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%
|