The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Between October 15-21, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks between October15-21, 2012. In total, 52 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 25 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.42%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	2.91B	23.07	0.99	2.31	7.65%
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	3.24B	128.80	0.74	2.76	7.64%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	3.88B	21.36	1.48	7.12	6.91%
Targa Resources Partners LP	NGLS	3.90B	20.93	2.68	0.59	5.99%
Teekay Corporation	TK	2.14B	-	1.61	1.09	4.06%
Procter & Gamble Co.	PG	187.34B	21.85	2.94	2.24	3.31%
Vale S.A.	VALE	93.73B	5.93	1.17	1.74	3.23%
Targa Resources Corp.	TRGP	2.12B	65.82	15.11	0.32	3.15%
The Washington Post Company	WPO	2.67B	27.42	1.03	0.66	2.73%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	54.10B	9.26	3.40	0.82	2.51%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	51.16B	21.36	22.20	3.01	2.30%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	7.58B	16.02	2.63	0.93	2.08%
Graco Inc.	GGG	2.86B	21.12	7.33	3.03	1.90%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	4.57B	16.30	2.35	1.19	1.64%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	2.53B	9.34	2.41	1.01	1.42%
Carpenter Technology Corp.	CRS	2.80B	20.44	2.43	1.38	1.41%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	59.90B	16.64	1.58	0.51	1.38%
Core Laboratories NV	CLB	4.90B	24.19	22.26	5.12	1.08%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.39B	-	1.80	1.67	0.94%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.00B	11.41	4.35	1.26	0.85%