17 Oct 2019 We go over how dividend payouts are calculated, paid and taxed. Changes in dividend payments can signal financial distress to investors and hurt a company's stock price. As a result, their stock price dropped by 7%. 19 Jun 2018 Given this, and all other things being equal, this means the stock price will fall by the amount of the next dividend payment on the ex-dividend date. Let's say a company declares, on 5th August (the declaration date), that the This means that the stock dividend is paid every year in the port, thus, the dividend yield in the port is also consistent. As a result, stock prices will rise since the more expensive the stock is, the lesser the return on dividends is. From the above examples, although both stock ABC and XYZ pay the dividend at 2 baht, but stock XYZ has a higher dividend yield rate because it has a lower stock price.