Dividend stocks

Rising-payment streaks in our stored history: 10 years or more

Securities whose total annual payments have risen in each of the last ten or more consecutive completed calendar years that we hold payments for. The count is bounded by our data, so several of these records are longer than the number shown.

Securities in this list 283

Median forward yield est. 2.49% Last regular payment annualised ÷ price. Middle of the list, not an average

Median trailing 12m yield 2.39% Cash actually paid over the last 365 days ÷ price

Most rising years in our history 55+ yrs Longest run of rising years inside the payment history we store. Our history is shallower than some issuers' records, so this is a floor, not a company record

Next ex-dividend date Oct 15 Earliest ex-date strictly after today

Which securities this list covers

Every figure on this page covers US-listed common stocks and REITs only. Preferred series and exchange-traded baby bonds are excluded by the database query itself, not filtered out by hand: both pay a contractual coupon on a fixed face amount rather than a dividend a board can raise, and they are covered on the preferred stocks and bonds pages instead. Fund wrappers (ETFs, closed-end funds and covered-call funds) and pass-through structures such as BDCs and MLPs are outside this set too, because a fund distribution is the sum of what its holdings paid minus fees, which is not the same measurement as a company dividend. Counts, medians, averages and sector aggregates below are computed across that equity set and nothing else.

Everything on this page has raised its total annual payment in each of the last ten or more completed calendar years for which we hold payments. We calculate that count ourselves, by adding up the payments we hold for each calendar year and comparing consecutive years. It is not licensed from an index provider and it carries no membership rules about size, liquidity or listing. It also cannot see further back than our data goes, which is the year shown in the 'Our history starts' column: a figure marked with a plus and a dagger is a floor, and the company's own record is longer than the number in the row.

A rising payment does two things a static payment does not. It compounds the income on capital you have already committed, so a position bought at a 2.5% yield that grows at 7% a year is paying roughly 5% on the original cost after a decade. And it acts as a rough discipline on management: a board that has raised the dividend for fifteen straight years has publicly tied its credibility to not being the one that breaks the run.

The trade-off is visible in the yield column. Companies that raise reliably tend to be mature, well-covered and widely held, which means they are rarely cheap and their starting yields are usually below the market's highest payers. Growth and current income pull in opposite directions; a list sorted by rising years is not the same list as one sorted by yield, and neither ordering is better than the other in the abstract.

Two things to watch. First, a streak measured on calendar-year totals can be broken or created by timing: a payment that slips from late December into January changes both years' totals without anything real changing. Second, the run rate matters as much as the run length: a company raising by one cent a year to protect a streak is technically still raising, but the growth rate column will show it is no longer keeping up with inflation.

Forward yield and trailing yield are two different numbers

Two different yields appear in these tables and they are not interchangeable, which is why neither is ever headed simply 'Yield' and why both columns spell their basis out in the header rather than in a note. Yield (forward est.) is a forward estimate: the most recent regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year, divided by the latest price. It describes what the next twelve months would pay if the payment and the price both stood still, and neither of those is promised. Yield (trailing 12m) looks backwards: the cash actually paid out over the last 365 days, divided by the same price. Where a security's cadence is irregular, or its last payment is too old for the stream to look live, the forward column falls back to the trailing figure; that is why the two columns are sometimes identical. A gap between them is information rather than an error: it usually means the payment was raised or cut during the year, or that a special distribution sits inside the trailing number. Neither column is comparable to a Treasury yield, a bond's yield to maturity, a credit index effective yield or a bank deposit APY without first adjusting for what each of those measures.

This list measures our payment history, not a company record

What a rising-year count on this site is, and what it is not. We add up the regular payments we hold for each completed calendar year and count backwards for as long as each year is above the one before it. That count is bounded twice over: it can never reach further back than the first year of payments in our database, and it is measured on split-adjusted amounts from a single data provider. Where the run reaches that first stored year the table shows the figure with a trailing plus and a dagger, because at that point we have run out of history rather than out of increases, and the company's own record is longer than the number in the column. Widely quoted records (the ones a company reports in its own investor materials, and the ones index providers publish) start from company filings going back further than our payment feed, and they apply their own rules on spin-offs, special dividends and payment-date shifts. Treat the figures here as the streak visible in our data, and the issuer as the authority on its record.

