Part Three · Practical Setup
Corporate Actions: What Lands in Your Account
What lands in your account — splits, dividends, buybacks, mergers, spin-offs and rights issues.
Companies are not static. They split their shares, pay dividends, buy themselves back, get acquired, spin pieces off, and ask you to subscribe to new ones. Each event hits your broker app or inbox without warning. Nine lessons on what each one means, what changes for you, and which ones actually need you to do something.
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All lessons
- 01Why Corporate Actions Exist
- 02Cash Dividends — The Four Dates That Matter
- 03Stock Splits & Reverse Splits
- 04Stock Dividends & Bonus Issues
- 05Buybacks & Share Repurchases
- 06Mergers & Acquisitions — Cash, Stock, and Mixed Deals
- 07Tender Offers — Accept, Reject, or Ignore
- 08Spin-offs, Carve-outs & Rights Issues
- 09The Corporate Action Playbook
Key terms in this stage
- Acquisition
- Carve-out
- Corporate action
- Cost basis
- Deal spread
- Declaration date
- Default action
- Dilution
- Dividend aristocrat
- Dividend cut
- Dividend trap
- DRIP
- Ex-dividend date
- Merger
- Pay date
- Record date
- Reverse split
- Rights issue
- Share buyback
- Share register
- Shareholder
- Special dividend
- Spin-off
- Stock dividend
- Stock split
- Tender offer