Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 06, 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 can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on December 05, 2012. In total, 31 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 14 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.34%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.50B	17.07	1.01	0.87	5.50%
PPL Corporation	PPL	16.80B	10.38	1.50	1.26	4.97%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	4.84B	14.75	6.69	1.67	4.48%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	5.96B	14.70	1.47	1.46	4.33%
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated	LEG	3.93B	22.46	2.83	1.06	4.17%
CME Group Inc.	CME	18.22B	12.28	0.84	6.09	3.29%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	8.12B	11.68	0.83	0.90	3.04%
Occidental Petroleum Corporation	OXY	59.70B	10.12	1.48	2.48	2.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	3.83B	37.11	2.92	9.84	2.81%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	26.90B	10.08	1.04	1.05	2.61%
Becton, Dickinson and Company	BDX	15.16B	14.44	3.67	1.97	2.57%
Ensco plc	ESV	13.60B	11.50	1.16	3.22	2.56%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	17.21B	17.34	3.49	1.60	2.23%
Lancaster Colony Corporation	LANC	2.10B	20.75	3.61	1.83	1.97%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.17B	5.98	1.59	0.46	1.77%
Nike Inc.	NKE	44.01B	21.23	4.38	1.78	1.72%
Canadian National Railway	CNI	38.66B	14.73	3.39	3.93	1.69%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	8.44B	22.18	2.80	3.84	1.02%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	2.09B	14.17	0.40	0.48	0.87%
Nexen Inc.	NXY	12.91B	33.82	1.45	1.91	0.83%