Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 27, 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 27, 2012. In total, 88 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 50 yield more than 13 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	26.93B	13.81	3.61	1.43	4.40%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	33.46B	24.21	1.94	4.01	3.71%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.83B	27.55	1.81	0.70	3.38%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.32B	52.31	2.83	14.70	2.84%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	11.14B	15.13	2.40	2.01	2.54%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	15.99B	54.08	3.12	8.69	2.45%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	60.75B	11.50	1.57	4.71	2.41%
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.	HST	11.45B	790.00	1.66	2.20	2.28%
Deere & Company	DE	33.40B	11.28	4.93	0.92	2.14%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	14.70B	10.63	2.05	0.89	2.03%
Mondelez International, Inc.	MDLZ	45.62B	13.80	1.24	0.85	2.03%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	21.24B	14.98	2.54	2.49	1.90%
Yamana Gold, Inc.	AUY	12.65B	35.06	1.65	5.56	1.54%
Humana Inc.	HUM	10.78B	9.11	1.24	0.28	1.53%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	14.29B	12.56	2.74	2.08	0.97%