>>I would think that would already considered/priced in by Institutes...<<
I don't think so. Pricing in the short term has very little to do with what the institutional traders think. I wrote two business writers, one from The Street and the other from a local paper. Both wrote back, thanked me, and said they never looked at the dividend distribution that way in the effect it would have on MSFT shares.
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