SGX Stocks Calendar

How to read this calendar

Each entry is a dividend announcement filed by an SGX-listed company, placed on the calendar under the date it was announced. Use the Ex-Dividend Schedules toggle above to switch the same data onto ex-dates instead — the two are different questions, and the distinction is the one that costs people money.

Announcement date, ex-date, record date, payment date

A company announces a dividend first, often alongside its results. The ex-dividend date is the one that decides who gets paid: buy on or after the ex-date and the dividend belongs to the seller, not to you. The record date follows a day or two later and is when the registrar takes its list of holders. The payment date is when the cash actually arrives, typically two to six weeks after that. On SGX the gap between announcement and payment is routinely a month or more, so a stock is not "paying next week" merely because the announcement appeared this week.

What the price does on the ex-date

A share normally opens on its ex-date lower by roughly the dividend, because the buyer no longer receives it. That drop is not a loss and not a sell signal — it is the dividend leaving the share price. It is also why a stock screener showing a sudden one-day fall in early May, when many Singapore banks and REITs go ex, is usually showing you an ex-date rather than bad news. On Market at a Glance a counter trading ex-dividend that day is marked xd, and one with an announced ex-date still ahead is marked cd.

Interim, final, special — and why the yield moves

Most Singapore companies pay twice a year: an interim dividend with the half-year results and a final dividend with the full-year results, the latter usually subject to approval at the AGM. A special dividend is one-off — a disposal gain or excess capital — and should not be annualised. REITs and business trusts usually distribute quarterly or half-yearly and call it a distribution (DPU) rather than a dividend. This matters when reading any trailing yield, including the GrYld % column on this site: it sums the last twelve months of actual payments, so a special dividend inflates it and a company that has just cut will still show the old, higher figure for a year.

Tax, and what to verify

Singapore operates a one-tier corporate tax system, so dividends from Singapore-resident companies are not taxed in the hands of the shareholder. Foreign-listed counters and some trusts can carry withholding tax at source, which is why a headline yield on a foreign-currency line is not directly comparable to a local one.

Dates here come from SGX announcement filings and are parsed automatically, so treat them as a pointer to the filing rather than the last word: every entry links back to the announcement it came from. Before acting on an ex-date, confirm it against the company's own filing — tell me if you find one wrong and I will fix it.

Everything else an issuer files

Trading halts and suspensions, substantial-shareholder and director dealings, buybacks, placements, rights issues, takeover and delisting notices — anything that is not a meeting, a dividend or a results filing — is published by SGX itself at company announcements, more completely and more currently than a copy here could be.