SunOpta Inc. Dividends
The next dividend date for SunOpta 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 SunOpta Inc. (STKL)
More About SunOpta Inc.
SunOpta Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of plant and fruit-based food and beverage products in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It provides plant-based beverage products, including oat, almond, soy, coconut, rice, hemp, and other bases under the Dream and West Life brands names; oat-based creamers under the SOWN brand name; ready-to-drink protein shakes; packaged teas and concentrates; meat and vegetable broths and stocks; and nut, grain, seed, and legume-based beverages. The company also offers plant-based ingredients, such as oatbase, soybase, oatgold, hempbase, and soy powders and okara; ready-to-eat fruit snacks made from apple purée and juice concentrate in bar, bit, twist, strip and sandwich formats; cold pressed fruit bars; ready-to-eat fruit smoothie and chia bowls topped with frozen fruit; and liquid and dry ingredients for internal use and for sale to other food and beverage manufacturers. It sells its products through various distribution channels, including foodservice operators, grocery retailers and club stores, branded food companies, and food manufacturers, as well as e-commerce channels. The company was formerly known as Stake Technology Ltd. and changed its name to SunOpta Inc. in October 2003. SunOpta Inc. was incorporated in 1973 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Owning SunOpta Inc. Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own SunOpta Inc. stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of SunOpta 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 SunOpta Inc. stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying SunOpta Inc. stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the SunOpta Inc. dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
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