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Over the past 10 years The Travelers Companies Inc (NYSE:TRV) has returned an average of 3.00% per year from dividend payouts. The stock currently pays out a dividend yield ofRead More...
Dividend stocks outperform non-dividend-paying stocks over the long run. It happens in good markets and bad, and the benefit of dividends can be quite striking: Dividend payments have made up ...
The company published one of the more encouraging sets of quarterly figures so far this earnings season.
The Travelers Insurance Company was founded in Hartford by James G. Batterson, a stone contractor [12] who became aware for the first time of accident insurance for travelers (i.e., an early form of travel insurance) while traveling in England in 1859 from Leamington to London. [13]
Conversely, if you buy stock after the record date but before the ex-dividend date of a large special dividend, you are entitled to the dividend and will receive it via the due bill process. As is the case with all dividends, if you sell your stock prior to the ex-dividend date, within the due bill period, you relinquish your right to the dividend.
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]
The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which analyst John Reeves discusses topics from across the investing world.Travelers is a well-run insurance company with ...
Thus the key date for a stock purchase is the ex-dividend date: a purchase on that date (or after) will be ex (outside, without right to) the dividend. If, for whatever reason, a share transfer prior to the ex-dividend date is not recorded on the register in time, the seller is obligated to repay the dividend to the buyer when he receives it.