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Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) stock is about to trade ex-dividend in 3 days time. Ex-dividend means that...
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As a result, Costco's stock trades at a pricey 60 times trailing earnings and 66 times free cash flow. The shares look costly next to big-box retailer Walmart and downright expensive next to Target.
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 ]
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.
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.
Indexed universal life (IUL) has the flexibility of traditional UL but links your cash value growth to a stock market index, such as the S&P 500. Gains are usually capped, but there is also a ...
The determination of the cash value, both the base amount and the applicable surrender charge, in the contract can be explicit by determining the value for each surrender date (guaranteed cash values), by referring to the value of specific investments or subject to the discretion of the insurance company, which is often executed to bring cash values in line with values of the investments of ...