The list

Every security in our database matching this list's filter. Click a ticker for its full payment history.

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Our payment history for a security begins wherever the data provider's history begins (often the early 1970s), so a rising-year figure in this table counts only the years we can see: an issuer may have raised its dividend for decades before our first stored payment, which means the numbers here are frequently shorter than the record the company itself reports, and the issuer's own investor-relations page is the authority on that record.

The table below lists 100 of the 283 securities matching this filter. Ranked on the number of rising years visible in our stored payment history, then on the forward yield estimate. Both yield columns are shown; neither is a promise about the next increase. Each row shows the structure of the security, its sector, the latest stored price and market capitalisation, both yield bases, the forward dividend per share, the payment schedule, the number of rising years visible in our own payment history and the next ex-dividend date after today. It is a research screen, not a recommendation.

Rising-payment streaks in our stored history: 10 years or more — computed from stored prices and individual dividend payments. Yield (forward est.) annualises the last regular payment; Yield (trailing 12m) is the cash paid over the last 365 days. Both are divided by the latest stored price. The rising-years column counts only the years inside our own payment history.
Ticker	Name	Type	Sector	Price	Yield (forward est.)Latest payment, annualised, over today's price.	Yield (trailing 12m)	Forward div / share / yrWhat a share is on track to pay over a year.	Pays	Rising years in our historyConsecutive years the payment rose, within the history we hold.	Our history starts	5y dividend growth (CAGR)	Next ex-date (after today)
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	Common stock	Healthcare	$261.44	2.05%	2.02%	$5.36	Quarterly	55+ †	1970	5.25%	not available
EMR	Emerson Electric Co.	Common stock	Industrials	$161.83	1.37%	1.37%	$2.22	Quarterly	53+ †	1972	1.29%	not available
ED	Consolidated Edison, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$106.10	3.35%	3.31%	$3.55	Quarterly	50	1970	2.13%	not available
HTO	H2O America	Common stock	Utilities	$58.48	3.01%	2.98%	$1.76	Quarterly	45+ †	1980	5.59%	not available
WMT	Walmart Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$111.35	0.89%	0.88%	$0.99	Quarterly	43	1974	5.48%	Dec 11, 2026
PEP	PepsiCo, Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$125.97	4.70%	4.61%	$5.92	Quarterly	42	1972	6.93%	not available
GPC	Genuine Parts Company	Common stock	Consumer Cyclical	$127.02	3.35%	3.32%	$4.25	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	5.45%	not available
PPG	PPG Industries, Inc.	Common stock	Basic Materials	$103.96	2.85%	2.76%	$2.96	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	5.77%	not available
APD	Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.	Common stock	Basic Materials	$281.26	2.57%	2.57%	$7.24	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	5.90%	not available
ADP	Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	Common stock	Technology	$270.88	2.51%	2.51%	$6.80	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	11.54%	not available
BDX	Becton, Dickinson and Company	Common stock	Healthcare	$183.75	2.29%	2.16%	$4.20	Quarterly	42	1973	7.36%	not available
AFL	Aflac Incorporated	Common stock	Financial Services	$114.54	2.13%	2.10%	$2.44	Quarterly	41+ †	1984	15.68%	not available
SCL	Stepan Co	Common stock	Basic Materials	$61.03	2.59%	2.59%	$1.58	Quarterly	40+ †	1985	6.52%	not available
SHW	The Sherwin-Williams Company	Common stock	Basic Materials	$319.36	1.00%	1.00%	$3.20	Quarterly	40+ †	1985	12.08%	not available
