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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: fractional shares
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:44:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.224423.11917@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: DRIP,
- References: <1993Jan27.204206.16294@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan27.204206.16294@eos.arc.nasa.gov> brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody ) writes:
- >I have always believed in reinvesting dividends. However, if one buys
- >an even lot of 100 shares of a stock and then reivests dividends
- >producing something like 116.035, do those extra 16.035 shares make it
- >a pain or expensive to sell? Would it be better to just take the
- >dividends as cash?
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- If you get out of the DRIP the company will automatically cash in
- the .035 sh for you, so no pain. (f you are selling all shares at
- that time, the numbers are easy to work with. If not, you might
- get a 1099B for the fractional sh and have to calculate the
- gain/loss. Most plans also allow you to ask the company to sell
- some small number of shares for you, so the 16 sh could be sold at
- very low commission.
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- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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