ViaSat Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for ViaSat 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 ViaSat Inc (VSAT)
More About ViaSat Inc
Viasat, Inc. provides broadband and communications products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates through Communication Services; and Defense and Advanced Technologies segments. The company offers satellite-based broadband and narrowband communications solutions; broadband services, including broadband internet access and voice over internet protocol; fixed and mobile broadband and narrowband services; develops and sells satellite, wireless products, and terminals; and design, develop, and produce space system solutions for geostationary, medium, and low earth orbit. It also provides in-flight connectivity, narrowband safety operational data, and other complementary services; multimedia connectivity for military and government; tactical and beyond-line-of-sight communications; intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance; L-band advanced communications element terminals; enterprise connectivity solutions; Internet-of-Things; and L-band managed, energy, and prepaid internet services. In addition, the company offers networking, cybersecurity, and information assurance products and services; high assurance internet protocol encryption solutions; MOJO expeditionary tactical gateway; government satellite communication systems, mobile and fixed broadband modems, ground and airborne terminals, antennas and gateways, Ka-band earth stations, and other multi-band/multi-function antennas, as well as design products for manpacks, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, seagoing vessels, ground-mobile vehicles, space-based systems, and fixed applications. Further, it designs and develops GEO, LEO, and MEO satellites, payload, antenna technologies, and other small satellite platforms; develops commercial communication satellite product, orchestration of sovereign and multi-orbit solutions, and direct-to-device; and licenses intellectual property. Viasat, Inc. was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
Owning ViaSat Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own ViaSat Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of ViaSat 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 ViaSat Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying ViaSat Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the ViaSat 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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