The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 05, 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 05, 2012. In total, 21 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.74%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Verizon Communications	VZ	131.85B	46.28	3.55	1.17	4.45%
WGL Holdings	WGL	2.05B	20.19	1.57	0.84	4.02%
UDR	UDR	6.12B	-	1.97	8.46	3.60%
Darden Restaurants	DRI	7.18B	15.21	3.86	0.89	3.59%
Covanta Holding Corporation	CVA	2.26B	27.82	2.28	1.36	3.54%
General Mills	GIS	25.92B	15.69	3.90	1.54	3.29%
OGE Energy	OGE	5.51B	16.01	2.11	1.45	2.81%
Gap	GPS	17.67B	20.53	6.07	1.18	1.36%
Lincoln National	LNC	6.89B	38.94	0.49	0.64	1.33%
Vail Resorts	MTN	2.04B	146.67	2.54	1.99	1.31%
Intuit	INTU	18.04B	24.62	6.57	4.35	1.11%
Mastercard	MA	59.13B	28.32	9.44	8.30	0.25%