Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 20, 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 20, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.79%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Park National Corp.	PRK	1.10B	16.73	1.69	3.98	5.25%
Eni SpA	E	88.27B	30.75	1.10	0.54	4.61%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.75B	19.55	1.72	0.82	4.43%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	3.26B	64.97	2.77	6.16	4.29%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	5.28B	-	3.69	10.63	3.21%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	9.11B	21.14	3.49	3.74	3.07%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.33B	8.58	1.63	1.00	2.58%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.48B	14.78	1.97	0.91	2.56%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	3.08B	28.28	1.24	0.63	2.52%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.84B	28.60	2.09	1.12	2.41%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	21.60B	6.97	1.21	0.16	2.02%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.64B	46.08	0.93	4.77	1.67%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.31B	19.35	2.60	1.42	1.64%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.53B	15.18	2.18	2.34	1.20%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	788.30M	7.47	1.44	1.36	0.94%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.83B	34.34	4.58	2.78	0.90%
Gerdau S.A.	GGB	11.47B	16.27	0.84	0.61	0.60%

41 Top Yielding Stocks With Ex-Dividend Date In May 2013

Monthly high yielding shares researched by “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Yields come down; the decay is full in process because of the growing stock prices. Dividend investors like me are seeking for higher yields at the market but the results getting rare.

My solution is to scout for lower yielding stocks with hope that the next dividend hike could lift the current yield above the 3 percent level. But it’s more work to predict dividends and your risk increases when you have missed some details.

I always have a big picture of stocks that go ex-dividend in the near future in order to get quick cash back from my investments. Sure it’s not a trading strategy because after the ex-dividend date, the stock is also traded lower in the amount of the dividend but it is a great information tool.

However, I screen every month some interesting high yielding stocks with ex-dividend date within the next month. As result, I found 41 stocks with an average dividend yield of 4.98 percent. Three stocks have a double-digit yield and ten a high yield. 18 stocks from the results have a buy or better recommendation.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 20, 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 20, 2013. In total, 20 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Park National Corp.	PRK	1.05B	13.94	1.61	3.67	5.53%
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	111.86B	16.23	12.43	2.73	5.09%
Avista Corp.	AVA	1.58B	18.02	1.26	1.00	4.38%
Diebold, Incorporated	DBD	1.89B	23.41	2.34	0.63	3.84%
Macerich Co.	MAC	9.09B	32.73	2.85	10.32	3.77%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	14.02B	18.48	4.57	2.18	3.53%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	2.71B	25.02	5.27	0.96	2.95%
Healthcare Services Group	HCSG	1.63B	38.73	7.10	1.55	2.79%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	12.71B	18.91	-	1.26	2.72%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.61B	22.11	1.20	1.86	2.71%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.97B	23.16	1.25	1.95	2.59%
AVX Corp.	AVX	2.01B	-	1.01	1.42	2.52%
Evercore Partners Inc.	EVR	1.18B	8.37	2.85	1.79	2.19%
Heartland Financial USA Inc.	HTLF	396.01M	8.59	0.99	2.09	1.70%
PPG Industries Inc.	PPG	19.87B	23.04	5.54	1.31	1.69%
Laporte Bancorp, Inc.	LPSB	61.48M	15.00	1.06	3.11	1.62%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	6.60B	28.44	3.44	3.05	1.60%
Ross Stores Inc.	ROST	13.32B	18.10	7.85	1.42	1.14%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	503.32M	-	1.57	0.60	0.56%
Minerals Technologies Inc.	MTX	1.48B	19.98	1.87	1.47	0.48%