Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 24, 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 24, 2012. In total, 10 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.87%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Capital Agency Corp.	AGNC	10.82B	10.49	0.96	5.72	15.79%
American Capital Mortgage Investment	MTGE	917.38M	2.90	1.00	8.50	14.23%
One Liberty Properties Inc.	OLP	308.01M	23.59	1.26	6.65	6.82%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	142.83B	17.10	-	1.87	3.98%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	13.39B	14.76	1.51	1.32	3.93%
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation	CY	1.62B	63.06	6.84	1.95	3.88%
Getty Realty Corp.	GTY	591.18M	-	1.59	5.25	2.82%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	14.12B	14.29	2.28	3.49	2.38%
Tellabs Inc.	TLAB	1.26B	-	0.85	1.12	2.33%
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.	ZMH	11.94B	16.07	2.05	2.68	1.05%