Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 23, 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, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 9 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 ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.37B	23.17	1.34	6.07	6.87%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	4.19B	37.01	1.59	2.95	6.40%
Franklin Street Properties Corp.	FSP	1.21B	54.88	1.12	6.80	5.77%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	10.13B	32.02	2.12	2.21	4.93%
Union Bankshares Inc.	UNB	96.54M	12.52	2.11	3.91	4.62%
Ohio Valley Banc Corp.	OVBC	81.65M	10.35	1.05	2.21	4.16%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.94B	60.51	0.97	2.74	4.03%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	205.85B	13.43	1.18	3.89	3.60%
First Busey Corporation	BUSE	455.33M	22.83	1.35	4.06	3.05%
Safe Bulkers, Inc.	SB	560.52M	6.04	1.13	3.13	2.74%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.15B	19.60	4.22	1.22	2.33%
Lakeland Financial Corp.	LKFN	570.93M	15.73	1.86	5.28	2.19%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.58B	32.53	8.34	4.46	2.04%
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation	KALU	1.23B	14.02	1.14	0.94	1.82%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.60B	-	3.53	1.56	1.79%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	2.03B	27.76	2.08	1.74	1.17%
HEICO Corp.	HEI	3.62B	37.92	6.27	3.76	0.21%
SM Energy Company	SM	5.77B	-	3.78	3.09	0.11%

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding 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 day.

In total, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 18 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 stock:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Teekay LNG Partners LP.	TGP	2.96B	18.05	2.39	7.57	6.37%
Teekay Offshore Partners LP	TOO	2.75B	19.31	3.46	3.13	6.32%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	4.21B	37.23	1.60	2.97	6.23%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	10.15B	32.08	2.12	2.21	4.98%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	2.96B	60.93	0.97	2.76	4.00%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	97.53B	12.97	2.34	4.81	3.82%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.44B	13.34	1.17	3.87	3.62%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	5.14B	19.56	4.21	1.22	2.34%
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical	SHI	2.81B	177.64	1.04	0.18	2.10%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.60B	32.58	8.35	4.47	2.03%
Unum Group	UNM	8.48B	9.70	1.01	0.81	1.82%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	16.65B	-	3.54	1.57	1.78%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.16B	22.26	2.51	1.38	1.69%
Pentair, Inc.	PNR	13.19B	-	2.26	2.08	1.53%
Lowe's Companies Inc.	LOW	50.85B	24.07	3.89	0.98	1.51%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.23B	18.30	4.24	1.26	0.95%
West Pharmaceutical Services	WST	3.17B	32.88	4.04	2.42	0.88%
SM Energy Company	SM	5.78B	-	3.78	3.09	0.11%

Next Week's 20 Top 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 day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 19 - 25, 2013. In total, 95 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.93%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.88B	16.87	9.55	4.29	5.40%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.92B	10.26	1.08	1.82	4.77%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.96B	13.37	1.18	3.87	3.61%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	251.10B	19.86	3.61	3.59	2.95%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	10.16B	15.87	32.96	5.54	2.84%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.39B	19.19	1.76	3.28	2.81%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.30B	18.92	1.22	1.85	2.74%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.64B	19.81	1.27	1.93	2.62%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.73	2.49	2.56%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.04B	16.10	2.67	0.60	2.51%
Marathon Petroleum	MPC	22.54B	7.11	1.88	0.25	2.40%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.16B	8.41	2.06	1.11	2.31%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.29B	24.75	3.33	2.63	2.29%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.43	1.28	1.48	2.22%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.70B	20.36	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.31B	29.74	19.15	3.12	2.04%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.07B	22.72	-	1.61	2.03%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%