Dividend stocks: Vedanta, Ultratech among 100 stocks to trade ex-dividend next week. Do you own any?

As many as 99 companies have fixed their record dates this week for the purpose of determining the eligible shareholders for the payout of their dividends.

Out of the lot, 5 are Nifty companies, i.e, Ultratech Cement, Maruti Suzuki, Cipla, Divi’s Laboratories and Hero Motocorp. Other names include companies like Vedanta, Oberoi Realty, Sundaram Finance etc.

Dividends are paid to shareholders whose names appear in the company's database on the record date. After implementation of the T+1 framework, the record date and ex-date are the same in most cases unless there is a market holiday after the ex-date.

Shareholders who buy the stock at least one day before the ex-date are eligible for dividends as settlement happens the next day. Those buying the stock on the ex-date are not eligible for dividends.

Here is a list of stocks that are trading on an ex-dividend basis this week:

Monday, July 29

Deepak Nitrite (final dividend of Rs 7.5 per share), Info Edge (India) (dividend of Rs 120), Automotive Axles (dividend of Rs 32), Birla Corporation (dividend of Rs 10), Career Point (dividend of Rs 1), D.B. Corp (dividend of Rs 7), EIH Associated Hotels (dividend of Rs 6), Fairchem Organics (dividend of Rs 7.5), Hawkins Cookers (dividend of Rs 120), Orient Cement (dividend of Rs 1.5) and Shreyans Industries (final dividend of Rs 3 and a special dividend of Rs 2).

Tuesday, July 30

Avanti Feeds (dividend of Rs 6.75), Banswara Syntex (dividend of Rs 1), Brigade Enterprises (dividend of Rs 2), BSL (dividend of Re 1), Cravatex (dividend of Rs 3), Fidel Softech (dividend of Rs 1.1), Granules (dividend of Rs 1.5), Kokuyo Camlin (dividend of Rs 0.5), Orient Bell (dividend of Rs 0.5), Pecos Hotels and Pubs (dividend of Rs 3), Standard Industries (dividend of Rs 0.55) and Ultratech Cement (dividend of Rs 70).

Wednesday, July 31

Aarti Pharmalabs (dividend of Rs 1), ABM Knowledgeware (dividend ofRs 1.25), Bata India (dividend of Rs 12), Centum Electronics (dividend of Rs 3), CRISIL (dividend of Rs 8), DLF (dividend of Rs 5), EIH Ltd (dividend of Rs 1.2 per share), HEG Ltd (dividend of Rs 22.5), Igarashi Motors India (dividend of Re 1), Kamdhenu (dividend of Rs 2), Saksoft (dividend of Rs 0.4), Simplex Realty (dividend of Re 1), SRF (dividend of Rs 3.6), Steelcast (dividend of Rs 3.15), Sundaram Finance (dividend of Rs 16) and Sunshield Chemicals (dividend of Rs 1.2).

Thursday, August 1

Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC (dividend of Rs 13.5), Bayer CropScience (Dividend of Rs 35), Dis India (dividend of Rs 100), Emkay Global Financial Services (dividend of Rs 1.5), Esab India (dividend of Rs 30), Hero Motocorp (dividend of Rs 40), IVP Ltd (dividend of Re 1), Karur Vysya Bank (dividend of Rs 2.4), Kirloskar Oil Engines (dividend of Rs 3.5 per share), Kovai Medical Center & Hospital (dividend of Rs 10 per share), KPT Industries (dividend of Rs 2.5), MPS Ltd (dividend of Rs 45), Nava Ltd (dividend of Rs 4), Oberoi Realty (dividend of Rs 2), Permanent Magnets (dividend of Rs 1.8), Tasty Bite Eatables (dividend of Rs 2) and Tips Industries (dividend of Rs 2 per share).

Friday, August 2

ADC India Communications (final dividend of Rs 5 and a special dividend of Rs 25), Ajmera Realty & Infra India (dividend of Rs 4), Albert David (dividend of Rs 11.5), Allied Digital Services (dividend of Rs 1.5), AVT Natural Products (dividend of Rs 0.5), BDH Industries (dividend of Rs 4.5), Bengal Tea & Fabrics (dividend of Re 1), Bhagiradha Chemicals & Industries (dividend of Rs 0.1), Bigbloc Construction, (dividend of Rs 0.4), CE Info Systems (dividend of Rs 3.5), Cello World (dividend of Rs 3.5), Cholamandalam Financial Holdings (dividend of Rs 0.55), Cipla (dividend of Rs 13), Coforge (interim dividend of Rs 19), Coromandel Agro Products & Oils (dividend of Re 1), Divi's Laboratories (dividend of Rs 30), Everest Industries (dividend of Rs 2.5), Flex Foods (dividend of Rs 0.5), Gloster (dividenf of Rs 20), GMM Pfaudler (dividend of Re 1), HB Stockholdings (dividend of Rs 1.5), Indigo Paints (dividend of Rs 3.5), Jubilant Ingrevia (dividend of Rs 2.5), Jubilant Pharmova (dividend of Rs 5), Jupiter Life Line Hospitals (dividend of Re 1), Keltech Energies (dividend of Rs 1.5), Lakshmi Electrical Control Systems (dividend of Rs 15), Mangalam Worldwide (dividend of Re 1), Maruti Suzkuki India (dividend of Rs 125), Matrimony.com (dividend of Rs 5), Mindteck (India)(dividend of Re 1), Monarch Networth Capital (dividend of Re 1), Munjal Showa (dividend of Rs 4.5), Narayana Hrudayalaya (dividend of Rs 4), Sahyadri Industries (dividend of Re 1), Sharda Cropchem (dividend of Rs 3), Share India Securities (dividend of Rs 0.4), Shilchar Technologies (dividend of Rs 12.5), Shri Dinesh Mills (final dividend of Rs 10 ad a special dividend of Rs 20), TVS Electronics (dividend of Re 1), Wim Plast (dividend of Rs 10) and WPIL (dividend of Rs 20).

Saturday, August 3

Vedanta (dividend of Rs 4)

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