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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 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 day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 27, 2013. In total, 91 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 32 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.03%.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
TransAlta Corp.
4.07B
-
1.36
1.81
7.25%
Lorillard, Inc.
6.10B
14.52
-
0.92
5.39%
Lockheed Martin Corporation
28.44B
10.51
732.33
0.60
5.23%
Realty Income Corp.
O
7.94B
58.37
2.45
16.69
4.89%
Northeast Utilities
12.88B
21.48
1.37
2.05
3.58%
Brookfield Properties Corporation
8.39B
7.45
0.73
3.68
3.37%
NextEra Energy, Inc.
30.55B
15.73
1.90
2.14
3.32%
McDonald's Corp.
96.52B
17.94
6.95
3.50
3.20%
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
3.69B
15.59
1.53
5.85
3.20%
SLM Corporation
8.67B
9.73
1.68
1.42
3.20%
The Wendy's Company
2.13B
-
1.08
0.85
2.94%
L-3 Communications Holdings
7.08B
9.41
1.31
0.54
2.92%
Pepsico, Inc.
116.00B
19.18
5.21
1.77
2.86%
Compass Minerals International
2.49B
28.16
4.93
2.65
2.64%
GATX Corp.
2.30B
16.98
1.85
1.85
2.53%
Sealed Air Corporation
4.10B
-
2.41
0.53
2.47%
CH Robinson Worldwide Inc.
9.15B
15.47
6.08
0.81
2.47%
Weyerhaeuser Co.
15.66B
40.54
3.84
2.22
2.36%
Flowers Foods, Inc.
3.84B
3.99
4.48
1.26
2.30%
Associated Banc-Corp
2.38B
14.03
0.82
3.31
2.26%