General Dynamics Corporation Dividends
The next dividend date for General Dynamics Corporation is October 9, 2026.
A dividend of $1.59 per share is 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 General Dynamics Corporation (GD)
| 07/02/2026 | 06/03/2026 | 07/02/2026 | 08/07/2026 | $1.59 |
| 04/10/2026 | 03/04/2026 | 04/10/2026 | 05/08/2026 | $1.59 |
| 01/16/2026 | 12/03/2025 | 01/16/2026 | 02/06/2026 | $1.50 |
| 10/10/2025 | 08/06/2025 | 10/10/2025 | 11/14/2025 | $1.50 |
| 07/03/2025 | 06/04/2025 | 07/03/2025 | 08/08/2025 | $1.50 |
| 04/11/2025 | 03/05/2025 | 04/11/2025 | 05/09/2025 | $1.50 |
| 01/17/2025 | 12/04/2024 | 01/17/2025 | 02/07/2025 | $1.42 |
| 10/11/2024 | 08/07/2024 | 10/11/2024 | 11/15/2024 | $1.42 |
| 07/05/2024 | 06/05/2024 | 07/05/2024 | 08/09/2024 | $1.42 |
| 04/11/2024 | 03/06/2024 | 04/12/2024 | 05/10/2024 | $1.42 |
More About General Dynamics Corporation
General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment produces and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, aircraft-on-ground support, customer support and custom completion services, modifications, upgrades, and lifecycle sustainment support services. The Marine Systems segment designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, and auxiliary ships for the United States Navy and Jones Act ships for commercial customers, as well as provides maintenance, modernization, and lifecycle support services for navy ships; offers and program management, planning, engineering, and design support services for submarine construction programs. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, piranha vehicles, weapons systems, energetics and munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, and armored vehicles; and offers modernization programs, support and sustainment services, and development programs. The Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services; mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions to military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers; cloud services, cybersecurity, network modernization, artificial intelligence; machine learning; application development, high-performance computing, and 5G and advanced communications services; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
Owning General Dynamics Corporation Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own General Dynamics Corporation stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of General Dynamics Corporation stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of General Dynamics Corporation stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying General Dynamics Corporation stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the General Dynamics Corporation dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning General Dynamics Corporation 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 General Dynamics Corporation stock price from the dividend is already baked into General Dynamics Corporation option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the General Dynamics Corporation ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the General Dynamics Corporation ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of General Dynamics Corporation call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of General Dynamics Corporation put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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