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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The ex-dividend date for General Electric (NYSE: GE) is tomorrow, February 21, 2013. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 19 cents per share. At a price of $23.75 as of 9:31 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 3.3%.
SPY will go ex-dividend Friday, March 17th, 2017 with a dividend of $1.03312 per share. Its distribution payout will be on April 28th,2017. VOO, one of the other two big S&P 500 ETFs, will go ex-dividend the 22nd of March (estimated) with a dividend of $1.00 / share and IVV on the 24th of March with a dividend of around 1.01 share. VOO and IVV are much faster to distribute the dividendsâboth pay out within a week of their ex-dividend dates.