Tuesday, January 31, 2012

How To Check For Dividend Payout


SHARE OWNERSHIP RECORD:

Year    Stock (Exchange)                WL/LL   YL/WT/SZ      Value     Dividend
2009    CapitaReit China (SGX)         2,000          1,000                 ?                 ?
2010    Australand (ASX)                      400             200                 ?                 ?
2011    Ascendas India Reit (SGX)     1,000            500                  ?                 ?
2012    Rickmers Maritime (SGX)      2,000          1,000                 ?                 ?


Notes:
1. There are many ways to check for a company's share price and dividend payouts:
- from company's own website,
- from public market news/data providers (like Bloomberg, Reuters, Google and Yahoo Finance etc.), or
- from the website of the exchange where the share is listed.

I prefer to use the official exchange websites because the information there is official and in addition to that it contains all of the company's other announcements required by law or exchange's listing rules like major news or events that may affect the company's future and share price, buy/sell by substantial shareholders (as insiders their actions are very telling) etc.


Links to major market news/data providers:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI#
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=h02.si


Above post made in response to Le's mail below.

From: Le
To: CCK
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Subject: hi

Dear Uncle,

How are you?

Just wondering about the dividends, which companies I've got and how many dividends for each?

Thanks.
From Le


CCK's response:

Hi,

Happy new year. I thought when I showed you all last year, you wrote down how to check? Do you still have the notes?

Links to exchanges official websites:
(SGX) http://www.sgx.com/wps/portal/sgxweb/home/company_disclosure/company_announcements (ASX) http://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics/announcements.do

Here are steps to check for dividends :

1. Know the list of stocks (companies) you have shares on (see Notes at bottom)

2. For each stock, go to above links and look for DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENTS made by the company from JAN-DEC each year. We go by calendar year so that it is easier to remember what you have taken so far (you all already took for Jan-Dec 2009 and Jan-Dec 2010). Make sure to select the all the right time periods

3. Determine amount of dividend per share. Then multiply with no. of shares you have to get total dividend. Remember, different companies pay dividend at different intervals - some every 3 months, some every 6 months, some once a year only.

WL and me calculated last week and she had about S$318, so yours should be half of that (S$158) because you have half the number of shares compared to her. Try checking the website and verify.

Things to remember when claiming your dividends:
- notify me of your claim by stating the total dividend and share value for each stock you own (by providing the information for '?' in format provided in Notes below).
- claim must be made within the next calendar year (otherwise forfeited). This is so that you learn how to check every year.
- after notification, you can collect your dividend anytime in future (no forfeiture even if you collect a few years later).

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