The date where you will actually receive the cash dividend is called the "Payable Date". It can be a few days or a few weeks after the Ex-Dividend date. The body of any post on smartdividend.com will indicate the Payable date.

The ex-dividend date for the above dividend declaration is August 6, 2007. On (or after) this date, the security will trade without its dividend. If you buy the dividend paying stock one day before the ex-dividend date you will still get the dividend, but if you buy on the ex-dividend date or after you will not get the dividend. The ex-dividend date is the second business day before the date of record. The ex-dividend date is important because ownership takes a few days to record.

The ex-dividend date is the date upon which the stock begins trading without rights to the next dividend payment. Typically, the ex-dividend date is two business days before the record date, unless the intervening business day is one on which the NYSE is closed. The record date is announced in our dividend press releases. For more information, please call iStar Financial's Investor Relations department at 212-930-9400.

The ex-dividend date is a specific date, occurring after the dividend has been declared after which buyers are no longer entitled to receive the last declared dividend. This is known as going 'ex-dividend' and before this date the shares are said to be 'cum-dividend'. If you buy shares before the ex-dividend date, you are entitled to the recently announced dividend. If you purchase shares on or after that date, the previous owner of the shares (and not you) is entitled to the dividend.

The ex-dividend date is a specific date, occurring after the dividend has been announced, after which buyers are no longer entitled to receive the last declared dividend. This is known as going 'ex-dividend' and before this date the shares are said to be 'cum-dividend'. If you buy shares before the ex-dividend date, you are entitled to the recently declared dividend. If you purchase shares on or after that date, the previous owner of the shares is entitled to the dividend.

Since inception in 1997, ST Engineering has declared first and final dividends every year. Ex-dividend date for dividends declared for the preceding financial year is usually in early May and payment date is usually later in May. From 2007, the Group will start to distribute interim dividends on its ordinary dividends. This means that the Group will start paying dividends twice a year from 2007.

When the cash dividend is worth more than 25% of the stock value, the ex-dividend date is the business day AFTER the payable day. You still must own the stock at market opening on the ex-dividend date to get the distribution. If you sell on the payable day (this is, the business day before ex-dividend day), you will see the cash dividend paid to you then taken out of your brokerage account.

Shareholders will be notified through their bank or broker how the procedure works. Upon approval of the proposed dividend, shareholders will have time to inform their bank or broker about their choice for either cash or stock (see the dividend calendar).

There will be a pro-rata adjustment of future dividends. As usual, future dividends are at the discretion of the Sandy Spring Bancorp Board of Directors. On November 14, 2001, Sandy Spring Bancorp declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share for the fourth quarter of 2001. This represents an increase of $.02 per share over the third quarter of 2001 and $0.04 per share over the fourth quarter dividend of 2000.

The "ex date" is March 2, 2005. This is the date when Resources Connection, Inc.'s common shares will trade on the NASDAQ at the new split-adjusted price.

Prior to announcing each dividend, companies set a date on which shares will be sold without entitlement to the dividend. Before that date they are said to be 'Ex Dividend'. If you sell the shares before the Ex Dividend date you will not be entitled to receive the dividend. If you sell shares after the Ex Dividend date, i.e. selling a share Cum Dividend, you will be entitled to receive the dividend.

GigaMedia does not currently have plans for a stock dividend split or stock split. The board of directors will review this policy periodically and changes are subject to further announcement.

The morning after a share goes ex-div the price of the share will drop by the amount of the dividend (approximately). With a quarterly spread bet, the dividend will have already been removed from the price quoted by Finansbet so there will be no effect on the price quoted between the day before ex-div and the day after it.

Ex-Dividend - A synonym for "without dividend." The buyer of an ex-dividend stock is not entitled to the next dividend payment. Dividends are paid quarterly to all those shareholders recorded on the books of the company as of a previous date of record. For example, a dividend may be declared as payable to stockholders of record on a given Friday.

Cash bonuses are guaranteed according to the payment schedule. Dividends are not guaranteed and may change from time to time.

The concerned company obtains the details of beneficiary holders and their holdings as on the date of the book closure / record date from NSDL. The payment to the investors will be made by the company through the ECS ( Electronic Clearing Service) facility or by issuing warrants on which your bank account details are printed. The bank account details will be those which you would have mentioned in your account opening form or changed thereafter.

The stock dividend ratio is the average of the high and low price of the Wolters Kluwer stock on the determination date (see dividend calendar).