- No, an investor will not get the dividend if he buys the stock on record date.
- An investor can be qualified for dividends only if he holds the stock in their demat account on the ex-date/record date of the dividend issue.To know more about this, see Basics about dividends
- Therefore, the stock purchase should be made at least one day before the ex-date/record date to ensure that the delivery of the stocks into the demat account is done by the record date.( as all the deliveries in demat a/c is received by T + 1 day).
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