Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares Between February 25 - March 03, 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 25 – March 03, 2013. In total, 184 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 69 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.05%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	28.51B	10.54	734.33	0.60	5.22%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	17.17B	29.21	1.04	0.86	5.06%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	32.40B	27.24	2.99	2.47	3.99%
Novartis AG	NVS	187.27B	17.79	2.42	3.25	3.58%
Northeast Utilities	NU	13.01B	20.72	1.39	2.30	3.55%
NextEra Energy, Inc.	NEE	30.79B	15.85	1.92	2.16	3.30%
McDonald's Corp.	MCD	95.63B	17.77	6.89	3.47	3.23%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	26.07B	12.54	3.53	1.22	3.01%
Corning Inc.	GLW	18.57B	10.97	0.86	2.32	2.85%
Pepsico, Inc.	PEP	116.90B	19.28	5.24	1.78	2.85%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	30.52B	9.10	1.21	2.16	2.62%
CSX Corp.	CSX	23.58B	12.77	2.62	2.01	2.45%
Weyerhaeuser Co.	WY	16.12B	41.86	3.96	2.28	2.29%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	49.39B	17.15	1.65	1.72	2.17%
The Allstate Corporation	ALL	22.39B	10.01	1.09	0.67	2.14%
Omnicom Group Inc.	OMC	15.11B	15.84	-	1.06	2.10%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	17.23B	14.59	2.12	1.30	2.05%
Union Pacific Corporation	UNP	63.83B	16.43	3.21	3.05	2.03%
Diageo plc	DEO	75.84B	19.35	7.65	4.43	1.90%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	47.65B	17.77	1.22	1.24	1.66%