Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 12, 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 March 12, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.73%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
KKR Financial Holdings LLC	KFN	2.33B	5.95	1.10	4.19	7.39%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.02B	17.25	1.10	0.72	6.67%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	2.25B	26.40	1.95	11.19	5.32%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	9.23B	27.51	1.45	2.46	3.16%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.18B	26.56	4.95	4.57	3.05%
DDR Corp.	DDR	5.58B	-	1.67	6.97	3.05%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.36B	14.97	1.64	1.59	2.96%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.68B	-	1.72	1.15	2.78%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.91B	45.26	5.36	11.36	2.75%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.72B	18.43	1.22	1.82	2.25%
Wyndham Worldwide	WYN	8.68B	23.02	4.52	1.91	1.83%
The Home Depot, Inc.	HD	106.71B	23.79	6.01	1.43	1.63%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.31B	15.70	1.01	1.70	1.62%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.76B	23.49	4.34	1.57	1.57%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.83B	211.95	2.12	15.84	1.54%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	3.89B	-	0.79	1.50	1.46%
SPX Corporation	SPW	3.82B	26.43	1.80	0.77	1.23%
Ametek Inc.	AME	10.32B	22.56	4.07	3.10	0.57%
Gardner Denver Inc.	GDI	3.67B	14.13	2.53	1.56	0.27%