Simon Property Group stock heads into the open after a 0.3% gain

At the close on September 8, 2026, Simon Property Group stock finished at USD 210.01 on the NYSE, up 0.27% from the prior session. The move came as investors weighed its upcoming September 9, 2026 ex-dividend date and removal from the S&P 100 index.

Simon Property Group stock closed at USD 210.01 on the New York Stock Exchange on September 8, 2026, gaining 0.27% from the prior close of USD 209.44 per NYSE quotation data. The advance left the shares trading modestly below their recent 52-week high, while the broader S&P 500 slipped on the day according to US market wrap data, underscoring the relative resilience of the stock ahead of today’s ex-dividend date.

September 8, 2026 in numbers

Simon Property Group Inc. (ISIN US8288061091, NYSE: SPG) saw its shares change hands around USD 210 on September 8, 2026, with intraday trading centered near the closing level reported at USD 210.01, up USD 0.57 or 0.27% from the previous closing price of USD 209.44 based on MEXC’s NYSE quotation overview cited in an Ad-hoc-news briefing. According to the same market data snapshot, the session’s modest gain came as the stock traded a little more than 12 percent below a 52-week high of USD 238.50 highlighted in an analysis by Barchart, which noted that the shares had slipped 12.2% from that late July peak. In that context, the roughly 0.3% rise on September 8, 2026 contrasted with broader US equity benchmarks, as the S&P 500 fell 0.58% and the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.31% on the same date according to a US market wrap published by Economic Times, indicating a day of modest outperformance for the real estate investment trust’s shares.

Ex-dividend and index change in focus today

Today, Simon Property Group is due to trade ex-dividend, with holders of record receiving a cash dividend of USD 2.25 per share later in the month, a distribution level confirmed by a dividend notice citing that stockholders of record on September 9, 2026 will be issued a USD 2.25 dividend per share, as outlined in a report on institutional holdings from MarketBeat. A separate notice on the Moomoo market news feed, summarized by Moomoo, similarly states that Simon Property is scheduled to go ex-dividend on September 9, 2026, with a cash payment of USD 2.25 per share slated for later in the month, giving income-oriented investors a clear corporate event to monitor in today’s session. In addition, the stock is facing an upcoming change in its index status, as an index rebalancing briefing from Worthbury reported that Simon Property Group will be removed from the S&P 100 index on September 21, 2026, alongside another large-cap constituent, in S&P Dow Jones Indices’ quarterly rebalancing, a shift that may influence how some index-tracking funds position around the shares in the coming sessions.