Sea Ltd Dividends
The next dividend date for Sea Ltd 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 Sea Ltd (SE)
More About Sea Ltd
Sea Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer internet company in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the rest of Asia, and internationally. The company operates through E-commerce, Digital financial services, and Digital entertainment segments. It offers Garena, a digital entertainment platform for users to access mobile and PC online games, as well as promotes eSports operations and develops games. The company also operates the Shopee e-commerce platform, a mobile-centric marketplace that provides integrated payments, logistics infrastructure, and seller services. In addition, it offers SeaMoney digital financial services comprising consumer, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) credit, mobile wallets, payment processing, banking, and insurtech services under the SPayLater tradename; and acts as an underwriter for various life and non-life insurance products under the SeaInsure tradename, as well as insurance agency services. It serves buyers, such as individuals and households; and sellers, including small and medium businesses, brands, and large retailers. The company was formerly known as Garena Interactive Holding Limited and changed its name to Sea Limited in April 2017. Sea Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Owning Sea Ltd Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Sea Ltd stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Sea Ltd stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Sea Ltd stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Sea Ltd stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Sea Ltd dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Sea Ltd 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 Sea Ltd stock price from the dividend is already baked into Sea Ltd option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Sea Ltd ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Sea Ltd ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Sea Ltd call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Sea Ltd put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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