HRL	Hormel Foods Corporation	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$19.19	6.10%	6.08%	$1.17	Quarterly	38	1985	4.52%	not available
ATO	Atmos Energy Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$161.66	2.47%	2.47%	$4.00	Quarterly	38	1985	8.97%	not available
CINF	Cincinnati Financial Corporation	Common stock	Financial Services	$163.39	2.30%	2.26%	$3.76	Quarterly	38	1984	7.71%	not available
GWW	W.W. Grainger, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$1,289.79	0.77%	0.74%	$9.96	Quarterly	37	1985	8.25%	not available
SWK	Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$88.57	3.79%	3.76%	$3.36	Quarterly	36	1985	3.49%	not available
MDU	MDU Resources Group, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$18.74	3.10%	3.01%	$0.58	Quarterly	35	1989	11.23%	not available
UVV	Universal Corporation	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$42.00	7.90%	9.81%	$3.32	Quarterly	34	1985	1.27%	not available
WTRG	Essential Utilities, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$38.98	3.70%	3.56%	$1.44	Quarterly	34	1985	6.62%	not available
PG	The Procter & Gamble Company	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$151.23	2.88%	2.84%	$4.35	Quarterly	34	1970	6.02%	not available
FUL	H.B. Fuller Company	Common stock	Basic Materials	$49.56	1.98%	1.94%	$0.98	Quarterly	34	1985	7.45%	not available
BMI	Badger Meter, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$131.38	1.34%	1.25%	$1.76	Quarterly	34	1984	16.15%	not available
ECL	Ecolab Inc.	Common stock	Basic Materials	$281.83	1.04%	1.04%	$2.92	Quarterly	34	1985	7.23%	not available
WLYB	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.	Common stock	Communication Services	$49.63	2.88%	2.15%	$1.43	Quarterly	32	1984	0.72%	not available
WLY	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.	Common stock	Communication Services	$49.64	2.88%	2.15%	$1.43	Quarterly	32	1984	0.72%	not available
BRC	Brady Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$85.35	1.17%	1.44%	$1.00	Quarterly	32	1987	2.04%	not available
MATW	Matthews International Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$18.61	5.48%	5.48%	$1.02	Quarterly	31+ †	1994	3.53%	not available
ESS	Essex Property Trust, Inc.	REIT	Real Estate	$271.57	3.81%	3.81%	$10.36	Quarterly	31+ †	1994	4.10%	not available
CFR	Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$150.24	2.74%	2.70%	$4.12	Quarterly	31	1984	6.75%	not available
EXPD	Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$193.24	0.84%	0.82%	$1.62	Semi-annual	31	1993	8.17%	not available
NEE	NextEra Energy, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$77.38	3.22%	3.15%	$2.49	Quarterly	30	1973	10.11%	not available
IBM	International Business Machines Corporation	Common stock	Technology	$227.13	2.98%	2.97%	$6.76	Quarterly	30	1970	1.52%	not available
BRO	Brown & Brown, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$62.88	1.05%	1.05%	$0.66	Quarterly	30	1987	12.09%	not available
PII	Polaris Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Cyclical	$51.60	5.27%	5.25%	$2.72	Quarterly	29	1987	1.56%	not available
YORW	The York Water Company	Common stock	Utilities	$31.06	2.94%	2.94%	$0.91	Quarterly	29	1995	4.00%	not available
NFG	National Fuel Gas Company	Common stock	Energy	$78.66	2.82%	2.77%	$2.22	Quarterly	29	1987	3.67%	not available
UHT	Universal Health Realty Income Trust	REIT	Real Estate	$37.57	7.99%	7.96%	$3.00	Quarterly	28	1987	1.41%	not available
MKC	McCormick & Company, Incorporated	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$44.81	4.28%	4.22%	$1.92	Quarterly	28	1984	7.58%	not available
ARTNA	Artesian Resources Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$33.63	3.80%	3.77%	$1.28	Quarterly	28	1994	4.10%	not available
