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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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Costco Wholesale's (NASDAQ: COST) stock rallied nearly 80% over the past three years as the S&P 500 advanced about 30%. Below is a review of its business model, expected growth rates, and ...
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 ]
For example, if stock X was bought for $20/share, it split 2:1 three times (resulting in 8 total shares), it is now trading for $50 ($400 for 8 shares), and it pays a dividend of $2/year, then the yield on cost is 80% (8 shares × $2/share = $16/yr paid over $20 invested -> 16/20 = 0.8).
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.
The last time we witnessed this large of a disparity in the forward P/E ratios of the S&P 500 and S&P 500 healthcare stocks -- 22.3 for the S&P 500 vs. 16.9 for healthcare stocks -- was shortly ...
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.