To get details on the dividends for the SPY, go to the SPDR website and click on ETF Tax Information â 2008, which brings up a pdf file. The dividends for the SPY are shown on page 2 of the pdf. You'll see that in 2008, SPY paid $2.72 a share in dividends, $2.33 a share of which was qualified. The SPY owns some real-estate investment trusts, which pay some unqualified dividends.
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