Dividend Stock Investing

Thursday, December 14, 2023

==New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT) decreases quarterly cash dividend

Previously:

Forward Dividend & Yield 1.20 (12.53%)
Ex-Dividend Date Sep 20, 2023

New York Mortgage Trust decreases quarterly cash dividend to $0.20/share from $0.30/share

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Basic Rules You Need to Earn that Dividend

There is only one day when you have to be recognized as the owner: the record date.

Here’s how it works. The company selects a “record date” and anyone who is the registered owner of stock on that date gets the dividend. Once the record date is set, the ex-dividend date is also set to fall two days before record date. This is done because it takes three business days to settle stock transfer. So you have to buy shares of stock before ex-dividend date so that you will be the stockholder of record three days later, on the record date. The same is true of exercising call options. They must be exercised before the ex-dividend date to take delivery of the shares by the record date.

You can sell your shares on ex-dividend date or any date after. As long as you bought shares before ex-dividend date, you get the dividend.

Payout date comes later, often as much as a month later. For irregular payments (semiannual or annual) payout date might be a matter of months.

The stock is expected to be reduced by the amount of the dividend on the record date. But in fact, this often becomes invisible. For example, a 30 cent dividend might be offset by normal market activity including a possible offsetting rise in price. So many mentions of this offsetting decline in the stock price make it sound like a disaster, when in fact the amount of the dividend is so small that the offset in the stock price is likely to have little lasting effect.

So there isn’t really that much to remember. You have to buy (or exercise your call option) before ex-date in order to earn the dividend. And you can sell any time after and still be acknowledged as stockholder of record.

SUMMARY

An investor only needs to own the stock for one day (the record date) to be entitled to receive the dividend payment. 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. These rules are different for special dividends over 25%.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Top-Tier Dividend Stocks With 5%+ Yields

These high-yielding dividend stocks can be a great source of passive income for investors.

Devon Energy (DVN): Investors looking for energy exposure can’t go wrong owning this big dividend payer.
Verizon Communications (VZ): Patient investors might find this all-time low trading price a compelling opportunity.
V.F. Corp. (VFC): This company’s recent decline makes its yield too good to ignore.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

NAREIT's REITweek virtual conference : June 2-4, 2020

Speakers include

Digital Realty (NYSE:DLR) CEO A. William Stein,
Crown Castle International (NYSE:CCI) CEO Jay Brown,
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) CEO Jon Bortz,
Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE:DRE) CEO James Connor,
Regency Centers (NASDAQ:REG) CEO Lisa Palmer,
Public Storage (NYSE:PSA) CEO Joseph Russell,
Boston Properties (NYSE:BXP) CEO Owen Thomas and
Ventas (NYSE:VTR) CEO Debra Cafaro.

Companies with management presentations include

QTS Realty (NYSE:QTS),
Global Medical REIT (NYSE:GMRE),
Invitation Homes (NYSE:INVH),
Bluerock Residential Growth REIT (NYSEMKT:BRG),
CTO Realty Growth (NYSEMKT:CTO),
CubeSmart (NYSE:CUBE), Regency Centers,
American Tower (NYSE:AMT),
Colony Capital (NYSE:CLNY),
CatchMark (NYSE:CTT),
Sabra Health Care REIT (NASDAQ:SBRA) and
NexPoint Residential Trust (NYSE:NXRT).

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Projected dividend changes

Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) to $1.34 from $1.13,
Ametek (NYSE:AME) to $0.16 from $0.14,
NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) to $1.40 from $1.25,
T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW) to $0.84 from $0.76,
Humana (NYSE:HUM) to $0.60 from $0.55,
CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) to $0.26 from $0.24,
Hasbro (HAS) to $0.73 from $0.68,
Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) to $2.64 from $2.46,
Wyndham Hotels (NYSE:WH) $0.31 from $0.29,
Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) to $0.125 from $0.120,
Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE:LPX) to $0.14 from $0.135,
Nu Skin (NYSE:NUS) to $0.375 from $0.370.

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Highest yielders

Some of the highest yielders on the Dow Jones Industrial Index are

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) at 5.02%,
Dow (NYSE:DOW) at 5.14% and
IBM (NYSE:IBM) at 4.82%.

On the S&P 500 Index, yield leaders include

Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) at 4.20%,
People's United Financial (NASDAQ:PBCT) at 4.19% and
Valero (NYSE:VLO) at 3.81%.

On the Nasdaq 100

Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) at 5.02%,
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) at 4.29% and
Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) at 3.40% are at the top the list.

Saturday, November 2, 2019