Boston Scientific Corp Dividends
The next dividend date for Boston Scientific Corp 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 Boston Scientific Corp (BSX)
More About Boston Scientific Corp
Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices for use in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. It operates in two segments, MedSurg and Cardiovascular. The company offers devices to diagnose and treat a range of gastrointestinal conditions, such as resolution clips, biliary stent systems, stents and electrocautery enhanced delivery systems, direct visualization systems, digital catheters, and single-use duodenoscopes, as well as endoluminal surgery and infection prevention portfolios; devices to treat urological conditions, including ureteral stents, catheters, baskets, guidewires, urinary and bowel dysfunction, sheaths, balloons, single-use digital flexible ureteroscopes, holmium laser systems, penile implants, artificial urinary sphincter, laser system, and hydrogel systems; and devices to treat neurological movement disorders and manage chronic pain, such as spinal cord stimulator systems, proprietary programming software, radiofrequency ablation, indirect decompression systems, and intraosseous nerve ablation and deep brain stimulation systems. It also provides technologies for diagnosing and treating coronary artery disease and aortic valve conditions; WATCHMAN FLX, a left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) device; and implantable devices that monitor the heart and deliver electricity to treat cardiac abnormalities, such as cardioverter and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators, MRI S-ICD systems, cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers, quadripolar LV leads, ICD leads, pacing leads, remote patient management systems, insertable cardiac monitor systems, and remote cardiac monitoring systems. In addition, the company offers diagnosis and treatment of rate and rhythm disorders of the heart; peripheral arterial and venous diseases; and products to diagnose, treat, and ease forms of cancer. The company was incorporated in 1979 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Owning Boston Scientific Corp Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Boston Scientific Corp stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Boston Scientific Corp stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Boston Scientific Corp stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Boston Scientific Corp stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Boston Scientific Corp dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Boston Scientific Corp 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 Boston Scientific Corp stock price from the dividend is already baked into Boston Scientific Corp option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Boston Scientific Corp ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Boston Scientific Corp ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Boston Scientific Corp call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Boston Scientific Corp put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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