Stock Dividends
For updated information on SPY, IVV, and VOO dividends see this post. Some dividend related info: Excluding market action, Stock/ETF prices will drop by about the dividend amount when opening on their ex-dividend date. The equity no longer carries the value of the dividend, so it drops in value. The 500 stocks comprising the S&P index don’t go ex-dividend en-mass on the 17th, so the index …