GD	General Dynamics Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$331.27	1.92%	2.35%	$6.36	Quarterly	28	1970	6.50%	not available
CWT	California Water Service Group	Common stock	Utilities	$45.94	2.92%	2.84%	$1.34	Quarterly	27	1985	7.85%	not available
MGRC	McGrath RentCorp	Common stock	Industrials	$113.64	1.74%	1.72%	$1.98	Quarterly	27	1990	3.37%	not available
MGEE	MGE Energy, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$70.22	2.90%	2.75%	$2.03	Quarterly	26	1987	5.07%	not available
FDS	FactSet Research Systems Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$287.18	1.62%	1.57%	$4.64	Quarterly	26+ †	1999	7.45%	not available
ES	Eversource Energy	Common stock	Utilities	$65.73	4.79%	4.74%	$3.15	Quarterly	25	1973	5.81%	not available
SO	The Southern Company	Common stock	Utilities	$86.17	3.53%	3.48%	$3.04	Quarterly	25	1982	2.97%	not available
NKE	NIKE, Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Cyclical	$34.71	4.72%	4.72%	$1.64	Quarterly	24	1986	9.77%	not available
TGT	Target Corporation	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$153.77	3.02%	2.98%	$4.64	Quarterly	24	1983	11.02%	not available
RPM	RPM International Inc.	Common stock	Basic Materials	$97.73	2.21%	2.21%	$2.16	Quarterly	24	1985	7.23%	not available
LHX	L3Harris Technologies, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$236.97	2.11%	2.09%	$5.00	Quarterly	24	1982	7.14%	not available
BANF	BancFirst Corporation	Common stock	Financial Services	$106.18	1.85%	1.38%	$1.96	Quarterly	24	1991	7.56%	not available
FLO	Flowers Foods, Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$5.81	8.61%	12.82%	$0.50	Quarterly	23	1987	4.46%	not available
AVA	Avista Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$35.49	5.55%	5.54%	$1.97	Quarterly	23	1985	3.88%	not available
NJR	New Jersey Resources Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$51.21	3.91%	3.76%	$2.00	Quarterly	23	1986	7.48%	not available
PB	Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$66.11	3.63%	3.63%	$2.40	Quarterly	23	1998	4.59%	not available
LMT	Lockheed Martin Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$509.59	2.71%	2.71%	$13.80	Quarterly	23	1984	6.38%	not available
LOW	Lowe's Companies, Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Cyclical	$186.00	2.69%	2.61%	$5.00	Quarterly	23	1985	15.87%	Oct 21, 2026
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$88.05	2.41%	2.38%	$2.12	Quarterly	23	1970	4.46%	not available
CSL	Carlisle Companies Incorporated	Common stock	Basic Materials	$320.36	1.56%	1.42%	$5.00	Quarterly	23	1985	15.42%	not available
UMBF	UMB Financial Corporation	Common stock	Financial Services	$130.30	1.53%	1.37%	$2.00	Quarterly	23	1984	5.45%	not available
DOV	Dover Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$188.83	1.11%	1.10%	$2.10	Quarterly	23	1982	1.00%	not available
WST	West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.	Common stock	Healthcare	$366.00	0.24%	0.24%	$0.88	Quarterly	23	1987	5.51%	not available
RHI	Robert Half Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$33.93	6.96%	6.96%	$2.36	Quarterly	22+ †	1987	11.65%	not available
DGICA	Donegal Group Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$18.23	4.22%	4.11%	$0.77	Quarterly	22+ †	2003	3.89%	not available
SR	Spire Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$78.42	4.21%	4.21%	$3.30	Quarterly	22	1973	4.78%	not available
WEC	WEC Energy Group, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$103.74	3.67%	3.61%	$3.81	Quarterly	22	1986	7.13%	not available
XEL	Xcel Energy Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$73.78	3.21%	3.18%	$2.37	Quarterly	22	1973	10.45%	not available
MSEX	Middlesex Water Company	Common stock	Utilities	$53.43	2.70%	2.70%	$1.44	Quarterly	22	1985	5.79%	not available
