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FE Dividend History, Yield & Dates
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FEFirstEnergy Corp.
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FE Dividend answer
FirstEnergy Corp. (FE) pays a quarterly dividend. Forward dividend yield: 3.97%, or $1.86 a year at the latest dividend. Trailing 12-month yield: 3.88%, from $1.82 per share paid over the past year. Its latest dividend was $0.465 per share. Latest ex-dividend date: Nov 6, 2026. Payment date: Dec 1, 2026. Next dividend status: announced at $0.465 per share.
FE Dividend Snapshot
Yield, annual dividend, latest payment, payout coverage, growth, and dividend history are emphasized for this stock. Yield methodology is labeled separately from payout coverage.
Next FE Dividend Date
When FE next goes ex-dividend, the amount where it has been declared, and whether that state is announced, projected or not yet known.
Next FE dividend
FE's announced dividend calendar data is shown separately from historical payments so future dates do not get blended into completed dividend history.
Latest FE Dividend Dates
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FE Dividend History
Recent per-share dividends show payment cadence. Trailing-year and growth reads are shown only when the available rows cover a complete comparable window.
Dividend reliability
Recent dividend payments are summarized as cadence and coverage signals. Exact rows remain below for auditability.
FE Annual Dividend History
FE Dividend Growth
Latest row amount $0.465, event yield 3.83%.
This page labels the feed as recent history when multi-year rows, payment dates, or record dates are incomplete. Announced calendar dates are separated from completed dividend history.
Dividend growth
- 5-year regular dividend CAGR
- 2.44%
- Cohort rank
- #317
- Cohort standing
- Bottom half
- Utilities rank
- #32
- 2020 regular DPS
- $1.560
- 2025 regular DPS
- $1.760
- Absolute change
- $0.200
- Years increased
- 3
- Years reduced
- 0
FE's split-adjusted regular dividend per share grew at 2.44% a year from 2020 through 2025, ranking #317 among US dividend-paying corporations that never cut the payout in AlgovestIQ's study.
Split-adjusted regular dividends per share, 2020–2025, excluding special dividends. Research as of Sep 19, 2026.
FE Dividend Yield
How FE's trailing 12-month dividend yield is calculated, and what it does and does not account for.
Yield methodology
FE's trailing dividend yield is the regular dividends paid over the last twelve months divided by the latest available share price. Payouts classified as special or supplemental are excluded, because a one-off payment is not recurring income. It is a backward-looking measure and is not the same as a forward yield, which annualises the most recent declared payment instead.
Dividend coverage
Coverage is read from earnings and cash flow rather than from the yield. A payout ratio leaves room, or does not; free cash flow either covers the payment, or the company is funding it another way. These are inputs to a judgement, not a guarantee of future payments.
Recent FE dividend payments
| Ex-date | Dividend | Adjusted | Yield at ex-date | Frequency | TTM adjusted | Declared | Record date | Payment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2026 | $0.465 | $0.465 | 3.83% | Quarterly | $1.82 | Jul 22, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 |
| May 7, 2026 | $0.465 | $0.465 | 3.98% | Quarterly | $1.80 | Feb 11, 2026 | May 7, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 |
| Feb 6, 2026 | $0.445 | $0.445 | 3.82% | Quarterly | $1.78 | Dec 17, 2025 | Feb 6, 2026 | Mar 1, 2026 |
| Nov 7, 2025 | $0.445 | $0.445 | 3.83% | Quarterly | $1.76 | Sep 23, 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 |
| Aug 7, 2025 | $0.445 | $0.445 | 4.01% | Quarterly | $1.74 | Jul 23, 2025 | Aug 7, 2025 | Sep 1, 2025 |
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| May 7, 2025 | $0.445 | $0.445 | 4.00% | Quarterly | $1.72 | Mar 19, 2025 | May 7, 2025 | Jun 1, 2025 |
| Feb 7, 2025 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 4.23% | Quarterly | $1.70 | Dec 18, 2024 | Feb 7, 2025 | Mar 1, 2025 |
| Nov 7, 2024 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 4.09% | Quarterly | $1.68 | Sep 24, 2024 | Nov 7, 2024 | Dec 1, 2024 |
| Aug 7, 2024 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 3.98% | Quarterly | $1.67 | Jul 24, 2024 | Aug 7, 2024 | Sep 1, 2024 |
| May 6, 2024 | $0.425 | $0.425 | 4.20% | Quarterly | $1.63 | Mar 20, 2024 | May 7, 2024 | Jun 1, 2024 |
| Feb 6, 2024 | $0.41 | $0.41 | 4.47% | Quarterly | $1.60 | Dec 20, 2023 | Feb 7, 2024 | Mar 1, 2024 |
| Nov 6, 2023 | $0.41 | $0.41 | 4.39% | Quarterly | $1.58 | Sep 26, 2023 | Nov 7, 2023 | Dec 1, 2023 |
| Aug 4, 2023 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.30% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Jul 26, 2023 | Aug 7, 2023 | Sep 1, 2023 |
| May 4, 2023 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.01% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Mar 22, 2023 | May 5, 2023 | Jun 1, 2023 |
