Re: [GNC] Negative stock dividend

2024-10-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 10/5/2024 11:36 AM, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote: How does a negative dividend work? I've never heard of one. Does the company force shareholders to pay more money to keep their shares? ⁣David T. ​ Well I suspect this is a terminology matter. Dividend probably the wrong term. Here

Re: [GNC] Negative stock dividend

2024-10-05 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
Actually, now that you describe it, I've had many such transactions, although the brokerage called them "adjustments". I've always just entered them the same as other dividends, with the amounts reversed. It's never caused any problems. ⁣David T. ​ On Oct 5, 2024, 7:19 PM, at 7:19 PM, R Losey

Re: [GNC] Negative stock dividend

2024-10-05 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
How does a negative dividend work? I've never heard of one. Does the company force shareholders to pay more money to keep their shares? ⁣David T. ​ On Oct 5, 2024, 5:51 PM, at 5:51 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote: >Will Gnucash work with a stock dividend that is negative? >

Re: [GNC] Negative stock dividend

2024-10-05 Thread R Losey
Wow. Amazing. The online articles only talk about a negative yield. On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:04 AM Fred Tydeman wrote: > The actual dividend is negative. Money is taken from my cash account. > On 9/27 a positive dividend was paid (I got money). > On 10/2 a negative dividend was "paid" (I had

Re: [GNC] Negative stock dividend

2024-10-05 Thread Fred Tydeman
The actual dividend is negative. Money is taken from my cash account. On 9/27 a positive dividend was paid (I got money). On 10/2 a negative dividend was "paid" (I had money taken from me) On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 5:57 PM R Losey wrote: > While there is such a thing as a "negative stock dividend

Re: [GNC] Negative stock dividend

2024-10-05 Thread R Losey
While there is such a thing as a "negative stock dividend", it is a term for when a company pays a dividend even though they they lost money -- that is, their net income was negative. This makes the dividend yield negative, not the actual dividend. In reality, the dividend itself is still a paid d

Re: [GNC] Negative stock dividend

2024-10-05 Thread Ken Farley
I don't know, why don't you just try it? If it works it works, if you get an error it doesn't. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/g