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Dividend Announcements, Ex-dates, and Payment Dates now available in Pipeline
Seong Lee
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We've had a number of folks asking for ways to know about dividend related dates in their research.

I'm happy to say that dividend announcements, ex-dates, and payment dates (along with amounts, quarter-over-quarter changes, and more) from EventVestor are now available in Pipeline.

Attached to this post is an interactive tutorial that will show you how to get started using dividends in your work. All available fields from the dataset can be found there as well.

Also attached to this thread is:

Feel free to post questions here.

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8 responses
Seong Lee

A simple, but informative tool to visualize share prices on the dividend ex-date

Seong Lee

Code snippet that you can modify to avoid trading securities 1 business day before/after a dividend ex-date

Steve Algieri

Hi Seong,

Looking to use the Dividend functions, but the above is currently generating a compile time error. Any ideas what might have broken?

Thanks

Steve

Josh Payne

Hi Steve,

I cloned all of Seong's content here and ran it all.

Generally the data is working -- it looks like the only problem here is the cell in the first notebook that has the line dataset[:3] which is throwing some kind of error and might be a bug. But you can work around that by simply running dataset which will give you the top 10 rows by default. The purpose of that cell in the notebook is to simply show you the data in interactive mode. All of the critical pieces are working and you should be able to use the dividends data in a pipeline.

Thanks
Josh

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Steve Algieri

Thanks Josh,

It wasn't the notebook as such, it was the code snippet below. If I just clone it and run, it gives:

ValueError: Bad response: Computation failed with message: AssertionError: File "/home/databazaar/.venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/blaze/server/server.py", line 643, in compserver

I've tried to use BusinessDaysUntilNextExDate in my own algo's as well, and it produces the same compile error.

Can you confirm that cloning and running the code snippet rather than the notebook runs as expected?

Thanks

Steve

Jamie McCorriston

Hi Steve,

Thanks for reporting the issue. It looks like we have a bug with the EventVestor Dividend dataset preventing it from being loaded in your algorithm. I've notified our engineers. We'll have to get that fixed. Sorry for the trouble.

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Jamie McCorriston

@Steve,

The issue has been fixed. you should now be able to run the notebook + algo. Sorry for the trouble.

Jamie

jeffrey hirschey

Can you confirm that the amounts quoted (next_amount / prev_amount) are the actual quarterly dividend paid and not the annualized yearly payments?

For rows without the next_ex_date field, is there a way to verify those dividends are paid quarterly as is standard? I do not want to incorrectly assume that all these dividends are paid quarterly to calculate the annualized dividend return.

If there's another variable that gives annualized dividend return please let me know!

Thanks,

Jeff

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