Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between January 07-14, 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks between January07-14, 2013. In total, 52 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 28 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.43%.

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
2.16B
7.69
0.89
11.19
13.71%
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
BBVA
52.15B
16.22
0.95
2.68
5.60%
AT&T, Inc.
T
200.11B
45.75
1.99
1.57
5.11%
Verizon Communications Inc.
VZ
126.43B
41.40
3.36
1.11
4.65%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
DRI
5.98B
13.24
3.21
0.73
4.30%
Mid-America Apartment Communities
MAA
2.78B
48.67
3.07
5.76
4.23%
Shaw Communications, Inc.
SJR
10.31B
14.28
2.73
2.06
4.22%
SAIC, Inc.
SAI
4.04B
23.18
1.65
0.37
4.06%
WGL Holdings Inc.
WGL
2.09B
14.93
1.61
0.86
3.95%
UDR, Inc.
UDR
6.00B
-
1.97
8.37
3.67%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
FCX
33.69B
11.52
1.83
1.91
3.52%
General Mills, Inc.
GIS
27.01B
15.41
3.86
1.58
3.16%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.
WDR
3.14B
17.48
5.54
2.74
3.05%
OGE Energy Corp.
OGE
5.71B
16.24
2.06
1.54
2.89%
Quest Diagnostics Inc.
DGX
9.22B
13.49
2.21
1.22
2.07%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
CHK
11.60B
-
0.76
1.01
2.01%
Yum! Brands, Inc.
YUM
30.87B
20.09
14.06
2.27
1.96%
Aetna Inc.
AET
15.21B
8.66
1.40
0.43
1.76%
Lincoln National Corp.
LNC
7.73B
19.52
0.51
0.69
1.71%
Abbott Laboratories
ABT
52.27B
8.05
1.94
1.33
1.69%
Via: Long Term Investments