What happens to a stock after a dividend is payed?
358908
In the very short run it falls the day it is ex-dividend; the day you gain the right to the dividend; not when paid. Not a permanent loss - can regain same day. In utilities & reits & other high yielding investments you notice the impact. In companies like GE (only .25/sh/qtr) gets lost in the noise. Had 1 go ex today & had a real impact.
320258
Dividends are determined each quarter by the board of directors and will likely be the same approximate percentage of the stock price. (So yes, they will split also, although that is not technically correct).
494221
You get the shares you bought only - you don't get the split.  Whoever you bought from gets the split shares.
673080
They last posted a dividend and cap gains distribution on Dec 2, 2005.  It has been 6 months and I think they had another distribution, which lowers the sales price.\n\nEDIT:\nI confirmed on their website that distributions of dividends and capital gains do occur in May and Dec.  If you have your distributions reinvested then it should be a wash for you.  If you have your distributions paid out, then you have the same number of shares at the lower price.
623103
They will no longer have to file with the SEC. They won't have quarterly earnings reports with analysts. Let's see, I think the 10K is exclusive to puclic companies, so they will no longer file this. The board of director's salaries and the executive salaries will not be made public. Dividend pay outs will not be made public. Their will no longer be yardsticks such as EPS,P/E multiples, or market capitializations; just good ol' fashioned appraisals. If you don't sell it back, you are losing out on income. You don't have much of a choice. If the decision to be sold, from the other shareholders has been made, then you have to go along with it. If you don't, it's just folly.
26872
A dividend is a piece of the profit. The share price is not linked to the dividend, although if a company increases the dividend, the price may go up
286724
When a company earns a profit, the board of directors may opt to distribute a portion to shareholders in the form of dividends.\n\nUsually dividends are paid in cash on a per-share basis.\n\nSometimes they are distributed in the form of company stock, and this is called a "script dividend."
124590
Well the PF that is deducted is paid in 2 tranches, check if you got both your tranches also.\n\nYou should ideally get your share + Company share + interest
188618
When a stock goes "ex Dividend" it means that it "excludes" the dividend entitlement.\n\nYou must have bought the stock on the trading day BEFORE the ex dividend date to receive the dividend.\n\nThere are other dividend dates (such as payable date - which is when you get paid the dividend) and also the record date (which is the date by which you need to be on the reigster of shareholders). \n\nIf you buy before the ex date, you'll be on the register by the time the record date comes around. The record date is more of a "back office" administrative date that shareholders need not worry about.
1131331
cost basis for all 468 shares is $570.  However, that assumes there has been no reinvestment of dividends.  \n\nDo you know if this stock has ever paid any dividends?  If it did you should have paid tax on the dividends, and need to adjust the cost basis to add in the amounts used to purchse additional shares.  \nIf for some reason you don't know the amounts, you can always ignore that when you sell and just assume the cost basis is $570 - you'll end up paying more tax than necessary, but should not get in trouble with the IRS. \n\nDiscalimers: The above is my opinion.  I am not authorised or licensed to give any investment, tax or legal advice.
791922
Preferred stock will either be quasi-debt (with fixed preferred dividends, but having some equity characteristics) or be quasi-equity (with floating preferred dividends and pronounced equity characteristics like super-voting rights, convertability).  \n\nIf it is the former, use the post-tax dividend yield (rather than pre- with debt because there is no tax shelter).  You can tweak the cost of preferreds up to account for the equity features.  \n\nIf it is the latter, treat it like common and then tweak it downward for the embedded preferrential features (e.g. super voting, convertable calls) and seniority over common. \n\nPreferred par will be noted in the footnotes. You don't need the underwriting costs (and will almost certainly be immaterial to your analysis).
181745
...  and the price of the stock is adjusted accordingly.  For instance, if you had 300 shares at $15 each, after the split you would have 400 shares at $11.25 apiece.\n\nAs a general rule, the purpose of a stock split is to lower the price of the stock, supposedly to get more people to buy the shares.
747349
No.  But they may attempt  to eliminate the reduced taxes on dividends.  I doubt that though.
929657
Yes.  But read the prospectus, since it may have a provision whereby the administrator automatically reinvests the dividends rather than paying them out.
1135739
they will factor the fall into the spread.  They don't allow arbitage opportunities like this.  I thought I can buy a put on a prediviend payout stock that has a large dividend but that doesn't work either.  If you do short-sell a stock, you have to deduct the dividend and pay it to the owner of the stock that allowed you to borrow his stock for short-selling.
809004
Yahoo doesn't make the rates the companies yuo research or brought up do. and information on companies change daily.\nBut so far all dividend rates i've seen on yahoo matched the ones  paid me.\nYOu should be getting a check form the company right after the rates are announced by the company.  That is all the company does is announced the rate which brokage reporters  than put on yahoo finance. Companies always want the public to see they are  paying a dividend as it improves their image, but sometimes some  companies will exaggerate their dividends (which yahoo has no control over) to entice investors to buy their stock, These are usually companies in trouble.
8094
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...