Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 13, 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 February 13, 2013. In total, 80 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.44%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.18B	7.75	0.89	11.27	13.62%
Pitney Bowes Inc.	PBI	2.78B	6.41	25.18	0.57	10.83%
The GEO Group, Inc.	GEO	2.33B	26.96	1.91	1.43	6.13%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	216.66B	8.14	1.15	0.45	4.99%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	48.68B	21.95	1.19	2.81	4.43%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	2.67B	16.33	1.77	1.20	4.37%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.54B	14.07	2.69	2.10	4.32%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	8.94B	22.49	2.10	1.20	3.97%
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	59.19B	9.52	2.49	2.12	3.80%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	62.55B	14.73	3.76	2.77	3.64%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	44.62B	18.37	4.42	1.26	3.60%
Apartment Investment & Management	AIV	4.21B	-	4.58	4.07	3.32%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	226.33B	8.68	1.70	0.94	3.11%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	35.81B	40.44	3.52	1.52	2.86%
International Paper Co.	IP	18.52B	24.81	2.94	0.67	2.85%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	39.20B	18.60	2.13	0.55	2.65%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.07B	16.49	1.63	1.06	2.63%
Boeing Co.	BA	57.21B	14.85	9.78	0.70	2.56%
Aqua America Inc.	WTR	4.00B	26.48	3.05	5.39	2.45%
The J. M. Smucker Company	SJM	9.63B	20.64	1.87	1.65	2.34%