Dividend calendars are important tools to any investor and
they’re indispensable to any serious investor or one who relies on
dividends as an important source of income. Not every company produces
a dividend calendar as such but most larger corporations do and several
on-line news and financial publishers have them too. There are in fact
two major tissues that the Dividend Calendar addresses. The first and
more important to most investors is the date on which dividends will
acutely be paid and the issue which is more important to those
investors who’re interested in trading rather than income from stock
holdings, is the date when the share will go “ex-dividend”. The
“ex-dividend” date is when any dividend that’s payable to a traded
share will still go to its old owner rather than the new one. The price
of such stock often falls on the day its goes ex-d because anybody
buying it will now will have to wait until the next dividend becomes
due before seeing any income. For both buyers and sellers, it’s a
careful balancing act required in making the decision as to whether to
sell before or after.
Investing in the stock market for an individual has been described as
trying to out anticipate the professional anticipators and this issue
exemplifies that. The question is really by how much the stock will
fall - would the higher price taken prior to going ex-dividend be
sufficient to make up for the loss of the dividend itself? Obviously,
for those investors living on income from stock holdings, the dividend
payment dates are vital. There’s long been a belief that anybody who
has stocks must be infinitely wealthy but nothing is further from the
truth. Quite often, people who’re dependent on investment in business
for their income are living from pay day to pay day like those who get
a monthly pay check from an employer. Unlike an employed person,
they’re at the mercy of the vagaries of the markets and a reduced
dividend payment for whatever reason can result in real hardship. It
can’t be easy having to watch the calendar and hope that the next
dividend payment is on time to cover a credit card statement. Dividend
calendars are available in plenty on the internet. Generally they
require subscription which will vary depending on the amount of service
provided. Some internet dividend calendars are quite comprehensive -
they’ll cover Canadian as well as US companies, trusts that pay
dividends and mutual funds too. These calendars consolidate the
information from the various financial sources and present it in a data
format.
Usually, the information is presented in multiple formats giving dates
of dividend payments due, forthcoming ex-dividend dates, maturity dates
for time limited bonds etc. The information is likely to be presented
with things that are going to happen within the next few days, the next
few weeks and the next few months. For either a serious investor or
somebody who needs the calendar information for peace of mind, the $25
or $30 each month is probably a sound investment in itself.
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