Dividend is not “free money” from a company.

When a company pays a dividend, part of the business value is effectively transferred to shareholders as a payout.

That’s why I don’t look at a high dividend yield separately from the ex-dividend date and the stock price itself.

For example, if a share costs $100 and a dividend of $5 is announced, it looks like a 5% yield.

But if, after the ex-dividend date, the price drops by roughly the amount of the payout, the mechanism looks completely different.

For bStock, I would check four things:

— the dividend amount;
— the ex-dividend date;
— who actually receives the payout for the product;
— how the corporate action is reflected in the token.

The last point is especially important.

Tokenized exposure to a share doesn’t automatically mean that all the owner’s rights are fully identical to direct ownership of the share.

So “a 5% dividend” for me is only the beginning of the investigation, not a final yield.

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