General Motors Company Dividends
The next dividend date for General Motors Company is September 5, 2025.
A dividend of $0.15 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 Motors Company (GM)
More About General Motors Company
General Motors Company designs, builds, and sells trucks, crossovers, cars, and automobile parts worldwide. The company operates through GM North America, GM International, Cruise, and GM Financial segments. It markets its vehicles primarily under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Baojun, and Wuling brand names. In addition, the company sells trucks, crossovers, cars, and automobile parts through retail dealers, distributors and dealers, as well as to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. Further, it offers software-enabled services and subscriptions; and various range of after-sale services through dealer network, such as maintenance, light repairs, collision repairs, vehicle accessories, and extended service warranties. Additionally, the company provides automotive financing; and software-enabled services and subscriptions. General Motors Company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.
Owning General Motors Company Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own General Motors Company stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of General Motors Company 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 Motors Company stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying General Motors Company stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the General Motors Company dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning General Motors Company 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 Motors Company stock price from the dividend is already baked into General Motors Company option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the General Motors Company 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 Motors Company ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of General Motors Company call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of General Motors Company put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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