VeriSign Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for VeriSign 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 VeriSign Inc (VRSN)
More About VeriSign Inc
VeriSign, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides internet infrastructure and domain name registry services that enables internet navigation for various recognized domain names worldwide. The company enables the security, stability, and resiliency of internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating two of thirteen internet root servers; and offering registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net domains, which supports global e-commerce. It operates directory for .name and .cc; and back-end systems for .edu, domain names. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
Owning VeriSign Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own VeriSign Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of VeriSign 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 VeriSign Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying VeriSign Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the VeriSign 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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