Fastly Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Fastly 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 Fastly Inc (FSLY)
More About Fastly Inc
Fastly, Inc. operates an edge cloud platform for processing, serving, and securing its customer's applications in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and internationally. The edge cloud is a category of Infrastructure as a Service that enables developers to build, secure, and deliver digital experiences at the edge of the internet. The company offers network services to speed up and optimize the delivery of web and application traffic; content delivery network, such as dynamic site acceleration, origin shield, instant purge, surrogate keys, programmatic control, content compression, reliability features, fanout, domainr, privacy, and modern protocols and performance services; and video/ streaming solutions and services, including live streaming, live event monitoring, video on demand, and media shield. It also provides security solutions, such as DDoS protection, next-gen WAF, bot management, API and ATO protection, advanced rate limiting, privacy, and compliance services; load balancing; image optimization; transport layer security (TLS), platform TLS, and certainly; compute: observability; and origin connect. In addition, the company offers professional services comprising managed and response security services; managed CDN; and support plans services. It serves customers operating in digital publishing, media, technology, online education, travel and hospitality, and financial services industries. The company was formerly known as SkyCache, Inc. and changed its name to Fastly, Inc. in May 2012. Fastly, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Owning Fastly Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Fastly Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Fastly 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 Fastly Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Fastly Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Fastly Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Fastly 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 Fastly Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Fastly Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Fastly 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 Fastly Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Fastly Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Fastly 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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