Charter Communications Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Charter Communications Inc 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 Charter Communications Inc (CHTR)
More About Charter Communications Inc
Charter Communications, Inc. operates as a broadband connectivity and cable operator company serving residential and commercial customers in the United States. The company offers subscription-based internet, video, and mobile and voice services; a suite of broadband connectivity services, including fixed internet, WiFi, and mobile; advanced WiFi services; Spectrum internet products; in-home WiFi, which provides customers with high performance wireless routers and managed WiFi services to enhance their wireless internet experience; and out-of-home WiFi and Spectrum WiFi services. It also offers wireline voice communications services using voice over internet protocol technology; and broadband communications solutions, such as internet access, data networking, fiber connectivity, video entertainment, and business telephone services to cellular towers and office buildings for business and carrier organizations. In addition, the company provides mobile services; Audience App to create data-driven linear TV campaigns for local advertisers; and video programming, static IP and business WiFi, voice, and e-mail and security services, as well as sells local advertising across various platforms for networks, such as TBS, CNN, and ESPN; and advertising inventory to local sports and news channels. Further, it offers communications products and managed service solutions; data connectivity services to mobile and wireline carriers on a wholesale basis; and Spectrum community solutions that delivers broadband connectivity solutions to apartments, single-family gated communities, off-campus student housing, senior residences, and RV parks and marinas, as well as owns and operates regional sports networks and news channels. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
Owning Charter Communications Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Charter Communications Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Charter Communications Inc stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Charter Communications Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Charter Communications Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Charter Communications Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Charter Communications Inc 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 Charter Communications Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Charter Communications Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Charter Communications Inc ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Charter Communications Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Charter Communications Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Charter Communications Inc put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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