2 people die in this world every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year! It's adds up to 85,000,000 people a year.
They are the record date or date of record and the ex-dividend date or ex-date.. When a company declares a dividend, it sets a record date when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend.hey are the record date or date of record and the ex-dividend date or ex-date.. When a company declares a dividend, it sets a record date when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend.
Note that the ex-dividend date is typically one month after the date of declaration and a little over a month prior to the actual payment date of the dividend. Here is an example of a typical dividend date schedule for the hypothetical stock ABC: 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.