. In total, 85 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 25 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.15%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	215.19B	15.66	1.23	3.80	6.23%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	17.58B	12.79	0.86	1.01	4.84%
Eni SpA	E	88.96B	30.99	1.11	0.54	4.58%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.61B	16.67	1.71	2.18	3.77%
CA Technologies	CA	12.55B	13.98	2.31	2.68	3.61%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	16.16B	20.52	5.30	2.49	3.08%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	247.44B	24.00	3.69	3.61	3.00%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	232.20B	12.65	1.30	0.65	2.98%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.14B	18.52	1.15	1.76	2.86%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.21B	19.25	1.20	1.83	2.75%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	17.95B	-	2.51	2.22	2.67%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.75B	8.73	1.66	1.02	2.53%
The McGraw-Hill Companies	MHP	15.27B	23.60	14.85	3.32	2.01%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	22.47B	7.25	1.26	0.16	1.94%
Hershey Co.	HSY	20.16B	29.16	18.13	2.99	1.86%
Deutsche Bank AG	DB	49.39B	193.80	0.62	1.18	1.40%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.68B	15.27	2.19	2.36	1.20%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.43B	23.77	-	1.08	1.19%
China Unicom (Hong Kong)	CHU	35.05B	27.52	1.02	0.83	1.14%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.43B	33.82	4.51	2.73	0.92%