Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 21, 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 21, 2013. In total, 8 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 4 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.60%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
CYS Investments Inc	CYS	2.10B	4.36	0.87	7.15	13.34%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	2.83B	30.89	1.93	1.44	3.73%
Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Inc.	PNY	2.51B	18.59	2.20	2.15	3.73%
Portland General Electric	POR	2.25B	15.89	1.30	1.24	3.63%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	13.54B	14.35	2.10	3.19	2.49%
Kimball International, Inc.	KBALB	272.76M	19.89	0.88	0.24	2.19%
Novo Nordisk A/S	NVO	75.57B	24.49	12.79	5.52	1.39%
Vail Resorts Inc.	MTN	2.20B	255.38	2.76	2.15	1.35%