Lithium Americas Corp Dividends
The next dividend date for Lithium Americas Corp 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 Lithium Americas Corp (LAC)
More About Lithium Americas Corp
Lithium Americas Corp. focuses on developing, building, and operating of lithium deposits and chemical processing facilities in the United States and Canada. Its flagship asset is the Thacker Pass project located in the McDermitt Caldera in Humboldt County, northern Nevada, as well as invests in exploration properties in the United States and Canada. The company was incorporated in 2023 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Owning Lithium Americas Corp Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Lithium Americas Corp stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Lithium Americas Corp stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Lithium Americas Corp stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Lithium Americas Corp stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Lithium Americas Corp dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Lithium Americas Corp 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 Lithium Americas Corp stock price from the dividend is already baked into Lithium Americas Corp option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Lithium Americas Corp ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Lithium Americas Corp ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Lithium Americas Corp call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Lithium Americas Corp put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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