RH Dividends
The next dividend date for RH 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 RH (RH)
More About RH
RH, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer and lifestyle brand in the home furnishings market in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. It operates through three segments: RH Segment, Waterworks, and Real Estate. The company offers products in various categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, bathware, décor, outdoor and garden, baby, child, and teen furnishings. It sells its products through hospitality, websites, sourcebooks, and trade and contract channels, as well as operates RH galleries, RH outlet stores, RH guesthouses, RH Interior design office, and waterworks showrooms. The company was formerly known as Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to RH in January 2017. RH was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Corte Madera, California.
Owning RH Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own RH stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of RH stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of RH stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying RH stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the RH dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning RH 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 RH stock price from the dividend is already baked into RH option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the RH ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the RH ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of RH call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of RH put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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