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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%.
Dictionary of Financial Terms. Ex-dividend is the time period between the announcement and payment of a dividend, while the date of record is the day a shareholder must officially own shares to be entitled to the dividend. The ex-dividend date generally precedes the record date, usually by four business days on the New York Stock Exchange. But a NYSE rule allows the ex-dividend and record dates to be flip-flopped when a dividend is more than 25% of the current stock price.