Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 25, 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 25, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	429.61M	10.78	1.18	7.95	9.61%
Ambassadors Group Inc.	EPAX	79.64M	22.60	0.91	1.36	5.31%
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation	SIX	3.62B	41.90	4.13	3.40	5.30%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	16.96B	28.86	1.03	0.85	5.13%
Great Plains Energy	GXP	3.38B	16.93	0.99	1.46	3.95%
Sonoco Products Co.	SON	3.18B	17.75	2.09	0.67	3.80%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.75B	29.92	2.02	1.08	2.52%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.25B	13.85	2.45	1.54	1.97%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.62B	12.54	-	2.18	1.87%
Tower Financial Corporation	TOFC	60.27M	10.47	0.92	2.32	1.78%
Mesa Laboratories Inc.	MLAB	179.85M	21.90	3.58	4.12	1.05%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	686.78M	43.15	1.04	0.37	0.89%