Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 17, 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 17, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.56%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.08B	8.75	1.67	11.90	6.00%
PBF Energy Inc.	PBF	2.99B	387.25	1.74	0.15	3.87%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	12.82B	7.47	0.33	0.21	3.85%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.35B	60.69	3.80	4.65	3.75%
Bemis Company, Inc.	BMS	4.18B	23.77	2.56	0.82	2.56%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.40B	22.33	2.50	0.67	2.20%
Laporte Bancorp, Inc.	LPSB	60.73M	14.82	1.04	3.07	1.64%
Energizer Holdings Inc.	ENR	6.38B	16.21	2.83	1.40	1.56%
Thomas Properties Group Inc.	TPGI	258.82M	-	1.98	2.78	1.43%
ResMed Inc.	RMD	7.20B	23.84	4.10	4.89	1.35%
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.	APOG	787.47M	42.54	2.36	1.12	1.30%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	472.04M	-	1.34	0.56	0.60%

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%