Redwire Corp Dividends
The next dividend date for Redwire 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 Redwire Corp (RDW)
More About Redwire Corp
Redwire Corporation provides critical space solutions and space infrastructure for government and commercial customers in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers avionics and sensors, including star trackers and sun sensors, which are critical for navigation and control of spacecraft; camera systems; infrared, space situational awareness, and position timing and navigation payloads; solar array solutions for spacecraft spanning the spectrum of size, power needs, and orbital location; and strain composite booms, coilable booms, truss structures, telescope baffles, and deployable booms to position sensors or solar arrays away from the spacecraft. It also provides software suite that enables digital engineering and generation of high-fidelity, interactive modeling and simulations of individual components, entire spacecraft, and full constellations in a cloud-based environment. In addition, the company offers microgravity payloads, radio frequency systems, antennas, spacecraft platforms and missions, and in-space manufacturing and biotech facilities, as well as field-proven uncrewed airborne system (UAS) technology. Redwire Corporation was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
Owning Redwire Corp Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Redwire Corp stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Redwire 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 Redwire Corp stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Redwire Corp stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Redwire Corp dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Redwire 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 Redwire Corp stock price from the dividend is already baked into Redwire Corp option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Redwire 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 Redwire Corp ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Redwire Corp call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Redwire 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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