Dividend capture by buying SPY and shorting IVV?

If your devious dividend capture plan involves you hedging against SPY’s price movements by selling IVV short until after SPY goes ex-dividend you can forget about it. The IVV (Barclays Global) price doesn’t drop by SPY’s dividend amount on SPY’s ex-dividend date. It continues to track the S&P 500 until it goes ex-dividend a few days later. Your master plan will net out with you …

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Next 2025 SPY, VOO, IVV Ex-Dividend Dates and Estimated Dividends

SPY went ex-dividend Friday, June 20th, 2025, with a second-quarter dividend of $1.761 per share. SPY’s next distribution payout will be on July 31st, 2025—yes the SPDR folks take their time delivering the dividend. iShares’ IVV, one of the other two big S&P 500 ETFs, went ex-dividend, on June 16th, with a dividend of $1.876 per share. Vanguard’s VOO will go ex-dividend, I’m estimating, on …

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