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%

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	-