Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 08, 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 January 08, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.16%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	200.11B	45.75	1.99	1.57	5.11%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	126.43B	41.40	3.36	1.11	4.65%
National Health Investors Inc.	NHI	1.64B	24.59	3.72	17.16	4.56%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.01B	13.24	3.21	0.73	4.30%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.09B	14.93	1.61	0.86	3.95%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.00B	-	1.97	8.37	3.67%
CH Energy Group Inc.	CHG	976.24M	24.83	1.87	1.06	3.40%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	27.01B	15.41	3.86	1.58	3.16%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	5.71B	16.24	2.06	1.54	2.89%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.77B	-	1.71	1.35	2.19%
Aetna Inc.	AET	15.21B	8.66	1.40	0.43	1.76%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	7.73B	19.52	0.51	0.69	1.71%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	139.90M	10.77	1.55	2.88	1.58%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.43B	25.71	6.71	4.36	1.09%
West Coast Bancorp	WCBO	441.55M	13.87	1.31	4.76	0.87%

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