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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.