Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 08, 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 08, 2013. In total, 5 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which none yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.15%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	245.47B	14.62	3.29	0.52	2.56%
Ingersoll-Rand Plc	IR	15.84B	16.24	2.21	1.13	1.57%
GAMCO Investors, Inc.	GBL	1.44B	18.97	4.37	4.19	0.37%
Virgin Media, Inc.	VMED	12.75B	3.55	2.66	2.07	0.34%
UniFirst Corp.	UNF	1.69B	16.94	1.82	1.33	0.18%