RE: Overreation12 Apr 2024 10:11
Two points,
The ex-dividend date, or ex-div. date, marks the cut off point for shareholders to be credited a pending dividend. To receive the dividend, shareholders must have bought the stock before the ex-dividend date.
If you sell the day before the ex-div. you do not get the dividend.
If you sell ex-div. the day when the share normally drops you get the dividend.
To buy back shares one has to pay the 0.5% stamp duty (except for AIM stocks) plus buy/sell margin plus a trade cost(?). For 1000 Aviva shares this could be approximately 4 to 5pence depending on your 'trade cost'. Shares do not always drop the amount of the dividend plus 5p.
If you intend to keep the share why bother, you are only giving money to the brokers and the UK Government. You might win but you might lose!
CHAT