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					Originally Posted by  68Cuda
					 
				 
				Ex-Dividend date.  
 
Declare date: 9/12/2014 - this is the date Intel "declared" they were paying a $0.225 per share dividend on 12/1/2014. 
 
Ex-dividend date: 11/5/2014 - If you own the stock before this date you receive the dividend, if you acquire it this day or after you do not.  If I sell you my stock on or after 11/5/2014 you buy it "Ex-dividend", without the dividend. 
 
Record date: date the company records the owners for the purpose of the dividend. A few business days after the Ex date. 
 
Pay date: when the dividend pays out.   
 
So, since I will own this stock tomorrow, I will get the dividend on 12/1 even if I sell it before 12/1. 
			
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 Once a stock goes EX-Dividend does that mean it will never pay a dividend again as long as it is traded?  Can the company later on down the road say we are going to pay a dividend again on a later date?