Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 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.

In total, 39 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.69%. 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
AG Mortgage Investment Trust	MITT	492.05M	11.31	0.88	3.38	18.25%
BlackRock Kelso Capital	BKCC	733.55M	13.38	1.06	5.03	10.51%
Harvest Capital Credit	HCAP	64.96M	3.95	0.72	10.65	8.82%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	210.59M	21.02	1.01	10.43	7.71%
Retail Properties of America, Inc.	RPAI	3.30B	707.00	1.38	5.94	4.67%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	13.76B	13.96	1.48	1.29	4.05%
EastGroup Properties Inc.	EGP	1.76B	58.65	3.59	9.21	3.68%
SmartPros Ltd.	SPRO	9.46M	-	1.00	0.58	2.97%
Safeway Inc.	SWY	6.73B	14.54	2.12	0.16	2.84%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	21.47B	-	1.03	4.40	2.27%
Avago Technologies Limited	AVGO	9.67B	18.13	3.55	4.03	2.15%
Altisource Residential	RESI	385.95M	166.00	0.93	37.11	2.01%
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc.	SLCA	1.33B	17.05	4.97	2.73	1.99%
International Game Technology	IGT	5.30B	18.14	4.11	2.26	1.97%
Total System Services, Inc.	TSS	5.45B	23.29	3.59	2.88	1.37%
Synovus Financial Corp.	SNV	2.78B	3.85	1.07	2.93	1.22%
Cognex Corporation	CGNX	2.68B	40.83	4.36	8.14	0.71%
Alliance Fiber Optic Products	AFOP	327.04M	24.75	4.86	5.87	0.67%

13 High Yield Stocks At New 52-Week Highs

High Dividend Yield Stocks Close To New Highs By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of high yield stocks (yield over 5 percent) that have marked a new 52-Week High within the recent days. Despite the turmoil’s at the markets, there are 46 companies at one-year highs and 13 of them pay very high dividends. I screened the best performing stocks and analyzed all with a yield over 5 percent. Thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which eleven have a buy or better recommendation. The highest yielding stock from the results is ARMOUR Residential (ARR) with a yield over 16 percent. The company is followed by Two Harbors Investment (TWO) who has a yield of 14.16 percent.