What is an insurance write-off? How does an insurer decide if a car is a write-off? What are the insurance write-off categories? Category A. Category B. Category C. Category D. Write-off values are relative. What if I don't agree with the decision to write-off my car? If my car is a write-off, can I buy it back? What if the write-off valuation won't cover my car finance?
Changes in the implicit value of a stock can cause it to drop dramatically in price because it is intangible. Basically, it is investors' perceived value of the stock. If investors perceive a company to be in financial trouble, whether it is or not, it decreases the implicit value of the stock.
On the actual ex-dividend date, the stock will drop by the amount of the dividend, so if stock ABC is paying out a dividend or $0.30 per share, its stock price will generally fall by that amount. Note that depending on how the market moves on that particular day the latter point does not always hold.