| Feb 6, 2023 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 3.93% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Dec 13, 2022 | Feb 7, 2023 | Mar 1, 2023 |
| Nov 4, 2022 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.12% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Sep 19, 2022 | Nov 7, 2022 | Dec 1, 2022 |
| Aug 4, 2022 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.03% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Jul 19, 2022 | Aug 5, 2022 | Sep 1, 2022 |
| May 5, 2022 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 3.67% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Mar 15, 2022 | May 6, 2022 | Jun 1, 2022 |
| Feb 4, 2022 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 3.77% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Dec 21, 2021 | Feb 7, 2022 | Mar 1, 2022 |
| Nov 4, 2021 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.01% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Sep 21, 2021 | Nov 5, 2021 | Dec 1, 2021 |
| Aug 5, 2021 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.11% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Jul 20, 2021 | Aug 6, 2021 | Sep 1, 2021 |
| May 6, 2021 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.17% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Mar 16, 2021 | May 7, 2021 | Jun 1, 2021 |
| Feb 4, 2021 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 4.84% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Dec 15, 2020 | Feb 5, 2021 | Mar 1, 2021 |
| Nov 5, 2020 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 5.31% | Quarterly | $1.56 | Sep 15, 2020 | Nov 6, 2020 | Dec 1, 2020 |
| Aug 6, 2020 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 5.31% | Quarterly | $1.55 | Jul 21, 2020 | Aug 7, 2020 | Sep 1, 2020 |
| May 6, 2020 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 3.85% | Quarterly | $1.54 | Mar 17, 2020 | May 7, 2020 | Jun 1, 2020 |
| Feb 6, 2020 | $0.39 | $0.39 | 2.99% | Quarterly | $1.53 | Nov 8, 2019 | Feb 7, 2020 | Mar 1, 2020 |
| Nov 6, 2019 | $0.38 | $0.38 | 3.23% | Quarterly | $1.52 | Sep 17, 2019 | Nov 7, 2019 | Dec 1, 2019 |
| Aug 6, 2019 | $0.38 | $0.38 | 3.45% | Quarterly | $1.50 | Jul 16, 2019 | Aug 7, 2019 | Sep 1, 2019 |
| May 6, 2019 | $0.38 | $0.38 | 3.53% | Quarterly | $1.48 | Mar 19, 2019 | May 7, 2019 | Jun 1, 2019 |
| Feb 6, 2019 | $0.38 | $0.38 | 3.78% | Quarterly | $1.46 | Nov 9, 2018 | Feb 7, 2019 | Mar 1, 2019 |
| Nov 6, 2018 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 3.84% | Quarterly | $1.44 | Sep 18, 2018 | Nov 7, 2018 | Dec 1, 2018 |
| Aug 6, 2018 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 3.97% | Quarterly | $1.44 | Jul 17, 2018 | Aug 7, 2018 | Sep 1, 2018 |
| May 4, 2018 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 4.22% | Quarterly | $1.44 | Mar 20, 2018 | May 7, 2018 | Jun 1, 2018 |
| Feb 6, 2018 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 4.66% | Quarterly | $1.44 | Jan 16, 2018 | Feb 7, 2018 | Mar 1, 2018 |
| Nov 6, 2017 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 4.39% | Quarterly | $1.44 | Sep 19, 2017 | Nov 7, 2017 | Dec 1, 2017 |
| Aug 3, 2017 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 4.49% | Quarterly | — | Jul 18, 2017 | Aug 7, 2017 | Sep 1, 2017 |
| May 3, 2017 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 4.97% | Quarterly | — | Mar 21, 2017 | May 5, 2017 | Jun 1, 2017 |
| Feb 3, 2017 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 4.82% | Quarterly | — | Jan 17, 2017 | Feb 7, 2017 | Mar 1, 2017 |
| Nov 3, 2016 | $0.36 | $0.36 | 4.33% | Quarterly | — | Sep 20, 2016 | Nov 7, 2016 | Dec 1, 2016 |
Dividend yield is only the starting point. Pair the current distribution with payout ratio, free cash flow coverage, balance-sheet risk, and the history of actual payments before treating income as durable.
A higher yield is more useful when earnings and free cash flow cover the distribution. A yield caused by a falling stock price can be a warning, not a bargain.
Stable or rising payments can indicate capital return discipline. Flat, skipped, or missing payments should be read with earnings and cash flow before drawing conclusions.
A low payout ratio can leave room for growth; a high payout ratio can indicate limited cushion. Cyclical companies need more room than stable defensive businesses.
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FE Dividends FAQ
Does FE pay a dividend?
FirstEnergy Corp. (FE) has covered dividend payment history on this page, including a latest dividend of $0.47 per share and a quarterly cadence based on available events.
What is FE's dividend yield?
FE's trailing dividend yield is 3.88%. Trailing dividend yield equals dividends paid over the trailing 12 months divided by the latest available share price.
When is FE's next dividend?
FE's next announced dividend is $0.47 per share with an ex-dividend date of Nov 6, 2026 and payment date of Dec 1, 2026.
When is FE's ex-dividend date?
FE's next announced ex-dividend date is Nov 6, 2026.
How has FE's dividend changed?
FE's one-year dividend growth is 4.60% based on comparable covered dividend history.