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