Vanguard, iShares and Schwab make their ETF dividend payments just four business days after the ex-dividend date.
If you do wish to account for this, enter the value of the dividend payment with a negative sign on the date a stock goes ex-dividend, and add the number back in when the dividend is received.
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When companies declare a dividend, they choose the amount per share, the date the stock will go ex-dividend, and the date payment will be made to shareholders of record.
Note that PETM is expected to go ex-dividend next week, which will impact option prices.
The answer may shock you, because it will be six weeks after the ex-dividend date.
The time lag between ex-dividend and payment received and reinvested is reduced to a minimum.
Most major ETF sponsors now pay their dividends within a week of the ex-dividend date.
Furthermore, the SPY is expected to go ex-dividend in mid-September for approximately 62 cents, which is about 0.5%.
Leave column E blank on all but the 4 days a year that the ETF does not go ex-dividend.
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The Nikkei Stock Average closed up 0.2% at 12493.79, as the market was weighed by a swath of companies in Tokyo going ex-dividend.
Whatever day your mutual fund goes ex-dividend, the total amount of the dividend is used to purchase additional shares at the end of the day.
Wells Fargo(WFC) broke above 2013 highs and is ex-dividend today.
Stock prices readjust on the ex-dividend date to reflect the pending payment, and there is no guarantee the shares won't slip below the trader's breakeven point, resulting in losses.
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In January, at an investor's conference one day before its ex-dividend date, Verizon indicated that the 2009 full-year earnings it was soon to report would fall short of analysts' estimates.
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Warning: To get the new 15% rate, you must hold a stock for 61 of the 120 days surrounding the date it goes ex-dividend: that is, starts trading without an upcoming dividend attached.
Technically, column C should also account for the lag between stocks going ex-dividend and the dividend payment, but this should not significantly effect the calculations unless the dividend in question is a significant part of the change in your portfolio value on any given day.
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Mr. Jackson's bet: that, because the strike price entitled an investor to own Kimberly-Clark shares at a price lower than the stock's current market price, the investor who bought the call options would exercise the contracts before the ex-dividend date to capture the company's 60 cent-a-share payout (recently increased to 66 cents).
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, IRM and CLX collectively make up 2.19% of the WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund ETF (DTN) which is up by about 0.1% on the day Wednesday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, POM makes up 1.44% of the WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund ETF ( AMEX: DTN )which is trading up by about 0.8% on the day Thursday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, POM makes up 1.49% of the WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund ETF ( AMEX: DTN )which is trading lower by about 0.1% on the day Tuesday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TWC and LMT collectively make up 2.99% of the WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund ETF (DTN) which is up by about 0.8% on the day Thursday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, POM makes up 1.45% of the WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund ETF ( AMEX: DTN )which is trading lower by about 0.5% on the day Thursday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, MDT and DUK collectively make up 3.34% of the WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund ETF (DTN) which is higher by about 0.1% on the day Tuesday.
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The chart below shows the cumulative average outperformance 40 days before and 40 days after the ex-date among dividend-paying stocks in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) countries.
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With a more modest dividend yield than many ex-CRTs, Baytex has managed to grow production and this has enabled the stock to be a standout among its peers.
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We saw this happening when Sting (ex- of The Police) took a whacking great dividend out of his management company.
That's when the board recruited an unlikely savior: ex-labor union economist Harold Ruttenberg, who suspended the dividend and sold seven divisions -- including voting machines -- to raise cash while negotiating new terms with lenders.
While cap-ex could keep rising, Exxon also plans to grow the quarterly dividend.
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The ex-date is the day on or after which a security is traded without a previously declared dividend or distribution.
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