CPK	Chesapeake Utilities Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$127.75	2.30%	2.22%	$2.94	Quarterly	22	1984	9.33%	not available
NOC	Northrop Grumman Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$480.72	2.06%	1.99%	$9.88	Quarterly	22	1982	9.66%	not available
TXN	Texas Instruments Incorporated	Common stock	Technology	$283.74	2.00%	2.00%	$5.68	Quarterly	22	1972	8.13%	Oct 30, 2026
WM	Waste Management, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$208.83	1.81%	1.75%	$3.78	Quarterly	22	1998	8.65%	not available
JKHY	Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.	Common stock	Technology	$149.31	1.63%	1.61%	$2.44	Quarterly	22	1990	6.17%	not available
LECO	Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$261.13	1.21%	1.21%	$3.16	Quarterly	22	1995	8.95%	not available
CLX	The Clorox Company	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$83.80	5.97%	5.93%	$5.00	Quarterly	21	1973	2.54%	not available
NWN	Northwest Natural Holding Company	Common stock	Utilities	$47.73	4.13%	4.13%	$1.97	Quarterly	21	1989	0.52%	not available
CL	Colgate-Palmolive Company	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$88.27	2.40%	2.38%	$2.12	Quarterly	21	1973	3.32%	Oct 20, 2026
SLGN	Silgan Holdings Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Cyclical	$35.44	2.37%	2.34%	$0.84	Quarterly	21+ †	2004	10.76%	not available
AIZ	Assurant, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$266.49	1.32%	1.32%	$3.52	Quarterly	21+ †	2004	5.16%	not available
CAH	Cardinal Health, Inc.	Common stock	Healthcare	$237.57	0.87%	0.86%	$2.06	Quarterly	21	1986	0.95%	not available
HCSG	Healthcare Services Group, Inc.	Common stock	Healthcare	$20.59	not available	not available	not available	Quarterly	21	1989	2.53%	not available
O	Realty Income Corporation	REIT	Real Estate	$54.18	6.01%	5.99%	$3.26	Monthly	20+ †	2005	5.12%	not available
KMB	Kimberly-Clark Corporation	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$97.59	5.25%	5.23%	$5.12	Quarterly	20	1985	3.32%	not available
EVRG	Evergy, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$80.96	3.43%	3.43%	$2.78	Quarterly	20	1973	5.64%	not available
GGG	Graco Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$78.21	1.51%	1.48%	$1.18	Quarterly	20	1985	9.46%	Oct 19, 2026
TRV	The Travelers Companies, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$368.75	1.36%	1.27%	$5.00	Quarterly	20	1985	5.24%	not available
CHD	Church & Dwight Co., Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$98.11	1.25%	1.24%	$1.23	Quarterly	20	1985	4.21%	not available
VZ	Verizon Communications Inc.	Common stock	Communication Services	$41.65	6.79%	8.41%	$2.83	Quarterly	19	1984	1.95%	not available
POR	Portland General Electric Company	Common stock	Utilities	$45.39	4.86%	4.74%	$2.21	Quarterly	19+ †	2006	5.54%	not available
DUK	Duke Energy Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$116.65	3.72%	3.67%	$4.34	Quarterly	19	1983	2.01%	not available
OGE	OGE Energy Corp.	Common stock	Utilities	$46.50	3.66%	2.74%	$1.70	Quarterly	19	1973	1.53%	not available
KR	The Kroger Co.	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$61.64	2.53%	2.34%	$1.56	Quarterly	19	1970	14.53%	Nov 16, 2026
CMCSA	Comcast Corporation	Common stock	Communication Services	$20.66	6.39%	6.39%	$1.32	Quarterly	18	1986	8.71%	not available
FRT	Federal Realty Investment Trust	REIT	Real Estate	$106.16	4.37%	4.29%	$4.64	Quarterly	18	1987	0.98%	not available
BR	Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.	Common stock	Technology	$165.45	2.64%	2.43%	$4.36	Quarterly	18+ †	2007	10.72%	not available
PRG	PROG Holdings, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$30.48	1.84%	1.80%	$0.56	Quarterly	18	1991	30.02%	not available
ENSG	The Ensign Group, Inc.	Common stock	Healthcare	$171.80	0.15%	0.15%	$0.26	Quarterly	18+ †	2007	4.51%	not available

