Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 26, 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 26, 2013. In total, 56 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 25 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.52%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.53B	8.08	1.04	5.19	11.75%
Atlantic Power Corporation	AT	3.64B	3.98	1.52	0.42	10.78%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	5.18B	18.40	4.00	4.87	6.16%
Integrys Energy Group, Inc.	TEG	4.43B	17.27	1.44	1.07	4.80%
Dominion Resources	D	32.40B	27.24	2.99	2.47	3.99%
Brookfield Office Properties CA	BOXC	2.67B	-	3.13	5.09	3.80%
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	BIP	5.63B	76.23	1.58	3.08	3.78%
Bank of Hawaii Corporation	BOH	2.20B	13.41	2.16	5.24	3.66%
Novartis AG	NVS	187.27B	17.79	2.42	3.25	3.58%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	25.53B	12.54	3.53	1.19	3.01%
Corning Inc.	GLW	18.57B	10.97	0.86	2.32	2.85%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	30.52B	-	1.40	2.10	2.62%
Newell Rubbermaid Inc.	NWL	6.75B	17.26	3.38	1.14	2.56%
CSX Corp.	CSX	23.34B	12.77	2.60	1.98	2.45%
NVIDIA Corporation	NVDA	7.82B	13.91	1.62	1.83	2.40%
Precision Drilling Corporation	PDS	2.34B	12.66	1.03	1.14	2.36%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	49.39B	17.15	1.65	1.72	2.17%
The Allstate Corporation	ALL	22.32B	10.01	1.09	0.67	2.14%
Crane Co.	CR	3.06B	16.04	3.30	1.19	2.08%
Union Pacific Corporation	UNP	63.83B	16.43	3.21	3.05	2.03%