Quick Read – Seven community bank stocks share an August 7 ex-dividend date, among them CWBC and FCBC, requiring share ownership by August 6 to collect the August payment. – WSFS Financial screens the strongest for coverage, with TTM EPS of $5.99 easily backing its $0.80…
nualized payout after raising its dividend from $0.17 to $0.20. – Community West Bancshares’ GAAP EPS of ~$0.10 is distorted by merger charges; its non-GAAP earnings of ~$0.45 actually cover the $0.48 annualized dividend. – Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and WSFS Financial didn’t make the cut. Grab the names FREE today
Here’s an alert for income investors with a quick deadline. Seven small-bank dividend stocks all share the same imminent ex-dividend date: Friday, August 7. To collect the August payout on any of them, shares must be owned by the close of Thursday, August 6.
Buy on the ex-date or later, and the payment goes to the seller. Here are the dividend mechanics in plain terms: the ex-dividend date is the eligibility cutoff, so own before it, get paid; buy on it, don’t. Because a stock typically opens lower by an amount close to the dividend on the ex-date, this is about eligibility for a scheduled payment, not free money.