Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 16, 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 January 16, 2013. In total, 13 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.58%.
Here is the sheet of the best yielding ex-dividend stocks:
Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Horizon Technology Finance
HRZN
144.36M
13.13
0.92
5.80
9.14%
Main Street Capital Corporation
MAIN
1.01B
8.96
1.83
12.06
5.63%
Friedman Industries Inc.
FRD
74.80M
9.65
1.14
0.49
4.73%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
CBRL
1.54B
14.95
3.82
0.59
3.08%
Commercial Metals Company
CMC
1.83B
13.76
1.40
0.24
3.06%
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad
EOC
13.62B
19.09
2.58
2.72
2.99%
Enersis S.A.
ENI
12.21B
17.81
1.51
0.87
2.94%
Foot Locker, Inc.
FL
5.01B
13.69
2.19
0.84
2.16%
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.
OZRK
1.20B
16.27
2.50
5.99
1.74%
West Pharmaceutical Services
WST
1.88B
24.69
2.62
1.51
1.38%
Oxford Industries Inc.
OXM
826.01M
24.92
3.64
1.01
1.20%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
WFM
16.54B
35.38
4.35
1.41
0.90%
PerkinElmer Inc.
PKI
3.93B
-
2.02
1.88
0.82%