Comment by
TheRock07 on Jul 24, 2012 4:44pm
The dumbness of the retail investor never fails to astonish me. Today, the divy ex-date, we saw retail investors selling their shares, having assumed that they now qualify for the divy.. The record date was last week btw................which is the correct divy date. Anyway, the sheep always makes us rich.
Comment by
dollpartz on Jul 25, 2012 10:56am
I know I'm gonna sound stupid, but why are people talking about the 19th when the NR says the 23rd. I missed something. SP seems to have dropped after the 23rd, as well..
Comment by
goldennugget24 on Jul 25, 2012 11:18am
""""""""I know I'm gonna sound stupid, but why are people talking about the 19th when the NR says the 23rd. I missed something. SP seems to have dropped after the 23rd, as well.. """""""" You can not be serious, are you!?!?!?
Comment by
REEnewbie on Jul 25, 2012 11:46am
July 23 is the record day, meaning you have to be owner of record on that day. When you buy a stock, it takes 3 business days to settle; so to be on record on July 23, you would have to have purchased it 3 business days earlier, so July 18th.
Comment by
JackelRadek on Jul 25, 2012 11:51am
Reminds me of the movie "Arthur" where the butler asks Dudley Moore when he's taking a wiz if he would like to hold it for him. :-)
Comment by
dollpartz on Jul 25, 2012 11:54am
Ah ok, thanks.. still some civil people left. :) I usually don't own dividend paying stocks. It was solely out of curiosity I asked as I owned this for months (I'm so stupid I bought it at 80 cents, and earlier bought it at 30 cents).