Weibo Corp Dividends
The next dividend date for Weibo Corp 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 Weibo Corp (WB)
More About Weibo Corp
Weibo Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a social media platform for people to create, discover, and distribute content in the People's Republic of China. It operates through two segments, Advertising and Marketing Services; and Value-Added Services. The company offers discovery products to help users discover content on its platform; self-expression products that enable its users to express themselves on its platform; and social products to promote social interaction between users on its platform. It also provides advertising and marketing solutions, such as social display advertisements; and promoted marketing offerings, such as Fans Headline, Fans Headline, Weibo Express, and promoted feeds, as well as promoted trends and search products that appear alongside user's trends discovery and search behaviors. In addition, the company offers products, such as trends, search, video/live streaming, and editing tools; content customization, copyright contents pooling, and user interaction development; and search list recommendation, trends list recommendation, and Weibo app opening advertisements. Further, it provides back-end management, traffic support, and product services for better displaying and promotion of its account and content; an open application platform that allows users to log into third-party applications with their Weibo account for sharing third-party content on its platform; and Weibo Wallet, a product that enables platform partners to conduct interest generation activities on Weibo, such as handing out red envelops and coupons. It serves ordinary people, celebrities, opinion leaders, and other public figures or influencers, as well as media outlets, businesses, government agencies, charities, and other organizations. The company was formerly known as T.CN Corporation and changed its name to Weibo Corporation in 2012. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.
Owning Weibo Corp Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Weibo Corp stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Weibo Corp stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Weibo Corp stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Weibo Corp stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Weibo Corp dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Weibo Corp 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 Weibo Corp stock price from the dividend is already baked into Weibo Corp option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Weibo Corp ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Weibo Corp ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Weibo Corp call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Weibo Corp put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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