Williams-Sonoma Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Williams-Sonoma 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 Williams-Sonoma Inc (WSM)
More About Williams-Sonoma Inc
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. operates as an omni-channel specialty retailer of various products for home. The company offers cooking, dining, and entertaining products, such as cookware, tools, electrics, cutlery, tabletop and bar, outdoor, furniture, and a library of cookbooks. It also provides home furnishings, home decor products and accessories, bedding, lighting, rugs, table essentials, kids accessories, made-to-order lighting, hardware, personalized products, custom gifts, and colorful and vintage-inspired heirloom products. In addition, the company operates a 3-D imaging and augmented reality platform for the home furnishings and decor industry. It offers its products under the Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, Mark and Graham, and GreenRow brand names. The company markets its products through e-commerce websites, direct-mail catalogs, and retail stores. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Owning Williams-Sonoma Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Williams-Sonoma Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Williams-Sonoma 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 Williams-Sonoma Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Williams-Sonoma Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Williams-Sonoma Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Williams-Sonoma 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 Williams-Sonoma Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Williams-Sonoma Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Williams-Sonoma 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 Williams-Sonoma Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Williams-Sonoma Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Williams-Sonoma 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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