Zscaler Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Zscaler 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 Zscaler Inc (ZS)
More About Zscaler Inc
Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company offers Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, workloads, IoT, and OT devices secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds. It also provides Zscaler Digital Experience that measures end-to-end user experience across business applications, as well as provides an easy-to-understand digital experience score for each user, application, and location within an enterprise. In addition, the company offers Posture Control solutions comprising cloud applications and workload data security to protect data in public cloud environments; and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management that provides deep granularity into identity and privilege access management. Further, it provides Workload Segmentation solutions that secures application-to-application communications inside public clouds and data centers; and Zero Trust Device Segmentation solutions that offers agentless segmentation for enterprise IT and OT environments, as well as Zero Trust SD-WAN solutions. Its platform modules include Zscaler Central Authority, Zscaler Enforcement Node, and Zscaler Log Servers. The company serves customers in airlines and transportation, conglomerates, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and communications, public sector and education, technology, and telecommunications services industries. The company was formerly known as SafeChannel, Inc., and changed its name to Zscaler, Inc. in August 2008. Zscaler, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Owning Zscaler Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Zscaler Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Zscaler 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 Zscaler Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Zscaler Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Zscaler Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Zscaler 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 Zscaler Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Zscaler Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Zscaler 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 Zscaler Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Zscaler Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Zscaler 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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