Cassava Sciences Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Cassava Sciences 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 Cassava Sciences Inc (SAVA)
More About Cassava Sciences Inc
Cassava Sciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company, develops drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. Its lead therapeutic product candidate is simufilam, a small molecule drug, which is completed Phase 2 clinical trial; and investigational diagnostic product candidate is SavaDx, a blood-based biomarker/diagnostic to detect Alzheimer's disease. Cassava Sciences, Inc. was formerly known as Pain Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Cassava Sciences, Inc. in March 2019. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Owning Cassava Sciences Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Cassava Sciences Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Cassava Sciences 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 Cassava Sciences Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Cassava Sciences Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Cassava Sciences Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Cassava Sciences 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 Cassava Sciences Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Cassava Sciences Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Cassava Sciences 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 Cassava Sciences Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Cassava Sciences Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Cassava Sciences 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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