Benzinga | Jan 20, 2022 09:48AM EST

Community Health Systems: Dividend Insights

Monday marks the last chance for investors to receive the next dividend payout from Community Health Systems.

What's Happening

(NYSE:CYH) announced on Wednesday that it would pay shareholders a monthly dividend of $0.072 per share. On Tuesday, Community Health Systems will go ex-dividend, meaning the stock will trade lower to reflect that payout. In other words, the stock will likely open $0.072 lower than it would have opened on any other day.

In order to be eligible to receive a company's dividend, shareholders must own the stock prior to the ex-dividend datein this case, Tuesday. Shareholders who own CYH as of the end of Monday's session are eligible to receive the $0.072 dividend payout for every share that they own.

According to the company, this dividend will be paid out to shareholders on January 31, 2022. Investors will then be able to either reinvest those dividends back into the stock or use the payment in some other way.

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