Escalade, Inc. this morning on our DividendChannel.com Dividend Alert service (a free email alert feature). A “Potential Dividend Run Alert” was issued for (NASD: ESCA). Let’s look at the situation in more detail, shall we?
First of all, what is a “dividend run” anyway? This is an interesting concept that we first learned about at the last ValueForum conference. And to best explain this concept, we need to start with the expected behavior of a stock. ex dividend date.
For anyone unfamiliar with this term, ex-dividend date Marks the trading day when no purchasers of the stock are entitled to the dividend referred to – in other words, to be eligible to receive the dividend in question, one must purchase their shares. First Ex-dividend date.
All else being equal, the expected stock price will be decline in dividend amount on that East-Date (remember, this is “all else being equal” and naturally other factors will drive the stock up/down on any given day). But think about it: If a buyer is entitled to a 0.152 dividend First The time limit has expired, but he is no longer entitled to that amount on or after old date, so this drop makes perfect sense! Because if share was not Then, the next day it decreased by the same 0.152 EffectivelyBuyers will effectively pay 0.152 More For equal shares of stock.
but now think it: If a stock is expected drop By dividend amount (all else equal) But ex-date, so in turn, should that stock not be expected to Rise Sometimes Ahead Of dividends? After all, if a dividend-paying stock never rises and only falls each ex-date, eventually those shares will have fallen to zero after enough dividend payments. And He will not make Any The meaning of a company consistently making money and paying dividends. So really, “sometimes” First For any given dividend, there must be some kind of built-in “pressure” on a stock to grow slowly in anticipation of the next cash dividend… in other words: pressure on the stock to hold potential. dividend run.
And notice that we put the word “some time” in quotation marks in that last sentence, because there are different views about it among different dividend investors. set time limit When it comes to capturing dividend run effects. Some people like to invest (and then sell) on specific target dates; Others prefer to use some type of dollar cost averaging. Some people like to invest shortly before the ex-div, hold for the dividend, and then sell on or after the ex-date (actually capturing the dividend/receiving the income). Others like to sell the day First Ex-date (the last possible day where the buyer of shares will still “pay” for the upcoming dividend) with a view to trying to maximize capital gains. In this capital-gains-focused scenario, a common timeframe we have seen discussed is to buy approximately two weeks (ten trading days) before the targeted sell date.
For example, consider the $0.153/share ESCA dividend which went “ex-dividend” on 04/06/26. On the last trading day – the last day when the seller knows a buyer of their shares will be expecting that dividend amount – ESCA shares closed at 18.21. and two weeks (ten business days) in advance HeShares closed at a price of $17.71 on 03/19/26. This means that ESCA’s price increased by 0.50 in the last two weeks, up to a dividend of 0.153.
Looking at the last four dividends paid by ESCA, this strategy would have generated capital gains greater than the dividends 4 out of 4 times, giving a total of +2.51 of the “Divy Run” in capital gains. Coincidentally, he is more than grand total dividend The amount of those last four dividends is 0.603. Here is the data:
| ex dividend | ——price 2 weeks ago—» | ——price 1 day ago—» | run profit/loss | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/06/26 | 0.153 | 03/19/26 | 17.71 | 04/02/26 | 18.21 | +0.50 |
| 01/05/26 | 0.15 | 12/17/25 | 13.05 | 01/02/26 | 13.69 | +0.64 |
| 10/06/25 | 0.15 | 09/19/25 | 12.54 | 10/03/25 | 12.73 | +0.19 |
| 07/07/25 | 0.15 | 06/18/25 | 13.80 | 07/03/25 | 14.98 | +1.18 |
| Division Total: | 0.603 | “Dewey Run” total: | +2.51 | |||
In about two weeks from now, Escalade, Inc. (NASD:ESCA) will go ex-dividend at its latest dividend of $0.152/share. Will the history of dividend runs repeat itself?
Upcoming dividend: 0.152/share
Pre-Div Date: 07/06/26
Payment Date: 07/13/26
Dividend Frequency: Quarterly
Full ESCA Dividend History »
As the saying goes, past performance is never a guarantee of future returns. But one thing is certain: For investors who count a dividend run among the tools in their arsenal, ESCA is a good dividend stock to know about and keep on your radar screen with an implied annual yield of 3.27%.
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