Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 06, 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 June 06, 2013. In total, 35 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.97%.

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	5.16B	-	1.21	1.11	5.21%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.75B	18.17	5.23	3.24	5.15%
PPL Corporation	PPL	17.31B	12.75	1.65	1.63	4.95%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	7.00B	15.07	1.57	1.60	4.03%
TELUS Corporation	TU	11.29B	8.88	1.41	1.05	3.81%
Ensco plc	ESV	14.11B	11.22	1.17	3.19	3.30%
Occidental Petroleum Corp.	OXY	75.94B	17.23	1.86	3.18	2.72%
CME Group Inc.	CME	23.10B	26.60	1.07	8.08	2.60%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	31.55B	12.72	1.23	1.23	2.39%
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.	BAH	2.43B	12.30	11.50	0.42	2.24%
First American Financial Corp.	FAF	2.51B	8.28	1.05	0.53	2.07%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	23.26B	9.12	0.96	0.36	1.94%
Lancaster Colony Corporation	LANC	2.27B	20.74	4.71	1.94	1.92%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.44B	18.28	4.01	1.87	1.86%
CBS Corporation	CBS	30.13B	18.46	3.21	2.12	0.98%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	2.74B	17.61	0.55	0.63	0.97%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.15B	16.45	2.11	1.97	0.94%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.99B	29.58	3.77	5.34	0.79%

41 Stocks And Funds Hiked Dividends Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week, additional 41 stocks and funds announced to raise dividends. The average dividend growth amounts to 34.59 percent. On the list are some big Players from the financial sector like JP Morgan Chase or W.R. Berkley. Also the tech giant Hewlett-Packard raised its dividend by 10 percent despite the operational problems. Twelve companies announced to pay a first dividend ever and ten stocks reduced its payments last week.

The good thing is that dividend growth is definitely stronger established than dividend cuts.