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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 25, 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 25, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.78%.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Medley Capital Corporation
429.61M
10.78
1.18
7.95
9.61%
Ambassadors Group Inc.
79.64M
22.60
0.91
1.36
5.31%
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation
3.62B
41.90
4.13
3.40
5.30%
Sun Life Financial Inc.
16.96B
28.86
1.03
0.85
5.13%
Great Plains Energy
3.38B
16.93
0.99
1.46
3.95%
Sonoco Products Co.
3.18B
17.75
2.09
0.67
3.80%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.
1.75B
29.92
2.02
1.08
2.52%
Steris Corp.
2.25B
13.85
2.45
1.54
1.97%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.
3.62B
12.54
-
2.18
1.87%
Tower Financial Corporation
60.27M
10.47
0.92
2.32
1.78%
Mesa Laboratories Inc.
179.85M
21.90
3.58
4.12
1.05%
Griffon Corporation
686.78M
43.15
1.04
0.37
0.89%