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I'm talking about not paying attention to the ex-dividend date of a stock I am I know I have, and have wanted to knock my head against the wall for doing it. Don't Lose Track of the Ex-Dividend Date
For instance, if the record date is Sunday, then the ex-dividend date is the preceding Thursday, not Friday — assuming no intervening holidays. To be a stockholder on the record date, an investor must purchase the stock before the ex-dividend date in order to allow for the 1-trading day settlement of the stock purchase. If the investor ...
Dividend stripping is the practice of buying shares a short period before a dividend is declared, called cum-dividend, and then selling them when they go ex-dividend, when the previous owner is entitled to the dividend. On the day the company trades ex-dividend, theoretically the share price drops by the amount of the dividend.
It gets worse if the record date is not a business day - then the ex-dividend date is the business day before the business day BEFORE the record date. To quote the article, "The ex-dividend date is normally the business day (2 days minus 1) before the record date." This edit may help. Art LaPella 15:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
The ex-dividend date, i.e. the first date in which a new buyer of shares would not be entitled to the dividend, is the business day prior to the record date (see ex-dividend date for exceptions). In the case of a special dividend of 25% or more, however, special rules that are quite different apply.
A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders, after which the stock exchange decreases the price of the stock by the dividend to remove volatility. The market has no control over the stock price on open on the ex-dividend date, though more often than not it may open higher. [ 1 ]
Dollar General stock tumbled 32% on Thursday after the discount retailer cut its outlook, pointing to a financially pressured customer. Thursday's drop in Dollar General was its biggest on record.
Stock price graph illustrating the 2020 stock market crash, showing a sharp drop in stock price, followed by a recovery. A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic ...