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