UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Dividends
The next dividend date for UnitedHealth Group Incorporated 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 UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH)
More About UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a health care company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; health care coverage, and health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older; Medicaid plans, children's health insurance and health care programs; and health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage. The Optum Health segment provides care delivery, care management, wellness and consumer engagement, and health financial services patients, consumers, care delivery systems, providers, employers, payers, and public-sector entities. The Optum Insight segment offers software and information products, advisory consulting arrangements, and managed services outsourcing contracts to hospital systems, physicians, health plans, governments, life sciences companies, and other organizations. The Optum Rx segment provides pharmacy care services and programs, including retail network contracting, home delivery, specialty and community health pharmacy services, infusion, and purchasing and clinical capabilities, as well as develops programs in the areas of step therapy, formulary management, drug adherence, and disease and drug therapy management. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated was founded in 1974 and is based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Owning UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own UnitedHealth Group Incorporated stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying UnitedHealth Group Incorporated stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the UnitedHealth Group Incorporated dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning UnitedHealth Group Incorporated 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 UnitedHealth Group Incorporated stock price from the dividend is already baked into UnitedHealth Group Incorporated option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the UnitedHealth Group Incorporated ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the UnitedHealth Group Incorporated ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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