Links to a few selected pre-generated reports are shown below: DIA dividend history DVY dividend history IWM dividend history JNK dividend history LQD dividend history SPY dividend history TIP dividend history XLP dividend history XLU dividend history If you need dividend history on a non iShare / SPDR fund or stock then I recommend the DividendInvestor site.
The last few weeks have been painful for me–being on the sidelines while the market stages an impressive rally. I don’t expect to call things right all the time, and there are worse things that just not making money for a month, but it’s not fun missing the call. In the typical buy and hold portfolio things have a different feel. No position …
Some SPY dividend capture strategies I don’t recommend: 1. Sell SPY short right before closing the day before ex-dividend Rationale: Securities tend to drop by about the dividend amount when trading begins (pre-open trading) Problem: The buyer that bought the stock from you deserves the dividend and the loaner that loaned you the stock you sold (probably unknowingly), deserves the dividend too. Two dividends, one …
SPY, said by some to be the most liquid single security in the world, goes ex-dividend four times a year. See this post for the next ex-dividend date and an estimate of the dividend amount. You must buy SPY at least by the end of market on Thursday, the day before ex-dividend, to be eligible for the dividend. Below is SPY’s dividend history over the last …
The intraday SPY prices for the last two days have overlapped with SPY’s March 9th and 10th 2004 values. Since March 9th, 2009 the SPY values exactly 6 years apart have matched each other within 15 points all the time and on average have closed within 4.5 points of each other. While the calendar synchronicity is surprising, it isn’t surprising that the recoveries …
