Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between December 24-30, 2012

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 December 24-30, 2012. In total, 145 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.19%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Capital Agency Corp.	AGNC	10.64B	10.31	0.94	5.63	16.05%
Canadian Imperial Bank	CM	33.59B	10.42	1.97	2.74	4.57%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	26.98B	13.84	3.62	1.43	4.39%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	141.91B	16.99	-	1.85	4.00%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	13.27B	14.63	1.50	1.31	3.97%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	69.40B	11.08	1.73	3.99	3.94%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	33.47B	24.10	1.95	3.99	3.70%
BT Group plc	BT	30.52B	9.21	33.41	1.02	3.58%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.82B	27.54	1.81	0.70	3.38%
Raytheon Co.	RTN	19.54B	10.16	2.16	0.80	3.38%
Sempra Energy	SRE	17.40B	20.44	1.72	1.82	3.34%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	10.86B	17.32	1.40	1.34	3.16%
Dell Inc.	DELL	18.12B	7.10	1.78	0.31	3.07%
Air Products & Chemicals	APD	17.94B	18.12	2.77	1.87	3.04%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.33B	52.36	2.83	14.71	2.84%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	14.28B	13.22	2.30	0.13	2.62%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	11.17B	15.16	2.41	2.02	2.54%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	15.95B	53.93	3.12	8.67	2.46%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	61.07B	11.56	1.58	4.73	2.40%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	14.26B	14.44	2.30	3.53	2.36%