Tag: dividend payment
This Gimmicky Dividend Strategy Will Cost You Money (Do This Instead)
These days, everyone is looking for safety—and that’s got some folks pondering some pretty, er, unusual strategies that seem secure but are in fact anything but. One such strategy is known as dividend capture, which sounds like a way to bag a company’s quarterly cash dividend without taking the risk of owning the shares. I don’t like the name because […]
What Is The Ex Dividend Date?
What is the ex-dividend date? It’s a deadline on a dividend investor’s calendar. If you own the stock before this date, you’ll be paid the next dividend. Buy the stock after the ex-dividend date, and you won’t be paid the current dividend. Here’s another way of looking at it. Somebody actually owns this dividend payment […]