Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 22, 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 22, 2013. In total, 4 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.92%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	212.42B	19.81	-	3.16	3.18%
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.	MHP	12.75B	19.29	15.20	2.86	2.44%
Metals USA Holdings Corp.	MUSA	766.11M	12.22	2.47	0.38	1.16%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	2.18B	10.49	2.56	0.26	1.09%