Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 04, 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 February 04, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.27%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Atlas Resource Partners, L.P.	ARP	1.02B	-	1.22	3.65	8.21%
MarkWest Energy Partners LP	MWE	6.96B	120.04	3.04	4.92	5.87%
Delek Logistics Partners, LP	DKL	621.36M	53.94	5.17	0.65	5.79%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.	ACMP	6.07B	24.99	2.25	9.65	4.77%
Dime Community Bancshares Inc.	DCOM	491.77M	11.80	1.27	2.51	4.06%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	11.45B	29.25	7.79	6.52	3.83%
IdaCorp, Inc.	IDA	2.33B	14.41	1.32	2.19	3.28%
Atlas Energy, L.P	ATLS	1.97B	-	4.30	1.32	2.81%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	9.52B	20.73	3.38	4.34	2.41%
StellarOne Corporation	STEL	345.34M	17.38	0.80	2.96	2.14%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	40.74B	18.21	0.62	0.60	1.98%
Columbia Banking System Inc.	COLB	801.74M	17.26	1.05	3.23	1.78%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	9.76B	26.67	2.18	4.08	1.34%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	70.30B	12.76	2.16	3.43	0.54%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	66.12B	12.10	2.04	2.78	0.52%
Cash America International, Inc.	CSH	1.38B	14.09	1.43	0.77	0.29%
Winmark Corp.	WINA	322.75M	22.08	18.91	6.20	0.25%