Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 05, 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 March 05, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.08%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TAL International Group, Inc.	TAL	1.46B	11.15	2.36	2.48	5.93%
National CineMedia, Inc.	NCMI	882.67M	41.22	-	1.97	5.77%
Weingarten Realty Investors	WRI	3.75B	128.46	2.38	7.44	3.96%
Harris Corp.	HRS	5.38B	9.72	2.94	1.01	3.10%
Destination Maternity	DEST	306.36M	14.43	2.85	0.57	3.09%
BlackRock, Inc.	BLK	40.15B	17.21	1.63	4.30	2.84%
Praxair Inc.	PX	33.62B	20.23	5.56	3.00	2.11%
Albany International Corp.	AIN	902.12M	-	1.83	1.19	1.95%
Bolt Technology Corp.	BOLT	134.30M	48.69	2.01	2.35	1.80%
Canadian National Railway	CNI	43.32B	16.97	4.02	4.48	1.66%
Lender Processing Services, Inc.	LPS	2.08B	26.03	3.83	1.04	1.63%
Omnicare Inc.	OCR	3.91B	24.44	1.11	0.63	1.50%
Baltic Trading Limited	BALT	85.84M	-	0.32	2.58	1.06%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	8.61B	21.49	1.25	0.50	0.34%