The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 09, 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 09, 2012. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.95%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III	HPS	635.90M	-	-	-	7.26%
RAIT Financial Trust	RAS	266.02M	-	0.32	1.17	6.75%
Ingles Markets	IMKTA	394.71M	9.68	0.88	0.11	4.06%
Waddell & Reed Financial	WDR	2.75B	16.29	4.82	2.29	3.12%
Sovran Self Storage	SSS	1.72B	47.46	2.57	7.58	3.08%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	18.92B	18.30	3.02	1.60	2.65%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	7.78B	13.61	11.12	4.33	2.25%
Covidien	COV	29.02B	15.54	2.70	2.43	1.72%
Aetna	AET	13.92B	8.22	1.36	0.40	1.68%
Patterson Companies	PDCO	3.90B	18.06	2.86	1.09	1.58%
HB Fuller	FUL	1.54B	22.30	2.18	0.85	1.10%
Franco-Nevada	FNV	8.82B	357.94	2.87	20.07	0.99%