Ex-Dividends To Watch: 3 Stocks Going Ex-Dividend Tomorrow: CMFN, GLAD, DBL
Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 68 U.S. common stocks are scheduled to go ex-dividend. The dividend yields on these stocks range from 0.5% to 18.1%. All of these stocks can be found on our
stocks going ex-dividend
section of our
.
Highlighted Stocks Going Ex-Dividend Tomorrow:
CM Finance
Owners of
(NASDAQ:
) shares, as of market close today, will be eligible for a dividend of 35 cents per share. At a price of $10.00 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 13.5%.
The average volume for CM Finance has been 37,500 shares per day over the past 30 days. CM Finance has a market cap of $140.1 million and is part of the financial services industry. Shares are down 8.4% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
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CM Finance Inc. is a business development company. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.32.
TheStreet Ratings rates
TheStreet Recommends
CM Finance
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, notable return on equity and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself. You can view the full
now.
Gladstone Capital
Owners of
(NASDAQ:
) shares, as of market close today, will be eligible for a dividend of 7 cents per share. At a price of $6.99 as of 9:37 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 11%.
The average volume for Gladstone Capital has been 140,400 shares per day over the past 30 days. Gladstone Capital has a market cap of $178.5 million and is part of the financial services industry. Shares are down 15.7% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
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Gladstone Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in investments in debt and equity securities. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.38.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Gladstone Capital
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself. You can view the full
Gladstone Capital Ratings Report
now.
Doubleline Opportunistic Credit Fund
Owners of
Doubleline Opportunistic Credit Fund
(NYSE:
) shares, as of market close today, will be eligible for a dividend of 70 cents per share. At a price of $25.80 as of 9:35 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 8%.
The average volume for Doubleline Opportunistic Credit Fund has been 71,300 shares per day over the past 30 days. Doubleline Opportunistic Credit Fund has a market cap of $371.4 million and is part of the financial services industry. Shares are up 3.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
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More About Dividends:
One benefit of owning a stock is the potential that you will be paid a dividend. The distribution of dividend payments is another way for a company to share its profit with you. A dividend means that the company pays you a certain amount of money, either as a one-time payment or more commonly on a quarterly basis, for each share of stock you own.
Many times, dividends come at the expense of greater price appreciation, because the company is distributing its profits to shareholders rather than reinvesting the profits back into the growth of the company. However, companies that pay dividends can be very attractive to investors when they offer a steady stream of income. There are some important terms and dates an investor should be familiar with before purchasing any dividend-paying companies. Let's work through an example to help better explain some of these terms:
On March 1, ABC Widget Company has decided that because it holds excess cash and lacks investment opportunities, it would like to reward shareholders with a regular quarterly dividend payment. The date for this particular announcement is known as the declaration date. It is on this date that the company announces the specific dividend payment along with the holder-of-record date (aka record date) and the payment date. The company announces that a dividend payment of 25 cents per share will be payable March 31, 2012 (the payment date) to all shareholders of record at the close of business on March 16, 2012 (holder-of-record date). What does this all mean? Well the short story is that the company looks at its records on March 16 and anyone listed on the books as an owner of ABC Widget company will be eligible for the dividend payment (on March 31).
The one other important term to remember is the ex-dividend date. The ex-dividend date (typically two trading days before the holder-of-record date for U.S. securities) is the day in which a company begins trading without the dividend. In order to have a claim on a dividend, shares must be purchased no later than the last business day before the ex-dividend date. A company trading ex-dividend will have the upcoming dividend subtracted from the share price at the start of the trading day. Many times, the price of a stock will increase in anticipation of the upcoming dividend as the ex-dividend date approaches, yet will fall back by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date.
