 How's going on guys right? It's Mark and I'm back with another eToro tutorial Where today I'm basically just gonna go about what a dividend is Does eToro pay dividends? How much does a company pay in dividends? And how to find that and how to see it in your account basically So I'll go over all those things and as always if you have any question about any questions about any of those You can reach me in the comments or you can reach me in Instagram which will sort of links in the description and that sort of stuff so First of all, what is a dividend? So a dividend is basically it's pretty straightforward It's basically just the the profits that a company pays out to its shareholders So if you own shares in the company, you're a shareholder and if they pay dividends or payout profits then you'll get a small portion of that depending on What what they're willing to pay out basically Does eToro pay dividends? Yes, it does It pays dividends obviously depending on the companies that you're investing in if you're investing in companies that don't pay dividends And eToro is not gonna pay you anything, right? So That should be pretty self-explanatory, but I thought I just clear that up Another question is when do you get the dividend payment from eToro? So that will depend obviously on company to company They follow a basic timeline so a basic dividend timeline is going to be your declaration date the ex-dividend date the record date and the payment date so Declaration date is basically the company's Board of Directors get together and they say this is what the evidence is going to be and then they'll probably announce the timeline from there So for the ex-dividend date Etc. So the ex-dividend date is pretty important. So that's something you want to pay attention to it's Basically, you have to have the stock before That date you have to own the stock before that date to be paid With eToro if you have a cfd position. So basically anything that's leveraged for the most part as a general rule of thumb You'll get paid the dividend to your available balance on the ex-dividend date If you have a real asset You have to own the stock for two business days Before the ex-dividend date So if the ex-dividend date is a friday, you'd have to own it by the wednesday wednesday first. Yeah friday for example sake so that's that and then with the Record date, you know the company best at you just checks to use Entitled to the dividend and then the payment date is when it's paid, which is usually about a month after Everything's been announced As I said, but if you have a cfd on eToro, then you'll get the dividend to your available balance on The ex-dividend date if you have the real asset You have to wait until the payment date And dividends are also typically paid once every quarter. So once every three months you can usually expect to be paid some kind of dividend And so just for your own reference sake, so if you are interested in Creating like a dividend type portfolio First of all, a higher dividend isn't always necessarily the best, right? So if there's a company that's paying like 10 percent Dividend yield which Dividend yield is basically just the annual dividend divided by the current share price So if the shares down then the yield can be higher, right? Because the share price will be Lower so you'll get more bang for your buck if that makes sense Um, but yeah, just because the the dividend yield is higher. So if it's like 10 percent or something like that It's not necessarily a good thing. So you might want to look into Um, the company behind it. Um, another thing for reference is established companies tend to pay dividends versus um, growth companies. So for example Um, things like Microsoft apple, um, that sort of stuff will Pay dividends whereas Something like tesla for example Um Doesn't I'll check. I'm pretty sure they don't I'm just because they're reinvesting all of their money into growing the company and expanding And that sort of thing. So, um, that'll bring us on to the next thing. How do you check on eToro? How much a company is paying in dividends? So Let's look at tesla just for reference sake and it's booming right now. So We'll have a look Um, so you'll go on the stock. So if you've got it in your portfolio, you can check it here And You got feed stats chart research, right on anything on the most stocks on the toro You want to go on to stats? Um, and then they've got a little thing here that says dividend yield Um, so you can see the dividend yield on this is zero percent. So you won't get any dividends from this But if you look at something like apple Um, and then you go on their page and you go on stats You can see their dividend yield is 0.66 percent. So basically, um over a year period You'll get 0.66 percent based on this current share price um of whatever you invest so Where does that show up in eToro? So If you have a look so you can filter this so you see this fee section, right? um, this Is your dividend payment if you can't see this if you go to this little wheel here You can change what shows up. So if you clicked on that, for example It gives you a whole bunch of different options and then obviously select fees and put that in there So i'm gonna filter for my dividends So none of those so you can see fires is paid 7.22 dollars Uh, that's paid 4.83 dollars and so on and so forth. Um, so that's what i've received in dividends now Just wanted to freeze that here for a second. Um, this is the editing version of me. So, um, yep, that's correct. So the Dividends once the company pays them out, you'll be able to see them Individually in the fees column Um, but the dividend also goes into your available balance So you can buy stocks of it you can withdraw if there's enough for you to withdraw It basically just it's like you deposited money. Um, the inverse is Also true. So again, if you have a sell position on itoro and you're accountable for the inverse They will deduct the dividend from your available balance. So it'll be minus Itoro if you're if you have a buy position, um, then you're entitled to to all of the All all all of the dividends, whether it's a cfd or a Real asset so cfd is basically if you're leveraging it, it's going to be a cfd And if it's times one that it's going to be a real asset Um, so you're entitled to the dividend if you if you have a sell position If you don't know the difference between a buy and a sell position Um, i'll link a video that i've done before um with that But if you have a sell position, right, so you're betting against the company If the dividends get released and you hold a sell position You will be liable to pay The dividend, right? So if they paid out for example, $7.22 here This would actually be minus $7.22 and that would be deducted from your available balance on itoro because you're betting against the company so you need to um Kind of like subsidize that basically Yeah, I think that's everything I think that clears up The whole I mean, I think if I had a pound for every time I said dividend in this video, I'd Be able to retire. So that's the thing. Um, I hope that clears it up If you have any questions or anything doesn't make any sense As I say hit me up. Let me know. I'll try and explain it a little bit better. Um, and yeah, if you enjoyed the video Give it a thumbs up subscribe if you want more um content like this uh, yeah subscribe if you want more content like this and Um, share if you found it helpful. So there you go. Thanks for watching and I will catch you guys some other time