Dividend calendar
A compilation of dates for declared and expected payments: recommendation, meeting, record date and remittance.
How to read the number
It lays out the sequence of events for a security so that the day a decision is taken is not confused with the day entitlement is fixed.
When the metric lies
Expected entries continue a company's past pattern rather than announce a schedule. Declared dates move too, by resolution of the meeting.
Also known as: dividend calendar