Pinterest Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Pinterest 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 Pinterest Inc (PINS)
More About Pinterest Inc
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual search and discovery platform in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. The company's platform allows people to find ideas, such as recipes, home and style inspiration, and others; and to search, save, and shop the ideas. It also offers various advertising products to help advertisers meet users; and ad auction that allows to serve ads to users at relevant moments while optimizing business outcomes for advertisers. The company was formerly known as Cold Brew Labs Inc. and changed its name to Pinterest, Inc. in April 2012. Pinterest, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Owning Pinterest Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Pinterest Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Pinterest 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 Pinterest Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Pinterest Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Pinterest Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Pinterest 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 Pinterest Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Pinterest Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Pinterest 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 Pinterest Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Pinterest Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Pinterest 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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