Aflac Incorporated Dividends
The next dividend date for Aflac Incorporated has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for Aflac Incorporated (AFL)
| 05/20/2026 | 04/27/2026 | 05/20/2026 | 06/01/2026 | $0.61 |
| 02/18/2026 | 11/11/2025 | 02/18/2026 | 03/02/2026 | $0.61 |
| 11/19/2025 | 11/04/2025 | 11/19/2025 | 12/01/2025 | $0.58 |
| 08/20/2025 | 08/05/2025 | 08/20/2025 | 09/02/2025 | $0.58 |
| 05/21/2025 | 04/30/2025 | 05/21/2025 | 06/02/2025 | $0.58 |
| 02/19/2025 | 12/02/2024 | 02/19/2025 | 03/03/2025 | $0.58 |
| 11/20/2024 | 10/30/2024 | 11/20/2024 | 12/02/2024 | $0.50 |
| 08/21/2024 | 07/31/2024 | 08/21/2024 | 09/02/2024 | $0.50 |
| 05/21/2024 | 05/01/2024 | 05/22/2024 | 06/03/2024 | $0.50 |
| 02/20/2024 | 11/01/2023 | 02/21/2024 | 03/01/2024 | $0.50 |
More About Aflac Incorporated
Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates in two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers cancer, medical, nursing care, whole life, and GIFT insurance products, as well as WAYS and child endowment, and Tsumitasu insurance products in Japan. Its Aflac U.S. segment provides accident, disability, cancer, critical illness, hospital indemnity, dental, vision, and life insurance products in the United States. The company also provides hearing, final expense, pet, Medicare supplement, supplemental dental and vision, short-term disability, and absence management insurance products, as well as cafeteria plans. It sells its products to individuals, families, and business owners through individual, independent corporate, and affiliated corporate agencies; banks; independent associates/career agents; and brokers. Aflac Incorporated was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.
Owning Aflac Incorporated Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Aflac Incorporated stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Aflac Incorporated stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Aflac Incorporated stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Aflac Incorporated stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Aflac Incorporated dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Aflac Incorporated Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Aflac Incorporated stock price from the dividend is already baked into Aflac Incorporated option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Aflac Incorporated ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Aflac Incorporated ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Aflac Incorporated call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Aflac Incorporated put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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