The most-active stock, at 17.3 million shares, was Hanson P . L . C ., whose ex-dividend date is Monday.
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Shares sometimes rally before and after ex-dividend dates because a company's stock price is lowered to adjust for the increase in the number of shares.
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If you buy a stock shortly before the dividend date and sell it shortly afterward, you will lose the favorable tax treatment bestowed on stock dividends last year.
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If the investor buys before the ex-dividend date, and sells on the ex-dividend date or after, the investor will receive the dividend payment.
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If the investor buys before the ex-dividend date, and sells on the ex-dividend date or after, the investor will receive the dividend payment.
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A share price usually moves up by the dollar amount of the dividend as the ex-dividend date approaches, then falls by the same amount after that date.
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Having the stock price reduced on ex-dividend dates tells me that I'm not really getting anything additional for my money, just a reallocation of funds.
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You could sell the stock on or after the ex-dividend date and still get the dividend, but the stock price will have been adjusted downward for dividend.
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On Monday, the ex-dividend date, Microsoft should drop by about $ 3.08 per share at the start of trading, according to economic theory.
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In this example, assuming that the investor purchased the stock one day before the ex-dividend date, the investor would be a stockholder on the record date.
