Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 29, 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 January 29, 2013. In total, 44 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 35 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.38B	6.49	1.05	6.11	11.62%
Atlantic Power Corporation	AT	4.35B	4.75	1.82	0.50	9.11%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.21B	27.62	1.16	2.53	7.24%
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc.	OHI	2.92B	25.83	2.86	8.81	6.90%
Copano Energy LLC	CPNO	2.64B	-	2.81	1.92	6.88%
El Paso Pipeline Partners	EPB	8.83B	19.04	4.45	5.83	5.96%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners	KMP	32.48B	53.94	2.87	3.76	5.80%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	5.55B	19.38	4.18	5.14	5.80%
National Retail Properties	NNN	3.53B	32.12	1.54	11.06	4.92%
ONEOK Partners, L.P.	OKS	13.14B	16.43	2.94	1.26	4.75%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	50.08B	19.52	3.89	1.16	4.74%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.08B	16.30	1.53	1.58	4.10%
Kinder Morgan, Inc.	KMI	38.62B	40.93	2.89	3.87	3.97%
Brookfield Office Properties CA	BOXC	2.73B	-	3.35	5.40	3.72%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	13.42B	19.96	2.84	0.97	3.09%
ONEOK Inc.	OKE	9.70B	28.74	4.70	0.74	3.04%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	36.76B	21.72	3.32	2.87	2.56%
Eldorado Gold Corp.	EGO	8.18B	26.05	1.41	7.43	1.22%
AO Smith Corp.	AOS	3.23B	20.00	2.71	1.67	1.14%