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Originally Posted by CRCRFT78
Since you brought up dividends, is there a time frame of when you'll start to receive them if you own some shares of that stock? If you bought Monday and Friday they're paying dividends, will you receive that? Lastly, is there a schedule when dividends are paid?
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The Ex-Dividend date is a declared date which you must purchase the shares on or before. It's a couple of days prior to the technical date of record to receive the dividend (to allow for processing, etc.) Most (or probably all) dividend paying companies press release the declared dividends that will be and the ex-dividend date. I am not sure if all have fixed schedules (or if there is some latitiude allowed to ex-dividend dates) but all of mine are the same month-to-month or quarter-to-quarter.