{"id":43815,"date":"2026-05-21T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/43815\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:25:19","slug":"lg-rolls-and-bae-lead-fallers-as-shares-go-ex-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/43815\/","title":{"rendered":"L&G, Rolls and BAE lead fallers as shares go ex-dividend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"L&G, L&G, Rolls and BAE lead fallers as shares go ex-dividend Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock <\/p>\n

Fallers on the FTSE 100 were led by\u00a0Legal & General Group PLC (LSE:LGEN)<\/a>, BAE Systems PLC (LSE:BA.)<\/a>\u00a0and Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (LSE:RR.)<\/a>\u00a0as their shares\u00a0traded ex-dividend.<\/p>\n

Seven blue-chips went ex-dividend,\u00a0creating a combined 9.87 point drag on the index, with other names\u00a0including Hiscox, Fresnillo, Spirax Group and Rightmove.<\/p>\n

When a stock goes ex-dividend, it means new buyers are no longer entitled to the upcoming payout. The dividend has effectively been \u201cdetached\u201d from the share, so the price typically falls by a similar amount at the open to reflect that value being returned to shareholders.<\/p>\n

This mechanical adjustment explains why indices often appear weaker on heavy ex-dividend days, even if underlying trading is unchanged.<\/p>\n

Legal & General and BAE account for the largest single impacts, reflecting both their relatively high dividend payments and their weighting in the index.<\/p>\n

The next big ex-divs to watch in coming weeks are\u00a0RELX PLC (LSE:REL)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Glencore PLC (LSE:GLEN)<\/a>\u00a0on 7 May,\u00a0when they will have a combined 6.4-point impact on the index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L&G, Rolls and BAE lead fallers as shares go ex-dividend Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Fallers on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21224],"tags":[21234,8160,22202,22201,21966],"class_list":["post-43815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bae","tag-bae","tag-bae-systems","tag-by-legal-general-group-plc","tag-ex-dividend","tag-rolls-royce-holdings-plc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116612085957578573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}