Fresenius Medical Care Corporation Dividends
The next dividend date for Fresenius Medical Care 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 Fresenius Medical Care Corporation (FMS)
More About Fresenius Medical Care Corporation
Fresenius Medical Care AG provides dialysis and related services for individuals with renal diseases in Germany, the United States, and internationally. The company offers dialysis treatment and related laboratory and diagnostic services through a network of outpatient dialysis clinics; materials, training, and patient support services comprising clinical monitoring, follow-up assistance, and arranging for delivery of the supplies to the patient's residence; and dialysis services under contract to hospitals in the United States for the hospitalized end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and for patients suffering from acute kidney failure. The company operates through Care Delivery and Care Enablement segments. It also develops, manufactures, and distributes various health care products, including hemodialysis machines, peritoneal dialysis cyclers, peritoneal dialysis solutions, hemodialysis concentrates, solutions and granulates, bloodlines, renal pharmaceuticals, systems for water treatment, and acute cardiopulmonary and apheresis products. In addition, the company develops, acquires, and in-licenses renal pharmaceuticals; offers renal medications and supplies to patients at homes or to dialysis clinics; and provides vascular specialty, ambulatory surgery center, physician nephrology practice management, ambulant treatment, pharmacy and other services. The company sells its products to dialysis clinics, hospitals, and specialized treatment clinics, as well as through local sales forces, independent distributors, dealers, and sales agents. Fresenius Medical Care AG was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany.
Owning Fresenius Medical Care Corporation Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Fresenius Medical Care Corporation stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Fresenius Medical Care 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 Fresenius Medical Care Corporation stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Fresenius Medical Care Corporation stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Fresenius Medical Care Corporation dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
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