GE to keep its quarterly dividend at a penny a share

General Electric Co. said Friday it will pay a quarterly dividend of a penny a share, which means the industrial conglomerate will be keeping it at that lowered rate for over a year. The dividend will be payable Jan. 27 to shareholders of record on Dec. 23. GE's stock was up 2.0% in afternoon trading. At current prices, the stock's dividend yield is 0.36%, compared with the yield for the SPDR Industrial Select Sector ETF of 1.94% and the implied yield for the S&P 500 of 1.89%, according to FactSet. GE had slashed its dividend to a penny per share from 12 cents last year in an effort to preserve cash. That first 1-cent dividend was paid out on Jan. 25, 2019 to shareholders of record Dec. 20, 2018. GE's stock has run up 55.8% over the past 12 months, while the industrial ETF has gained 16.1% and the S&P 500 has advanced 16.8%.

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/b433445f...html?.tsrc=rss