Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 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.

In total, 22 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp.	ANH	669.33M	7.73	0.78	3.70	10.34%
AT&T, Inc.	T	181.61B	25.57	2.11	1.42	5.33%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.08B	16.57	2.94	0.70	4.71%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	134.94B	87.22	3.96	1.14	4.50%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.16B	15.50	1.61	0.87	4.01%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	5.90B	-	2.09	7.85	3.98%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	30.83B	18.03	4.52	1.70	3.17%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	54.12B	23.09	4.14	1.53	3.07%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.54B	-	1.86	1.34	2.61%
Ingles Markets Inc.	IMKTA	659.00M	53.37	1.65	0.17	2.42%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	7.13B	21.02	2.53	1.97	2.34%
Covidien plc	COV	28.04B	16.80	2.90	2.63	2.12%
Choice Hotels International Inc.	CHH	2.50B	22.43	-	3.52	1.72%
Kadant Inc.	KAI	360.38M	13.00	1.43	1.12	1.55%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.14B	25.92	4.82	2.98	1.53%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	776.42M	24.20	2.32	1.06	1.49%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.91B	26.12	1.96	1.64	1.24%
Aetna Inc.	AET	23.67B	13.26	1.76	0.59	1.20%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	19.76B	24.20	5.59	4.74	1.15%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	11.48B	9.39	0.86	0.98	1.11%

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Shares

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.

In total, 75 stocks go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the next week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	181.61B	25.57	2.11	1.42	5.33%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.77B	11.44	1.98	1.65	4.63%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	134.94B	87.22	3.96	1.14	4.50%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan	POT	28.50B	12.76	2.76	3.55	4.25%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.80B	14.76	2.88	2.18	4.11%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	33.10B	12.02	1.67	1.86	3.70%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	74.37B	14.40	20.89	3.97	3.42%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	30.83B	18.03	4.52	1.70	3.17%
Aviva plc	AV	19.64B	-	1.27	0.35	2.62%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.65B	-	2.20	7.29	2.62%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.16B	-	2.57	0.96	2.61%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.99B	18.69	3.54	1.99	2.30%
Accenture plc	ACN	47.66B	15.29	8.96	1.58	2.21%
Covidien plc	COV	28.04B	16.80	2.90	2.63	2.12%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.47B	23.45	14.60	2.47	2.07%
Gap Inc.	GPS	18.96B	14.95	5.48	1.17	1.97%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.12B	20.27	2.85	2.66	1.69%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	52.37B	63.32	2.35	2.41	1.67%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.43B	20.22	2.07	1.47	1.64%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	17.30B	-	1.33	1.18	1.32%