Seagate Technology PLC Dividends
The next dividend date for Seagate Technology PLC is September 30, 2025.
A dividend of $0.72 per share is 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 Seagate Technology PLC (STX)
More About Seagate Technology PLC
Seagate Technology Holdings plc engages in the provision of data storage technology and infrastructure solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. It also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, Expansion, and Basics product lines, as well as under the LaCie brand name; desktop drives for personal computers and workstation applications; notebook drives traditional notebooks, convertible systems, and external storage applications, DVR HDDs for video streaming applications, and gaming SSDs for gaming rigs. In addition, the company provides Lyve edge-to-cloud mass capacity platform, that includes modular hardware and software to support enterprises' on-premise and cloud storage infrastructure needs. It sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The company was founded in 1978 and is based in Singapore.
Owning Seagate Technology PLC Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Seagate Technology PLC stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Seagate Technology PLC stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Seagate Technology PLC stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Seagate Technology PLC stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Seagate Technology PLC dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Seagate Technology PLC 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 Seagate Technology PLC stock price from the dividend is already baked into Seagate Technology PLC option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Seagate Technology PLC ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Seagate Technology PLC ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Seagate Technology PLC call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Seagate Technology PLC put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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