Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 24, 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, 17 stocks go ex dividend - of which 5 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
Value Line	VALU	90.33M	14.31	2.76	2.52	6.55%
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior	BLX	1.02B	13.21	1.21	5.30	4.50%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	37.20B	114.91	3.38	2.84	3.50%
The Blackstone Group	BX	16.66B	26.66	3.01	3.25	3.22%
Rockville Financial Inc.	RCKB	343.83M	21.41	1.16	4.43	3.06%
OceanFirst Financial Corp.	OCFC	307.72M	16.97	1.42	3.71	2.67%
Pacific Continental Corp.	PCBK	249.85M	19.42	1.40	4.38	2.58%
A. Schulman, Inc.	SHLM	943.10M	21.03	1.81	0.44	2.42%
Dell	DELL	24.33B	18.22	2.25	0.43	2.31%
The Bank of New York Mellon	BK	36.29B	17.26	1.03	10.84	1.90%
Unum Group	UNM	8.42B	9.63	1.00	0.80	1.83%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	GS	73.80B	9.67	1.04	1.77	1.26%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	2.05B	28.04	2.10	1.76	1.15%
CoBiz Financial Inc	COBZ	436.52M	17.85	1.64	4.16	1.08%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	17.30B	19.04	3.61	2.53	0.94%
Citigroup, Inc.	C	154.02B	4.35	0.79	1.76	0.08%