There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following: AT&T, Darden Restaurants, General Mills, Verizon, The Gap, Accenture, General Growth Properties and Hormel Foods.

Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. Any stock ranked by our team as a Top 100 Dividend Stock is tagged.

Company Name Stock Symbol Ex-Div Date Pay Date Div Payout Stock Price Yield Market Value  AT&T T 4/9/2018 5/1/2018 0.5 $35.37 5.65% 231.43 Darden Restaurants DRI 4/9/2018 5/1/2018 0.63 $84.56 2.98% 10.75 Dollar General DG 4/9/2018 4/24/2018 0.29 $93.31 1.24% 25.79 General Mills GIS 4/9/2018 5/1/2018 0.49 $44.30 4.42% 26.96 Intuit Inc. INTU 4/9/2018 4/18/2018 0.39 $170.47 0.92% 42.94 Lincoln National Corp LNC 4/9/2018 5/1/2018 0.33 $70.80 1.86% 15.09 Marsh & McLennan Corporation MMC 4/9/2018 5/15/2018 0.38 $81.26 1.85% 41.03 OGE Energy OGE 4/9/2018 4/30/2018 0.33 $32.54 4.09% 6.47 Time Warner TWX 4/9/2018 5/1/2018 0.4 $95.11 1.69% 74.49 Toronto-Dominion Bank TD 4/9/2018 4/30/2018 0.67 $56.10 4.78% 100.49 Verizon VZ 4/9/2018 5/1/2018 0.59 $47.50 4.97% 196 American Tower Corp AMT 4/10/2018 4/27/2018 0.75 $141.42 2.12% 61.4 Campbell Soup Co. CPB 4/10/2018 4/30/2018 0.35 $42.28 3.31% 13.15 Raytheon Co. RTN 4/10/2018 5/10/2018 0.87 $214.05 1.62% 62.29 The Gap Inc. GPS 4/10/2018 5/2/2018 0.24 $31.19 3.11% 12.01 Accenture plc ACN 4/11/2018 5/15/2018 1.33 $148.79 1.79% 94.78 Aetna AET 4/11/2018 4/27/2018 0.5 $168.76 1.19% 55.7 Banco Santander Brasil SA ADS Repstg 1 Unit BSBR 4/11/2018 5/3/2018 0.04 $11.85 0.00% 42.93 Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. PHI 4/11/2018 5/8/2018 0.53 $28.38 3.76% 6.15 Abbott Labs ABT 4/12/2018 5/15/2018 0.28 $59.00 1.90% 100.54 AbbVie Inc. ABBV 4/12/2018 5/15/2018 0.96 $90.59 4.24% 142.45 American Financial Group AFG 4/12/2018 4/25/2018 0.35 $109.67 1.28% 9.7 Anthem, Inc. ANTX 4/12/2018 5/1/2018 0.66 $54.92 4.78% 14.14 Bank of the Ozarks OZRK 4/12/2018 4/20/2018 0.2 $46.82 1.67% 6.05 Duke Energy Corporation DUKH 4/12/2018 4/16/2018 0.32 $25.28 5.07% 61.24 eBay Inc. EBAY 4/12/2018 5/1/2018 0.38 $26.17 5.73% 27.45 Freeport McMoran FCX 4/12/2018 5/1/2018 0.05 $17.33 1.15% 25.09 General Dynamics Corporation GD 4/12/2018 5/11/2018 0.93 $220.32 1.69% 64.31 General Growth Properties GGP 4/12/2018 4/30/2018 0.22 $20.25 4.35% 19.5 Masco Corp. MAS 4/12/2018 5/14/2018 0.1 $40.19 1.05% 12.51 Mid-American Apartment Communities MAA 4/12/2018 4/30/2018 0.92 $91.98 4.01% 10.84 PerkinElmer, Inc. PKI 4/12/2018 5/10/2018 0.07 $75.34 0.37% 8.09 Shaw Communications SJR 4/12/2018 4/27/2018 0.1 $19.15 6.19% 9.43 THESOUTHERNCO. SERIES SOJA 4/12/2018 4/15/2018 0.39 $26.42 5.91% 50.32 Toll Brothers, Inc. TOL 4/12/2018 4/27/2018 0.11 $43.19 1.02% 6.56 EOG Resources EOG 4/13/2018 4/30/2018 0.18 $101.93 0.73% 58.98 Graco Inc. GGG 4/13/2018 5/2/2018 0.13 $45.09 1.18% 7.62 Hormel Foods HRL 4/13/2018 5/15/2018 0.19 $34.93 2.15% 18.5 PNC Financial PNC 4/13/2018 5/5/2018 0.75 $147.95 2.03% 69.77 Telefonica Brasil SA (ADR) VIV 4/13/2018   0.38 $15.07 0.00% 24.8 Watsco Inc. WSO 4/13/2018 4/30/2018 1.45 $185.88 3.12% 6.33