Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 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 May 07, 2013. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.80%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Box Ships Inc.	TEU	116.06M	6.12	0.49	1.80	18.92%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.69B	10.90	1.33	1.21	4.67%
Computer Programs & Systems	CPSI	565.08M	18.09	9.60	3.00	4.00%
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.	SXL	6.28B	14.26	1.03	0.48	3.79%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	558.14M	12.78	1.03	3.60	3.19%
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	295.86M	44.94	0.97	3.76	2.97%
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV	PHG	27.05B	157.00	1.76	0.84	2.94%
Wynn Resorts Ltd.	WYNN	14.01B	28.86	-	2.72	2.88%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	44.40B	19.09	0.69	0.64	2.72%
Matson, Inc.	MATX	1.04B	20.18	3.72	0.67	2.46%
Sensient Technologies	SXT	1.94B	16.54	1.68	1.33	2.27%
Discover Financial Services	DFS	22.52B	10.03	2.20	3.33	1.74%
Fox Chase Bancorp, Inc.	FXCB	207.93M	34.61	1.16	5.10	1.42%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	46.32B	31.41	8.97	3.30	1.36%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.62B	26.15	6.41	7.97	1.21%
First Financial Holdings Inc.	FFCH	336.88M	11.85	1.11	2.10	0.98%
EverBank Financial Corp.	EVER	1.93B	18.98	1.31	2.75	0.51%
Embraer SA	ERJ	6.50B	18.38	1.99	1.05	0.23%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 12, 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 February 12, 2013. In total, 17 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Sandridge Mississippian Trust II	SDR	787.72M	13.31	1.76	12.70	15.09%
SandRidge Mississippian Trust I	SDT	505.12M	5.78	1.88	5.97	14.41%
United Online, Inc.	UNTD	586.82M	15.73	1.19	0.67	6.20%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	11.46B	13.54	1.25	1.11	5.15%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.23B	284.00	1.94	7.19	4.69%
Wisconsin Energy Corp.	WEC	9.22B	17.05	2.21	2.17	3.39%
S&T Bancorp Inc.	STBA	540.79M	15.55	1.01	3.46	3.30%
Wynn Resorts Ltd.	WYNN	12.76B	26.30	30.71	2.48	3.16%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.	BHLB	615.78M	16.37	0.93	3.50	2.91%
Somerset Hills Bancorp	SOMH	60.95M	18.02	1.46	4.62	2.82%
Matson, Inc.	MATX	1.12B	28.11	4.13	0.69	2.27%
Boston Private Financial Holdings	BPFH	740.94M	18.45	1.36	3.30	2.13%
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.	SPB	2.86B	59.74	2.86	0.88	1.82%
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.	MKTX	1.42B	23.91	5.85	7.15	1.37%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	7.92B	245.55	2.46	18.35	1.33%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	33.31B	19.36	9.62	1.34	1.01%
Lindsay Corporation	LNN	1.17B	21.30	3.60	2.02	0.50%

Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week 5/2012

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 31 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 23 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 24.69 percent. The biggest hike was announced by Blackstone Group (BX). The company raised dividends from $0.1 to $0.22, representing a growth of 120 percent. The highest yielding stock is Pitney Bowes (PBI) who offers a yield of 7.67 percent. The new dividend yield is now 7.8 percent.