KLA-Tencor Corporation Dividends
The next dividend date for KLA-Tencor 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 KLA-Tencor Corporation (KLAC)
More About KLA-Tencor Corporation
KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems that are used to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticle inspection and metrology systems; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Owning KLA-Tencor Corporation Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own KLA-Tencor Corporation stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of KLA-Tencor 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 KLA-Tencor Corporation stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying KLA-Tencor Corporation stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the KLA-Tencor Corporation dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning KLA-Tencor 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 KLA-Tencor Corporation stock price from the dividend is already baked into KLA-Tencor Corporation option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the KLA-Tencor 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 KLA-Tencor Corporation ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of KLA-Tencor Corporation call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of KLA-Tencor 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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