Twilio Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Twilio 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 Twilio Inc (TWLO)
More About Twilio Inc
Twilio Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers customer engagement platform solutions in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Twilio Communications and Twilio Segment. The company provides various application programming interfaces and software solutions for communications between customers and end users, including messaging, voice, email, flex, marketing campaigns, and user authentication and identity. It also offers software products to build direct and personalized relationships with their end users, such as segment, a platform that provides tools to harness the power of contextual data by unifying real-time information collected comprising connections, protocols, unify, engages, and AI capabilities components. Twilio Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California
Owning Twilio Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Twilio Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Twilio 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 Twilio Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Twilio Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Twilio Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Twilio 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 Twilio Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Twilio Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Twilio 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 Twilio Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Twilio Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Twilio 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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