Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 61 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 26 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.70%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.39B	8.08	0.88	6.48	13.17%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.35B	13.80	2.60	2.06	4.34%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	18.24B	17.40	1.53	1.48	3.95%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	3.03B	19.15	1.95	1.30	3.86%
ALLETE, Inc.	ALE	2.06B	20.12	1.70	2.15	3.68%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	30.55B	31.88	1.43	1.23	3.47%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	50.35B	21.88	4.11	1.46	3.29%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	10.09B	21.67	3.41	4.65	2.59%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	39.08B	61.68	3.71	1.56	2.59%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.37B	18.02	1.80	1.23	2.58%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.95B	-	1.22	1.63	2.34%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.78B	15.41	2.72	0.61	2.06%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.	IACI	4.35B	26.89	2.50	1.55	1.95%
TIM Participacoes S.A.	TSU	9.91B	13.75	1.44	1.06	1.85%
The Kroger Co.	KR	18.09B	12.54	4.25	0.19	1.73%
Teleflex Incorporated	TFX	3.26B	25.66	1.93	2.06	1.72%
Jabil Circuit Inc.	JBL	3.92B	10.69	1.80	0.22	1.65%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	14.41B	14.63	6.01	0.93	1.48%
TCF Financial Corporation	TCB	2.46B	26.82	1.31	2.82	1.33%
Pool Corp.	POOL	2.40B	30.46	8.37	1.22	1.24%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 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 March 07, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.04%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.77B	16.77	1.07	0.94	5.19%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.48B	15.78	1.60	1.55	4.63%
UIL Holdings Corporation	UIL	2.01B	19.64	1.81	1.35	4.36%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	935.75M	14.75	1.51	0.92	4.10%
TELUS Corporation	TU	22.68B	17.84	2.83	2.10	3.58%
SY Bancorp Inc.	SYBT	316.68M	12.30	1.57	3.64	3.52%
Kaydon Corporation	KDN	787.88M	614.00	2.36	1.67	3.26%
South Jersey Industries, Inc.	SJI	1.77B	16.22	2.49	2.50	3.17%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	9.51B	12.61	0.98	1.03	2.84%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	12.55B	29.23	1.98	1.23	2.50%
MTS Systems Corp.	MTSC	852.50M	17.49	3.56	1.55	2.21%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	12.61B	93.92	1.26	1.72	2.21%
Interpublic Group	IPG	5.36B	15.22	2.23	0.77	1.85%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	59.79M	96.50	1.60	2.90	1.55%
CBS Corporation	CBS	28.24B	18.10	2.77	2.00	1.07%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.	JJSF	1.34B	22.85	2.77	1.57	0.90%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.64B	30.80	3.76	5.20	0.81%
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	8.92B	30.51	3.91	2.21	0.79%
FedEx Corporation	FDX	33.93B	17.32	2.20	0.78	0.52%