Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between January 21 - 27, 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 January 21 - 27, 2013. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.48%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
R.R. Donnelley & Sons	RRD	1.71B	-	1.52	0.17	10.94%
Compass Diversified Holdings	CODI	762.66M	-	1.75	0.86	9.12%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	178.13M	10.25	1.01	9.92	7.52%
Government Properties Income	GOV	1.38B	23.83	1.37	6.68	6.81%
Franklin Street Properties	FSP	1.08B	48.15	1.23	6.85	5.85%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	8.56B	34.95	1.97	3.19	5.59%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares	NHTB	75.52M	10.85	0.67	2.08	4.06%
Royal Bank of Canada	RY	90.07B	12.37	2.00	4.25	3.88%
Siemens AG	SI	97.76B	14.56	2.37	0.94	3.50%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	2.63B	25.47	2.84	0.79	3.26%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	51.51B	21.37	20.57	3.03	2.28%
Williams-Sonoma Inc.	WSM	4.37B	18.65	3.59	1.12	1.97%
Tyco International Ltd.	TYC	14.61B	-	2.90	1.40	1.91%
Progressive Corp.	PGR	13.74B	15.25	2.10	0.84	1.79%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	64.97B	17.49	1.76	0.54	1.73%
Epoch Investment Partners	EPHC	663.51M	23.55	8.54	6.57	1.43%
Signet Jewelers Limited	SIG	4.96B	15.21	2.31	1.30	0.78%
The Cooper Companies Inc.	COO	4.72B	19.24	2.15	3.27	0.06%