if i own a stock and it pays a dividend when can i sell?
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You can sell it whenever you want.\n\nConsider the ex-dividend date.\n\nIf you sell it after, you will be the one who will receive the dividend.\n\nIf you sell it before, the buyer will receive the dividend.\n\nMight sound important to consider the ex-divident date, but the market ajust to this date (buyer will pay higher price for a stock with dividend than without). So usually it doesn't make much difference.\nHope its helps.
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do you mean ex-dividend?  ex dividend is a date that stockholders must own the stock by to be elligible to collect the next scheduled dividend.\n\n\nexample....XYZ Corp will pay $.25 per share dividend on july 1st.  ex dividend date is June 15th.  if you bought your shares after June 15th, you will not recieve the July dividend.
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Two ways. One is buy low and sell high. Second is by a sound stock that pays dividends and hold it for a long time.
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On the ex-dividend date, shares are bought or sold without the dividend. So if you buy them on or after that date, you do NOT receive the dividend.\n\nTata's press releases and website do not seem to specify the ex-dividend date. To get that specific information, contact the investor relations person at the email address listed below.
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Get proof that you paid for your share. If she gives you your stock - you could end up liable for capital gains tax on the lot. Maybe she could sell your stock on the market and you could buy on the same day? but again - there could be a capital gain problem.
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Understanding Capital Gains on Mutual Funds\nOften when tax season nears, mutual fund investors become confused. Why do we have to pay taxes on a fund that had a losing year? \n\nBy law, mutual funds must declare distributions each year. These distributions represent a profit the fund made when selling securities. Every year, usually in December, the fund will pay out these gains to the shareholders in the form of income dividends and/ or capital gains. \n\nEven in years with negative returns, mutual funds can, and must, pay out distributions. Capital gains are calculated by taking the price you sold the security for and subtracting your purchase price (cost basis). It doesn't matter if the securities that the fund held were doing poorly, all that matters is that the fund sold the security at a profit and must now pay out the profits in the form of a distribution, which is a taxable event for the shareholder. \n\nTo better understand how this could happen, imagine your fund bought a security in 1997 for $15 a share. \n\nSponsored Links\nHighest Savings Rate.\nCroft APY. No mins. No fees. No accounts.\nwww.double-fx.com\n\nIndia properties for sale\nExcellent properties available at great locations. Contact now!\nClassifieds.Sulekha.com\n\nCapital Gains Tax\nLooking for Capital Gains Tax? Get more information here.\nwww.toseeka.com\nAt the start of 2000, the security was worth a total of $30 a share, but the fund ended up selling the security for only $25 a share. This is a loss for the year, but an overall profit of $10 a share. Another possibility would be for the fund to sell the security for $35 a share, which is a gain even for the most current year, but the rest of the funds holdings went sour and created a losing year for the fund. This fund would still be forced to pay out capital gains on the security that they sold. \n\nWhat if the fund has capital losses? \n\nIt is possible that the fund did not make a profit off selling its securities. In the case of capital losses, the fund would not pay out a distribution (although they could pay income distributions). The fund would apply the loss to future capital gains. \n\nWhat if I signed up to automatically reinvest the dividends? \n\nThis is still considered a taxable event. Reinvested dividends are treated as cash payments. \n\nWhat if I bought the fund one day before the distribution was declared? \n\nSorry, but you are out of luck. It doesn't matter whether you held the fund for one day or for 10 years, you are still stuck with paying taxes on the distribution. This is why advisers usually recommend that you never buy a fund right before it pays a distribution. The distribution does lower the net asset value (NAV), allowing you to deduct it when you sell the fund, but paying the taxes sooner rather than later prevents you from gaining investment income on the amount that is taxed. \n\nWhat if my mutual fund is in an IRA or 401k plan? \n\nIf you find yourself in this situation, there is no need to worry. Taxes do not affect a non-taxable account. Uncle Sam will have to wait until you start taking money out of these accounts (the Roth IRA is an exception
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There is not enough information in your question to determine what it is you are trying to find out.\n\nDo you mean to get your $30 back? If it is a dividend of $3 once a year then you would get your money back after ten years.
