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Strategies & Market Trends : Buy and Sell Signals, and Other Market Perspectives
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (49867)5/9/2013 7:25:53 AM
From: Machaon  Read Replies (2) of 218385
 
A question: if you buy and own a stock share and that company does an ex dividend, do you get those dividends and how, where does it show up?
You can buy a stock at 4pm the day before Ex-Dividend Day (in this case, on Wednesday), and sell it at 9:30am on Ex-Dividend Day (in this case, today Thursday), and still get the dividend. Usually the dividend payment gets into one's account four trading days after the Ex date.

In my account, dividends in my IRA get paid in new shares, and dividends in my cash account get paid in cash.

It seems AAPL just did that and the price is down 3 points this morning...
The dividend comes out of the stock price. If you will notice, ask for a quote on AAPL. The actual closed price from yesterday, is less than today's quoted closing price, by the amount of the dividend. In other words, it's a zero sum game, unless the equity increases back the amount of the dividend over time.
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