iQIYI Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for iQIYI 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 iQIYI Inc (IQ)
More About iQIYI Inc
iQIYI, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides online entertainment video services in the People's Republic of China. The company offers various products and services, including online video, online games, online literature, comics, and others. It operates a platform that provides a collection of internet video content, such as professionally produced content licensed from professional content providers and self-produced content. The company also offers membership, online advertising, and content distribution services. In addition, it is involved in the talent agency and IP licensing activities. The company was formerly known as Qiyi.com, Inc. and changed its name to iQIYI, Inc. in November 2017. iQIYI, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. iQIYI, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Baidu Holdings Limited.
Owning iQIYI Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own iQIYI Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of iQIYI 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 iQIYI Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying iQIYI Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the iQIYI Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning iQIYI 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 iQIYI Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into iQIYI Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the iQIYI 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 iQIYI Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of iQIYI Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of iQIYI 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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