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Ex Dividend Date Example. The ex-dividend date is the cutoff day to buy a stock and receive its upcoming dividend payment. It will be termed as the Declaration Date.

Ex-dividend dates are extremely important in dividend investing, because you must own a stock before its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. The ex-dividend date, also known as the reinvestment date, is an investment term involving the timing of payment of dividends on stocks of corporations, income trusts, and other financial holdings, both publicly and privately held. Note that the ex-dividend date is typically one month after the date of declaration and a little over a month prior to the actual payment date of the dividend.

These two examples show precisely how easy it is to find information on record dates, ex-dividend dates, and pay dates for corporate dividends.

Shareholders of record as of market close.

The ex-dividend date, also known as the reinvestment date, is an investment term involving the timing of payment of dividends on stocks of corporations, income trusts, and other financial holdings, both publicly and privately held. Because the dividend returns value to the shareholder, ex-dividend also means that the dividend is value removed from the stock's price, meaning the dividend stock typically trades lower on the ex-dividend date. Discover which stocks are splitting, the ration, and split ex-date.

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