Dividends
How payouts work: the record date, the dividend policy behind the number, and what yield actually tells you.
7 articles
Reinvesting dividends: where the return leaks awayA payout left sitting in the account drops out of compounding. The loss is invisible in year one and decides the result by year ten.
What dividends are paid out ofProfit, cash flow or debt — three different sources with different consequences for how durable the payouts are.
The dividend gap: why the price falls and when it closesA fall equal to the payout is arithmetic rather than a market reaction. How fast the gap closes depends on causes unrelated to the payout itself.
How to receive a dividend, step by stepWhat to do and when so the payout reaches your account, and which mistakes cost it most often.
The dividend trap: why a record yield is a bad signalYield rises when the price falls. How to tell a generous company from one that is being sold off.
Dividend policy: how to read it and what to believe in itWhy historical yield promises nothing, what a policy actually fixes, and which caveats matter more than the percentages.
How dividends work on the Russian marketWho decides on a payout and when, what the record date is, why the price falls the next day, and how not to buy the share too late.2 min