jasonjim

Thoughts on REITS, Financials and the U.S. Dollar

Good quality REITs will follow the financials upwards IMO. Many of them are seriously undervalued, which gives an opportunity not only for their great dividends but also for serious capital gains over the intermediate term.

36 Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in Early March

As usual in articles of this nature not all of the facts have been mentioned, which could cause an ill-informed reader to be led astray. More important than the ex-dividend date is the record date which usually follows the ex-dividend date by 2 or 3 days. If you don't own the shares on the record date you don't get the dividend, even if you bought them before the ex-dividend date. I thought that this point should have been mentioned in the article.