Editas Medicine Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Editas Medicine 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 Editas Medicine Inc (EDIT)
More About Editas Medicine Inc
Editas Medicine, Inc., a clinical stage genome editing company, focuses on developing transformative genomic medicines to treat a range of serious diseases. The company develops a proprietary gene editing platform based on CRISPR technology. It has a research collaboration with Juno Therapeutics, Inc. to develop alpha-beta T-cell experimental medicines for the treatment of solid and liquid tumors. The company was formerly known as Gengine, Inc. and changed its name to Editas Medicine, Inc. in November 2013. Editas Medicine, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Owning Editas Medicine Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Editas Medicine Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Editas Medicine 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 Editas Medicine Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Editas Medicine Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Editas Medicine Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Editas Medicine 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 Editas Medicine Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Editas Medicine Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Editas Medicine 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 Editas Medicine Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Editas Medicine Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Editas Medicine 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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