Danaher Corporation Dividends
The next dividend date for Danaher Corporation 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 Danaher Corporation (DHR)
More About Danaher Corporation
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, research, and industrial products and services in the United States, China, and internationally. It operates through Biotechnology, Life Sciences, and Diagnostics segments. The Biotechnology segment offers bioprocessing technologies, consumables, services, and solutions that advance, accelerate, and integrate the development and manufacture of therapeutics; cell line and cell culture media development services; cell culture media, process liquids and buffers for manufacturing, chromatography resins, filtration technologies, and aseptic fill finish; single-use hardware, consumables, and services, such as the design and installation of full manufacturing suites; lab filtration, separation, and purification; lab-scale protein purification and analytical tools; reagents, membranes, and services for diagnostic and assay development; and healthcare filtration solutions. Its Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers; bioanalytical measurement systems; flow cytometry, genomics, lab automation, centrifugation, liquid handling automation instruments, antibodies, and particle counting and characterization; genome sample preparation; microscopes; protein consumables; filtration products; and genomic medicines, such as custom nucleic acid products, and plasmid DNA, RNA, and proteins under the ABCAM, ALDEVRON, BECKMAN COULTER, GENEDATA, IDT, LEICA MICROSYSTEMS, MOLECULAR DEVICES, PALL, PHENOMENEX, and SCIEX brands. The Diagnostics segment offers clinical instruments, consumables, software, and services in the areas of clinical chemistry, immunoassay, hematology, and microbiology for hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories, and other critical care settings. The company has a partnership with AstraZeneca PLC to develop and commercialize diagnostic tools and tests. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher Corporation was founded in 1969 and
Owning Danaher Corporation Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Danaher Corporation stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Danaher Corporation stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Danaher Corporation stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Danaher Corporation stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Danaher Corporation dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Danaher Corporation 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 Danaher Corporation stock price from the dividend is already baked into Danaher Corporation option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Danaher Corporation ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Danaher Corporation ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Danaher Corporation call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Danaher Corporation put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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