Stocks Going Ex Dividend in December 2020

The following is a short list of some of the many stocks going ex dividend during the next month.

Many traders and investors use the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the strategy of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.

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This technique generally works in bull markets and flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the strategy during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.

The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and many with yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the periodic dividend amount.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) 12/1/2020 10.00 0.72%
Nike, Inc. (NKE) 12/4/2020 0.275 0.82%
Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc (DKS) 12/10/2020 0.313 2.10%
Walmart Inc. (WMT) 12/10/2020 0.54 1.42%
Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY) 12/14/2020 0.55 1.95%
ADT Inc. (ADT) 12/18/2020 0.035 1.75%
Portland General Electric Company (POR) 12/24/2020 0.407 3.83%
Xerox Holdings Corporation (XRX) 12/30/2020 0.25 4.31%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found HERE . (If you have been to the page before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists HERE . Most of the lists are free.

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

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Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written; affiliate links.

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Does It Pay to Buy an IPO Stock?

by Fred Fuld III and Nkem Iregbulem

Have you ever tried to get in on a hot Initial Public offering but missed out? Suppose you could have been able to get some shares on the IPO. Do you think it would have worked out?

We ran an analysis of a large selection of all the stocks that went public during the first half of the year, to determine how successful the IPO shareholders would have been. We looked at both the return on the day of the IPO and the return from the IPO to the end of June.

You will notice that of the 23 stocks, some of the stocks were down on the first day of trading but ended up year-to-date. One example is Evolus (EOLS), a provider of Botox aesthetic treatments and procedures. The stock was down 4% on the day of the IPO but increased by 128% from its IPO in February to the end of June.

The mean average of the percentage returns for the stocks on the day of the IPO was 5.78%. The overall mean average of the returns from the day of the IPO to the end of June was 18.84%. That is a decent return, especially when you consider that the S&P 500 was only up 0.8% over the same period.

The details can be found below:

Company Symbol IPO price End of IPO Day Price %chg Price End of June %chg
Neuronetics STIM 17.00 27.78 63% 27.78 63%
Entera Bio ENTX 8.00 6.28 -22% 5.99 -25%
HyreCar HYRE 5.00 5.10 2% 4.89 -2%
The Lovesac Company LOVE 16.00 23.99 50% 21.33 33%
Chicken Soup for the Soul CSSE 12.00 9.25 -23% 9.56 -20%
I3 Verticals IIIV 13.00 18.35 41% 14.75 13%
Magenta Therapeutics MGTA 15.00 14.52 -3% 13.68 -9%
ElectroCore LLC ECOR 15.00 19.85 32% 17.46 16%
Iterum Therapeutics ITRM 13.00 12.24 -6% 11.50 -12%
Hancock Jaffe Laboratories HJLI 5.00 5.24 5% 3.40 -32%
CLPS Incorporation CLPS 5.25 5.04 -4% 13.43 156%
Aslan Pharmaceuticals ASLN 7.03 5.61 -20% 7.78 11%
GrafTech International EAF 15.00 14.45 -4% 18.46 23%
Biofrontera BFRA 9.88 12.18 23% 11.99 21%
Motus GI Holdings MOTS 5.00 4.38 -12% 7.27 45%
Victory Capital VCTR 13.00 11.60 -11% 10.10 -22%
Evolus EOLS 12.00 11.50 -4% 27.32 128%
One Stop Systems OSS 5.00 4.88 -2% 4.45 -11%
Genprex GNPX 5.00 4.50 -10% 7.90 58%
Pagseguro Digital PAGS 21.50 29.20 36% 27.82 29%
EyeNovia EYEN 10.00 9.92 -1% 6.45 -36%
Nine Energy Service NINE 23.00 26.10 13% 33.04 44%
ADT ADT 14.00 12.39 -12% 8.46 -40%
AVERAGE 5.78% 18.84%