Tyson Foods Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Tyson Foods Inc is August 29, 2025.
A dividend of $0.50 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 Tyson Foods Inc (TSN)
More About Tyson Foods Inc
Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully cooked meats; raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products, including breaded chicken strips, nuggets, patties, and other ready-to-fix or fully cooked chicken parts; and supplies poultry breeding stock. It also manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, Gallo Salame, ibp, and State Fair brands. The company sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and food service operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.
Owning Tyson Foods Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Tyson Foods Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Tyson Foods 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 Tyson Foods Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Tyson Foods Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Tyson Foods Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Tyson Foods 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 Tyson Foods Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Tyson Foods Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Tyson Foods 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 Tyson Foods Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Tyson Foods Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Tyson Foods 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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