DRIP Transaction Download from E*Trade - Commission and 2 Register Entries
Ever since the Morgan Stanley conversions the DRIP (dividend reinvestment program) transactions now come as 2 separate transactions (Dividend and Bought) instead of a single Reinvested Dividends. Also, the Bought transactions show a commission charge.
Annoying to have 2x the number of transactions and unclear if the commission charge is really there.
Anyone else seeing this and have you reported it to E*trade or Quicken Tech Suport?
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I'm going to guess that the change to Div - Bought is because there is a commission associated with the DRIP.
Years and years ago I had an Etrade account and there was a commission associated with a DRIP I'd established, though it didn't come through expressly as a commission, it came through as an invisible adjustment in the actual purchase price. In this case the DRIP had been established not with Etrade but with the subject company itself so I could see the difference. One of the reasons I left Etrade. Maybe MS is just being more honest about the situation and showing you the commission.
Easy way to figure this out: call Etrade/MS and ask.
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They say there is no fee for DRIPs.
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"In most cases, DRIP purchases are free from commissions"
I'd still call and ask about your specific case. If there is no commission in your case then you'll have to talk to Official Quicken Support to see why you're seeing what you're seeing.
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There's no commission - I checked. Still interested if others are seeing the same thing in their E*Trade DRIP transactions.
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Yeah, I've been seeing the exact same thing the past couple of months. Really started around 1 month after the Morgan Stanley transfer once all the Dividend Record dates were now at Morgan Stanley.
But if you look at the buy transaction, I do see a couple cents worth of commission per transaction.
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If there's really and truly no commission in these transactions - but maybe a "fee" of some sort that gets plunked into the commission bucket? - then it's time to talk to Official Quicken Support.
Some DRIP programs offer a small discount, some DRIP programs use "average price" on the day of purchase, some use EOD prices, so before calling Official Quicken Support I'd make sure of exactly how this DRIP works if it's offered by the issuing company or how Etrade does things, mechanically, in the DRIP program if they're the ones doing the dividend reinvestment program. Obviously that cost must be floating around in Etrade's computers somewhere; I don't think Quicken is the driver here.
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Has anyone checked the basic equation ?
Shares x price + commission = amount
I am suspicious that Quicken (or someone) is forcing that commission in rather than adjusting the price.
What price is being used in Quicken as compared to what shows from the brokerage?
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It would also be helpful to clarify if this is a company-administered and company-sponsored DRIP or if it's actually an Etrade offer to "reinvest dividends."
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@Tom Young at least for me, this is NOT a company admin / sponsored DRIP. My situation is straight Etrade dividend re-investment
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Interestingly this happens for me only one some DRIP activity. Attached snapshot shows Div/Bought for PAYC, and ReinvDiv for TGT.
Given the earlier comments, my guess would be that Quicken is taking the share count, price, and total from the download, and when there's a discrepancy it is dropping th
at discrepancy into the commission field, and when there is no discrepancy, it's posting a simpler ReinvDiv instead.
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I noticed the same thing on Fri. My divs for IP follow the Div / Bought pattern, while my div for KO was a straight re-investment
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It would be helpful for more people to report this to E-Trade/Morgan Stanley web tech support. I suspect it is something that has happened after the DRIP was folded into Morgan Stanley operations/process. I am guessing they are sending bad data to Quicken with the two transactions. It used to be so much easier when E-Trade sent a single Reinv transaction. Still better than the 3 transactions that Merrill Lynch sends for DRIPs. 😠
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It is strictly the E-Trade DRIP. You can specify in each account which securities you want to have dividends reinvested.
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