Apple stock to trade ex-dividend within days

Simply Wall St:Apple Inc. stock is about to trade ex-dividend in 3 days time. You can purchase shares before the 9th of August in order to receive the dividend, which the company will pay on the 15th of August. Apple’s next dividend payment will be US$0.77 per share, on the back of last year when the company paid a total of US$3.08 to shareholders.
Dividends are usually paid out of company profits, so if a company pays out more than it earned then its dividend is usually at greater risk of