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 January 07-14, 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%