Ex dividend dates for stocks
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. Check out the below screenshot of the results for stocks going Ex-Dividend on October 30, 2018. The ex-dividend date is a week later, on March 15. The ex-dividend date is usually two business days before the record date, but holidays and weekends are excluded. In this case, because our ex-dividend date falls on a Friday, the record date is on Monday, or March 18 in this example. The stock's ex-dividend date is June 16, a Monday. The stock's date of record is June 17. Example 1: Joe buys 100 shares of the stock on June 16.