Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 138 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 52 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.10%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Total SA	TOT	121.70B	8.45	1.23	0.52	5.33%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	68.86B	16.63	21.96	2.80	5.14%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	35.64B	13.97	2.64	1.83	4.92%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.71B	14.61	2.81	2.19	4.13%
Encana Corporation	ECA	14.32B	-	2.71	2.78	4.11%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	131.96B	20.12	2.49	2.79	3.94%
Rogers Communications Inc.	RCI	25.15B	15.11	6.86	2.07	3.46%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	24.10B	25.13	2.53	1.47	2.94%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	175.19B	19.95	5.36	3.65	2.85%
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	104.46B	18.42	9.38	4.61	2.50%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	11.11B	6.51	1.83	0.55	2.20%
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	11.32B	21.13	1.69	1.95	2.08%
Macy's, Inc.	M	16.49B	12.72	2.67	0.60	1.92%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	22.36B	15.11	1.42	1.64	1.91%
Viacom, Inc.	VIAB	30.61B	14.59	4.29	2.31	1.78%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.	MSI	17.27B	20.85	5.38	1.98	1.66%
Eastman Chemical Co.	EMN	11.21B	23.94	3.71	1.38	1.65%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	13.62B	13.01	5.81	0.88	1.57%
Unitedhealth Group, Inc.	UNH	55.56B	10.27	1.77	0.50	1.57%
Devon Energy Corporation	DVN	22.72B	-	1.07	2.39	1.43%