Stock Split, Dividend & Buyback Watch

Why this is recommended

Buying before an ex-dividend date, submitting a tender or merger election before it expires, or selling ahead of a reverse split that signals distress each protects money the year's fee cannot match.

What the Tab covers

Who it is for

The 60 percent of American households that own individual stocks, and the dividend investors who track ex-dates.

When it runs

Companies announce splits and dividend changes with earnings, ex-dividend dates fall two to four weeks later, and tender offers and spin-offs have election deadlines

Scope

SEC 8-K filings and press releases from S&P 500 and Russell 1000 companies; Nasdaq and NYSE corporate action calendars; tender offer and merger proxy filings; Dividend Aristocrat and top-100 dividend payers; brokerage corporate action notices

Suggested task

The objective your Tab starts with. You can edit every line of it once the Tab is yours.

Stock split and reverse split announcements with record and effective dates, dividend initiations, increases, cuts and suspensions at widely held companies, ex-dividend date calendars for the coming two weeks, tender offer and buyback election deadlines, spin-off and merger election deadlines, and special dividends, with the ticker and the date first.

Track corporate actions for US retail investors. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days and the coming 14 days: stock split and reverse split announcements at S&P 500 and Russell 1000 companies with record and effective dates; dividend initiations, increases of 10 percent or more, cuts, suspensions and special dividends at companies with a market cap over $10 billion or on the Dividend Aristocrat list; ex-dividend dates in the next 14 days for the 50 most widely held stocks; tender offer, Dutch auction and buyback election deadlines; and spin-off, merger and rights offering election deadlines. Prefer SEC filings, company press releases and exchange corporate action calendars; ignore rumors and analyst predictions. Put the ticker and the date first in the title. Use high severity for a dividend cut or suspension, a reverse split, or an election deadline within 7 days. Return no more than 10 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for the action, the key dates, what a shareholder must decide, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.