Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 17, 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 ex-dividend date and payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on December 17, 2012. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.21%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation	NNA	92.34M	-	0.40	0.65	8.77%
Gladstone Investment Corporation	GAIN	181.52M	87.00	0.78	7.62	8.62%
Gladstone Commercial Corp.	GOOD	217.73M	1763.00	1.58	4.45	8.51%
UIL Holdings Corporation	UIL	1.84B	19.28	1.66	1.28	4.77%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	2.52B	30.72	1.74	1.29	4.12%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	6.49B	17.96	1.21	1.62	4.09%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	10.49B	15.35	1.42	1.21	4.07%
American Greetings Corp.	AM	543.69M	68.80	0.83	0.32	3.49%
SmartPros Ltd.	SPRO	7.13M	-	0.65	0.44	3.31%
FXCM Inc.	FXCM	339.90M	21.13	1.61	0.81	2.42%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	3.67B	18.49	7.24	1.44	2.17%
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.	AEO	4.10B	18.66	3.20	1.21	2.12%
International Game Technology	IGT	3.86B	16.69	3.23	1.80	1.93%
Brown Shoe Co. Inc.	BWS	796.47M	48.87	1.85	0.31	1.51%
Vail Resorts Inc.	MTN	1.91B	221.25	2.58	1.86	1.41%
Insteel Industries Inc.	IIIN	214.06M	120.80	1.43	0.59	0.99%
Culp Inc.	CFI	178.00M	10.73	1.87	0.66	0.82%
Xueda Education Group	XUE	183.69M	-	1.11	0.65	-