You will see a pending status when a company sets the Ex-date and a complete status on the Pay-date, showing the total amount received. As you may already know, you will still get the dividend if you sell your shares between those dates.
This is how it will look if the company decides to give shares instead of cash:
That’ll be handy and looks great. I’d also really like to see a selector at the top of activity letting you filter on kind something like Buy/Sell/Dividends/Deposits.
And a search filter as we have on Discover would be nice too (so you can see all the times you bought a particular stock for example).
Any more news on this? I have received divs in the last few days, and as it doesn’t show in the activity feed there is no way of telling how much!
The live chat only told me the Ex date, Pay date and dividend per share. But as I buy and sell multiple tranches of each share it’s impossible to tell how many I actually owned on the EX date!
Absolutely agree. I have nearly 40 stocks that pay dividends and having to manage the way we have to find out when and how much right now seems very primitive
Quick question, what if you buy before ex-div date and sell after like you said but the shares go up and you make profit? That means you get dividend payment and the profit of capital gain. I checked ex-div date of a company and looked on their share price chart and after the ex-div date the stock increased which I assume is because of people selling so isn’t this a loophole sort of? Or is it that some stocks may be the exception and increase rather than decrease after ex-div date
