Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between December 31 – January 04, 2012

Enerplus - ERF 

Best Yielding Ex-Dividend Stock

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks between December 31 – January 04, 2012. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.05%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	2.48B	-	0.76	2.34	8.70%
Mack-Cali Realty Corp.	CLI	2.27B	36.58	1.25	3.18	6.93%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	52.66B	29.27	3.79	2.79	4.39%
The Toronto-Dominion Bank	TD	76.67B	12.26	1.59	3.42	3.69%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	18.46B	16.71	3.77	0.43	3.57%
Gentex Corp.	GNTX	2.66B	15.95	2.44	2.42	2.79%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	164.37B	9.18	0.82	2.86	2.78%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	20.18B	11.36	0.99	2.90	2.77%
Masco Corporation	MAS	5.73B	-	12.06	0.75	1.87%
Monsanto Co.	MON	49.79B	24.69	4.20	3.69	1.61%
Discover Financial Services	DFS	19.18B	8.56	1.94	2.86	1.47%
American Express Company	AXP	63.42B	13.12	3.26	1.90	1.41%
Torchmark Corp.	TMK	4.84B	10.03	1.12	1.38	1.18%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.36B	19.40	2.64	2.08	1.15%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	5.09B	48.80	2.53	18.41	1.01%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	62.08B	11.36	1.91	2.61	0.67%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	65.71B	12.18	2.02	3.28	0.62%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	74.19B	11.19	2.00	2.54	0.55%
BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.	BRFS	18.01B	98.29	2.58	1.36	N/A