Daily Ex-Dividend Dates and Yields by Ex-Dividend Dates. Here is a current stock list of dividend shares with ex-dividend date on 04/04/2012. The average dividend-yield amounts to 2.97 percent.
The ex-dividend date is a major date related to the payment of dividends. If you purchase a stock on its ex-dividend date or later, you will not receive the next dividend payment. Instead, the seller gets the dividend. If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you get the dividend. It is important that your broker settles your trade before the ex-dividend date. 
Here is the table of stocks with Ex-Dividend Date on 2012-04-04:
|     Symbol  |        Company  |        Yield  |        Last  |        Dividend  |        Ex Date  |        Pay Date  |   
|     AM  |        American Greetings  |        3.83%  |        15.66  |        0.15  |         4/4  |         4/19  |   
|     BBT  |        BB&T  |        2.57%  |        31.08  |        0.20  |         4/4  |         5/1  |   
|     CPB  |        Campbell Soup Co.  |        3.51%  |        33.05  |        0.29  |         4/4  |         4/30  |   
|     EXP  |        Eagle Materials  |        1.13%  |        35.35  |        0.10  |         4/4  |         5/1  |   
|     LNC  |        Lincoln National Corp  |        1.18%  |        27.04  |        0.08  |         4/4  |         5/1  |   
|     MA  |        MasterCard  |        0.28%  |        430.66  |        0.30  |         4/4  |         5/9  |   
|     UDR  |        UDR Inc.    |        3.43%  |        25.64  |        0.22  |         4/4  |         4/30  |   
|     UDR-G  |        UDR Inc 6.75% Ser G Cum Red Pfd Stk  |        6.63%  |        25.47  |        0.42  |         4/4  |         4/30  |   
|     UVV  |        Universal Corp  |        4.20%  |        46.65  |        0.49  |         4/4  |         5/14  |   
|     |        |        |        |        |        |        |   
|     Average  |        |        2.97%  |        |        |        |        |   
Related Stock Ticker Symbols:
AM,BBT,CPB,EXP,LNC,MA,UDR,UDR.G,UVV
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