Credit: Gamestop Corporation ( GME ) will begin trading ex-dividend on March 13, 2015. A cash dividend payment of $0.36 per share is scheduled to be paid on March 24, 2015. Shareholders who purchased GME prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment. This represents an 9.09% increase over the prior quarter.
The previous trading day's last sale of GME was $39.48, representing a -15.26% decrease from the 52 week high of $46.59 and a 24.58% increase over the 52 week low of $31.69.
GME is a part of the Consumer Services sector. GME's current earnings per share, an indicator of a company's profitability, is $3.2. Zacks Investment Research reports GME's forecasted earnings growth in 2015 as 15.86%, compared to an industry average of 9.6%.
For more information on the declaration, record and payment dates, visit the GME Dividend History page. Our Dividend Calendar has the full list of stocks that have an ex-dividend today.
Interested in gaining exposure to GME through an Exchange Traded Fund [ETF]?
The following ETF(s) have GME as a top-10 holding:
- First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers ETF ( RDVY )
- ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF ( SDOG )
- First Trust Cons. Discret. AlphaDEX ( FXD )
- Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF ( RCD )
- First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (based onthe Defined ( FTA ).
The top-performing ETF of this group is FXD with an increase of 18.44% over the last 100 days. RDVY has the highest percent weighting of GME at 2.22%.
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