The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 18, 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 day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 18, 2012. In total, 18 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.76%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Gladstone Commercial Corp.	GOOD	232.06M	234.88	1.63	4.92	7.98%
Gladstone Investment Corporation	GAIN	166.70M	11.27	0.83	7.62	7.95%
Costamare Inc.	CMRE	922.08M	9.51	2.15	2.32	7.94%
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	3.00B	23.79	1.02	2.38	7.75%
Government Properties Income Trust	GOV	1.08B	20.54	1.23	5.46	7.48%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	3.95B	21.73	1.51	7.25	6.97%
Select Income REIT	SIR	772.20M	11.57	1.08	7.07	6.79%
CommonWealth REIT	CWH	1.24B	42.14	0.36	1.25	6.78%
The Washington Post Company	WPO	2.69B	27.59	1.04	0.66	2.71%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	55.50B	9.50	3.49	0.84	2.45%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	7.72B	16.32	2.68	0.95	2.04%
Graco Inc.	GGG	2.94B	21.67	7.51	3.11	1.85%
Epoch Investment Partners, Inc.	EPHC	514.78M	20.70	7.76	5.57	1.84%
AAR Corp.	AIR	660.21M	9.72	0.75	0.31	1.81%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	59.67B	16.57	1.57	0.51	1.39%
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana	HFBL	50.18M	17.73	1.02	3.94	1.35%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	8.57B	17.33	4.46	2.91	0.78%
Apache Corp.	APA	34.07B	10.43	1.11	1.99	0.78%