Ex-dividend Date Forecasts

Someone asked, so here it is.

Using the Marcus Today DIVIDEND PREDICTOR, you can find our best guess at an ex-dividend date. But you can only look at one stock at a time.

Then we have our Dividend Tables  - but they only ever show dividends that have been announced. So they won't include the ex-dividend date for the CBA, for instance, until the day after the results when the ex-dividend date is confirmed. But some of you want to know the timetable for dividends before results are announced so you can plan your income year. So here's a solution.

EXPECTED EX-DIVIDEND DATES

These tables show you last year's timetable forthe last two sets of results, ex-dividend and pay dates.

Please note a few points:

• This is HISTORY - these are last year's actual results, ex-dividend and pay dates.
• Last year is the best guide we have to what will happen in future.
• Generally speaking, (bigger) companies report on the same day of the same week of the financial year.
• So if the CBA had results on Tuesday of the sixth week of the financial year last year, they are likely to do so again.
• From year to year, whilst the same day of the same week may hold (or may not), the date will obviously change by a number or two.
• Using the same day of the same week as a guide, you can maybe work out the future dates yourself.
• Some stocks may be missing!
• I have deleted Special dividends.

Disclaimers - There is no guarantee that the companies shown will pay a dividend in future or that they will have results or dividends on the same date. Buyer Beware! Well, user beware. Some companies have already announced results and dividend dates for the future before results. The best actual guide you have is to go to their website and see if they have already decided on the dates in the Investor Centre Diary. The smaller the company gets, the less reliable it tends to get. Some smaller companies don't have set dates at all, you get them when you get them. 

SPREADSHEET

You can read the tables below, but I thought you might like the Excel spreadsheet to sort yourself. I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INACCURACIES, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS - THIS IS A GUIDE ONLY.

TOP 50 STOCKS

I have highlighted the stocks with yields on last year's individual dividends that offered a net yield above 2% - so BEFORE franking.  Notte the table doesn't show the yield on the stock - you have to add the last two dividends together to work that out.

THE SECOND FIFTY STOCKS

STOCKS IN THE NEXT 100 with yields over 2% on the one dividend.