Meta Platforms Inc. Dividends
The next dividend date for Meta Platforms 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 Meta Platforms Inc. (META)
| 06/15/2026 | 05/28/2026 | 06/15/2026 | 06/25/2026 | $0.53 |
| 03/16/2026 | 02/12/2026 | 03/16/2026 | 03/26/2026 | $0.53 |
| 12/15/2025 | 12/03/2025 | 12/15/2025 | 12/23/2025 | $0.53 |
| 09/22/2025 | 09/11/2025 | 09/22/2025 | 09/29/2025 | $0.53 |
| 06/16/2025 | 05/29/2025 | 06/16/2025 | 06/26/2025 | $0.53 |
| 03/14/2025 | 02/13/2025 | 03/14/2025 | 03/26/2025 | $0.53 |
| 12/16/2024 | 12/05/2024 | 12/16/2024 | 12/27/2024 | $0.50 |
| 09/16/2024 | 09/05/2024 | 09/16/2024 | 09/26/2024 | $0.50 |
| 06/14/2024 | 05/30/2024 | 06/14/2024 | 06/26/2024 | $0.50 |
| 02/21/2024 | 02/01/2024 | 02/22/2024 | 03/26/2024 | $0.50 |
More About Meta Platforms Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality (VR) headsets, and AI glasses in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Family of Apps (FoA) and Reality Labs (RL). The FoA segment offers Facebook, which enables people to build community through feed, reels, stories, groups, marketplace, and other; Instagram that brings people closer through Instagram feed, stories, reels, live, and messaging; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; Meta AI, an assistant that's available across apps, as a stand-alone app, on AI glasses, and on the web; Threads, an application for text-based updates and public conversations; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact. The RL segment provides virtual and augmented reality products, including consumer hardware, software, and content that help people feel connected, as well as Meta Quest devices that enable social experiences across gaming, fitness, entertainment, and more. The segment also includes wearables such as AI glasses like Ray Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses; and the Meta Ray Ban Display, which combines AI glasses with an integrated lens display and the Meta Neural Band, a wrist worn device using electromyography that lets people control their AI glasses through neuromuscular signals. Meta Platforms, Inc. has a collaboration with Microsoft Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Broadcom Inc., and OpenAI, L.L.C. The company was formerly known as Facebook, Inc. and changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Owning Meta Platforms Inc. Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Meta Platforms Inc. stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Meta Platforms 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 Meta Platforms Inc. stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Meta Platforms Inc. stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Meta Platforms Inc. dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Meta Platforms 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 Meta Platforms Inc. stock price from the dividend is already baked into Meta Platforms Inc. option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Meta Platforms 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 Meta Platforms Inc. ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Meta Platforms Inc. call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Meta Platforms 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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