Stocks Ex-Dividend Dates

X Factor: 5 Stocks Reaching Their Ex-Dividend Date on January 11

You mentioned several months ago about the relationship of stocks
before and after the quarterly dividend is paid. When I was first
studying the stock market I used to keep track of that but I don't
know if it's stayed constant or changed and my remembrance is
fuzzy now anyway after all those years. People do watch that, at
least to some extent. Saw this article and thought I'd run another
comparison of these 5 stocks from now until after the dividend is
paid and compare it to the market as a whole.

This fails though because the market price is randomly affected
by human psychology and has no relationship to a stock's actual
value.
ARMOUR Residential REIT yields 14.01% annually
monthly yield will be 1.17%, monthly dividend of $0.08
yesterday’s closing price of $6.85, January 30th.
Fifth Street Finance yields 10.72%
monthly yield will be 0.89%, monthly dividend of $0.0958
yesterday’s closing price of $10.73, January 31
*Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold yields 3.59% anually
quarterly yield will be 0.90%, quarterly dividend of $0.3125
yesterday’s closing price of $34.85
Chesapeake Energy Corporation yields 2.09% annually
quarterly yield will be 0.52%, quarterly dividend of $0.0875
yesterday’s closing price of $16.77
Abbott Laboratories yields 1.68% annually
quarterly yield will be 0.42%. quarterly dividend of $0.14
yesterday’s closing price of $33.27

Well, that group will not be representative of the market.
Might abort this, not a good company in the group to
closely follow the market as a whole for this look.
Freeport Mcmoran is a mining stock that varied each day
by up or down 2% or more, too much fluctuation from
the market. Abbot has such a low dividend that it'd be hard
to tell the difference.

That Armour sure is intriguing. 14% div return and a PE less than 7. Doesn't do much volume but is still about 15% below it's 12 month high. Might be OK for a 401k where the divs are deferred.