As of today (2024-04-19), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of General Dynamics is 2.01%.
As of today (2024-04-19), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of General Dynamics is 1.88%.
HAM:GDX's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked better than 69.01% of 142
companies
in the Aerospace & Defense industry
Industry Median: 1.12
vs HAM:GDX: 2.01
General Dynamics's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was €1.21.
During the past 12 months, General Dynamics's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.80% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 6.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 7.30% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 9.20% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of General Dynamics was 59.20% per year. The lowest was 5.40% per year. And the median was 10.30% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
Competitive Comparison
For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, General Dynamics's Forward Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Forward Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
General Dynamics Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, General Dynamics's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where General Dynamics's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.
General Dynamics Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
General Dynamics Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 1.420
2024-04-11
2024-04-12
2024-05-10
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.920000
USD 1.320
2024-01-18
2024-01-19
2024-02-09
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.918000
USD 1.320
2023-10-05
2023-10-06
2023-11-10
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.947000
USD 1.320
2023-07-06
2023-07-07
2023-08-11
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.904000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
General Dynamics's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
5.2256
/
265.20
=
1.97 %
Current Share Price is €265.20.
General Dynamics's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €1.3064 * 4 = €5.2256.
General Dynamics's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
4.96148
/
265.20
=
1.87 %
Current Share Price is €265.20.
General Dynamics's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is €4.96148.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
General Dynamics (HAM:GDX) Forward Dividend Yield % Explanation
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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General Dynamics is a defense contractor and business jet manufacturer. The firm's segments include aerospace, marine, combat systems, and technologies. General Dynamics' aerospace segment creates Gulfstream business jets and operates a global aircraft servicing operation. Combat systems produces land-based combat vehicles such as the M1 Abrams tank and Stryker armored personnel carrier, as well as munitions. The marine segment creates and services nuclear-powered submarines, destroyers, and other ships. The technologies segment contains two main units, an IT business that primarily serves the government market and a mission systems business that focuses on products that provide command, control, computing, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to the military.
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