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    When will next Dividends be paid?

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    Typically a few weeks before the company goes ex-dividend, an announcement is made.   The ex-dividend or ex-D date is considered record date.  This means that the owner of record for that stock can only trade out of the stock on EX-D date, and not the day before.  People think that EX-D date is the day the dividend is paid.  Wrong.  The dividend is paid on "payment date" or a few weeks after EX-D date.


    Remember the 2 dates:  The EX-D date and the PAYMENT date.


    Finally, most dividends are paid quarterly.  Hence, a stock paying a dividend rate of 4% will pay 1% in dividend each quarter, or 4% for the entire year.


     


     



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