The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 11, 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 11, 2012. In total, 38 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 19 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.44%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.27B	28.00	1.05	27.09	14.29%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	9.17B	12.08	2.42	1.81	4.58%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	3.86B	-	1.64	0.35	4.25%
Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc.	MAA	2.62B	49.84	3.11	5.47	4.14%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	2.68B	27.52	2.95	0.84	3.20%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.	FCX	38.61B	12.25	2.33	2.09	3.07%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	111.27B	22.94	4.54	2.82	2.88%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.10B	-	2.26	6.57	2.28%
Phillips 66	PSX	28.89B	6.00	1.53	0.15	2.17%
Jefferies Group, Inc.	JEF	2.88B	12.55	0.95	0.78	2.12%
American Financial Group Inc.	AFG	3.57B	9.06	0.78	0.73	2.05%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.	POT	35.79B	14.46	4.08	4.30	2.02%
IDEX Corporation	IEX	3.38B	16.80	2.14	1.74	1.98%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.14B	13.65	5.17	1.96	1.79%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.04B	6.44	0.74	1.04	1.79%
Service Corp. International	SCI	2.91B	18.52	2.14	1.23	1.78%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	2.51B	12.28	1.31	0.68	1.38%
Investors Bancorp Inc.	ISBC	2.07B	23.73	2.02	4.27	1.08%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.97B	13.85	2.19	1.88	0.43%