The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 17, 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 17, 2012. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.99%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd.	PFLT	-	-	-	-	7.66%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	924.08M	8.69	1.73	11.83	6.15%
Friedman Industries Inc.	FRD	73.58M	8.73	1.14	0.45	4.81%
Comtech Telecommunications Corp.	CMTL	464.82M	19.11	1.08	1.09	4.11%
Procter & Gamble Co.	PG	189.46B	22.09	2.98	2.26	3.27%
Vale S.A.	VALE	94.61B	5.98	1.18	1.76	3.20%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.	CBRL	1.58B	15.19	4.10	0.61	2.99%
Resource America, Inc.	REXI	128.65M	5.38	0.85	1.87	1.89%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	2.56B	9.43	2.43	1.02	1.41%
Core Laboratories NV	CLB	4.87B	24.05	22.14	5.09	1.09%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.40B	-	1.81	1.68	0.94%