Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 13, 2012

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 ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on December 13, 2012. In total, 23 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.69%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TICC Capital Corp.	TICC	415.17M	6.02	1.02	6.49	11.54%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.55B	306.86	1.73	7.98	4.10%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	137.38B	20.54	2.47	2.87	3.81%
Western Union Co.	WU	7.89B	6.58	6.92	1.39	3.78%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	6.23B	24.90	4.39	4.08	3.48%
Gazit-Globe, Ltd.	GZT	1.98B	8.96	0.91	1.00	3.42%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	1.73B	13.06	0.62	0.79	3.10%
DDR Corp.	DDR	4.82B	-	1.45	6.13	3.08%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.48B	15.60	4.10	1.59	2.99%
ACE Limited	ACE	27.15B	10.17	1.01	1.53	2.45%
MTS Systems Corp.	MTSC	781.36M	15.51	3.44	1.44	2.41%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.83B	53.99	-	6.66	2.36%
Methanex Corp.	MEOH	2.96B	23.26	2.09	1.11	2.31%
Telephone & Data Systems	TDS	2.36B	21.14	0.60	0.44	2.17%
Globe Specialty Metals, Inc.	GSM	1.14B	41.11	2.28	1.56	1.64%
Home Bancshares	HOMB	928.15M	15.64	1.83	5.34	1.57%
DSW Inc.	DSW	2.93B	20.72	3.41	1.35	1.10%
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.	TMO	23.51B	20.79	1.54	1.90	0.92%
First Citizens Bancshares Inc.	FCNCA	1.64B	11.40	0.83	1.64	0.75%