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Really, this is a judgment call.\n\nIs there a public market for the warrants? If so, check the price you can get for a direct sale--it might be better than the profit from exercising and selling the security.\n\nIf the warrants are about to expire, then obviously this is the right time to cash out. If the warrants have a long time until they expire, and you think the company is good, you might want to hold on to them. If you owned the stock itself, would you sell it?
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I would file 13 and sell it later.  It is a bad time to sell right now.\n\nCoach
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What do want to know? Look at ratio of debt to equity--the more debt the greater the risk if earnings are poor but if earnings are good the equity owner will do very well. the interest on debt must be paid whereas a dividend doesn't.
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Dividends are payments made by a company to its shareholders. When a company earns a profit, some of it is reinvested in the business and called retained earnings, and some of it can be paid to its shareholders as a dividend. The frequency of these varies by country. In the United States dividends are usually declared quarterly by the board of directors. In some other countries dividends are paid biannually, as an interim dividend shortly after the company announces its interim results and a final dividend typically following its annual general meeting. In other countries, the board of directors will propose the payment of a dividend to shareholders at the annual meeting who will then vote on the proposal.\n\nIn the United States, decisions regarding the amount and frequency of dividends is solely at the discretion of the board of directors. Shareholders are explicitly forbidden from introducing shareholder resolutions involving specific amounts of dividends.\n\nWhere a company makes a loss during a year, it may opt to continue paying dividends from the retained earnings from previous years or to suspend the dividend. Where a company receives a one-off gain, e.g. from the sale of some assets, and has no plans to reinvest the proceeds, the money is often returned to shareholders in the form of a special dividend.
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You're correct.  Presumably you received a 1099-DIV with $8000 (or whatever) in the cap gains distribution.  You would need to include that amount in your return.  When you sell the shares, that amount will be included in your basis so your eventual gain will be total sales price-$108,000.
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GM pays a quarterly dividend on the 10th of March, June, Sept., & Dec.  The ex date (the date that you must own the stock to be eligible for the dividend) is the 8th of the month before, i.e. you must have purchased GM on February 3rd before the close of the market to be eligible for the March dividend.  Last year the dividend was $2.00/share, which meant you got $.50/share each quarter.
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No.  The instant you ever receive any dividends, even if you immediately turn around and plow them back into the stock, it doesn't matter, you have recieved income, and that income is taxable.  \n\nThis is one of the many reasons real estate is my investment of choice; it doesn't have these pesky tax problems...
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There are several ways to make money by buying shares. Any shares bought are obviously owned by you. You can keep the shares if they are good and profitable company, and wait for dividents usually paid quarterly, haLf yearly or sometimes annually, meaning once a year. But usually, if you want to make better money, buy the shares at a lower price, during a poor market, wait for the price of that share to go up. Draw a margin how much you want to make and sell at that price when it reaches that amount of your choice. Sometimes, your broker may advise you to hold on because he may know the price is going up further and you may be able to make more.When market is good, it is more advisable to sell on profit rather than wait for the dividends which are usually very much lower than the market gains. Having advised all that, please do not be too greddy or obssessed by the share market, otherwise you may burn your fingers and lose all that you have earned or more.
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Gains from stocks held less than 1 year are termed "short term" capital gains. Short term gains are taxed as ordinary income, meaning that the gains will be taxed at your personal marginal tax rate. If you hold the stock for 1 year or more, the gains will be "Long Term" capital gains and will be taxed at 15%(Unless your marginal tax rate is lower than 15%, in which case the long term gains will be taxed at 5%)\n\nAs far as reporting and paying the taxes, you can wait until you file your taxes. IF the amount of your gains is substantial relative to your adjusted gross income from last year, you will want to file a quarterly estimated tax payment to avoid potential penalties at the end of the year. the IRS website is a great resource, check it out.
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When you sell the ETFs after a year, you get LTCG treatment.  When you get a distribution from your holdings (without selling), usually most of it is qualified dividends if the distribution mostly comes from dividends from stocks rather than REITs or interests.  Your 1099-B will tell you how much of each distribution is qualified dividends.  Non-qualified dividends are taxed at ordinary income rate.