Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 18, 2012

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 December 18, 2012. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.07%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
BlackRock Kelso Capital Corporation	BKCC	733.13M	11.68	1.04	5.04	10.47%
Solar Capital Ltd.	SLRC	894.13M	5.87	1.02	6.05	10.39%
Ship Finance International Limited	SFL	1.38B	7.76	1.41	4.32	9.67%
Horizon Technology Finance	HRZN	136.99M	12.46	0.87	5.50	9.63%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	171.19M	9.85	0.97	9.54	7.82%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	915.29M	8.10	1.65	10.89	6.23%
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust	RPT	625.00M	-	1.19	5.00	5.14%
Evolving Systems Inc.	EVOL	69.18M	15.23	2.24	2.85	3.28%
Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc.	ATNI	560.36M	14.06	1.74	0.76	2.78%
American Water Works Company	AWK	6.62B	17.42	1.49	2.35	2.67%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO	3.86B	20.30	4.44	1.75	2.26%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	7.36B	17.93	3.00	1.97	2.20%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	38.18B	26.96	4.21	3.60	2.16%
Sypris Solutions Inc.	SYPR	79.87M	6.60	1.24	0.22	2.02%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO	4.90B	27.80	5.62	2.18	1.96%
Arcos Dorados Holdings	ARCO	2.62B	22.32	3.74	0.70	1.91%
Tower Financial Corporation	TOFC	59.15M	7.92	0.88	2.21	1.82%
CNH Global NV	CNH	11.93B	10.48	1.32	0.59	-
Embraer SA	ERJ	4.56B	33.77	1.40	0.72	-

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For March 16, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks March 16, 2012. In total, 25 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 14 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.84 percent.