Dividend Payments

[cprice72]

Here is another amateur investor question for you.

Do companies with dividend paying stocks anounce when they are going to pay dividends?

[KAPLOWD]

Yes. It's called the Ex-Dividend Date. Yahoo has it under key statistics. Here an example for IBM, http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM

The Ex-Dividend Date is the date you have to own the stock in order to receive that dividend.

[cyoa1fan]

The EFA what the I fund is based on is payed out around christmas. So where is our share of the dividends?
Butch