† A figure marked with a dagger is a floor, not a total. The rising run reaches the first year of payment history we hold for that security, so the count stops where our data stops rather than where the company's record does; the real record is longer by an amount we cannot see from here. Check the issuer's investor-relations page, which publishes its own dividend history, before quoting any of these numbers as a company record.

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Data as of Oct 09, 2026.

Prices and market capitalisations last refreshed Oct 09, 2026; the yields, streaks and next ex-dates beside them were derived Oct 09, 2026. Nothing here is a live quote.

What a streak does not tell you

A streak is a description of the past. Companies with very long records have cut before, usually during a recession or after an acquisition changed the balance sheet, and the length of the record beforehand did not prevent it.

How dividend income goes wrong

A dividend is a decision, not a contract. Boards can cut or suspend a payment at any meeting, and they usually do it at the worst moment: when earnings, the balance sheet and the share price are already under pressure, so the income and the capital fall together. A yield far above its peer group is normally the market pricing in that cut rather than an oversight: the yield is high because the price has already fallen. Dividends can also shrink in real terms if they grow more slowly than inflation, and a single-stock income stream concentrates company risk, sector risk and, for foreign payers, currency and withholding risk. Past payments are a record, not a promise.

About the research score

The research score is a screen, not a recommendation and not a credit rating. It blends the current yield, how much of reported earnings the payment consumes, the length of the rising-payment run visible in our stored history and how many years of payments we hold for the security at all: both of the last two are bounded by how far back our payment data goes, so a company with a long record but a short file scores lower than one with the same record and deeper data. A high score means a security matched those four mechanical tests on the day the numbers were computed. It says nothing about what the shares will do next, and it does not know about a lawsuit, a refinancing or a lost contract. Full definitions are on the methodology page.

How this list is built

This page is a single filter applied to the same database that drives every other table on the site: a security qualifies or it does not, and the order is set by the column named in the section heading. Nothing is hand-picked, promoted or paid for, and no position on the page implies anything about the merits of the security in it.

Yields, payment schedules, rising-year counts and payout ratios are all computed from the quotes and individual payments we store, so any figure here can be checked against the payment list on the security's own page. That also sets the limit on the rising-year column: it counts within the payments we hold and stops where they start, so for a long-established payer it is a floor and the issuer's own investor-relations page is the authority on the company's record. Where we hold no data (a missing payout ratio, an unknown next ex-date), the cell is blank rather than filled with an estimate. The next ex-date column shows only dates strictly after today, because a security going ex today is already trading without that payment. Themethodology page sets out every definition in full.

Where each number on this page comes from. Price, market capitalisation and the security's name, sector and industry: Financial Modeling Prep, quote and company-screener endpoints, stored daily by pipeline/quotes.py and weekly by pipeline/universe.py. Individual dividend payments (amount, ex-date, record date, pay date and whether the payment was regular or special): Financial Modeling Prep, dividends endpoint, stored by pipeline/dividends_fmp.py. Payout ratio: Financial Modeling Prep, ratios-ttm endpoint, stored by pipeline/fundamentals.py and measured against GAAP earnings per share. Everything else, including the forward yield estimate, the trailing twelve-month yield, the payment cadence, the count of rising years and the first year of history it could be counted from, the five-year growth rate, the next ex-date and the research score, is computed on this server by pipeline/compute.py from those stored payments and prices. No vendor's own yield field is printed anywhere in this section, which is why every figure here can be traced back to a list of individual payments on the security's own page.

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The longest runs our payment history can show. Usually a short page.

Common stocks and REITs · our history only Read → Wider universe

Monthly payers

Twelve payments a year, mostly REITs, BDCs and funds.

Mixed structures Read →

Utilities

Regulated electric, gas and water names, underwritten by a rate base.

Common stocks Read →

REITs

Property income, and why the payout column misleads for it.

REITs Read → Different universe

Dividend ETFs

One decision instead of fifty, but the index rules decide what you own.

Funds, not company shares Read →

Common questions

What is the difference between the forward yield and the trailing 12-month yield in your tables?

They measure different things, so they appear in separate columns, each header names its own basis, and the two are never totalled or averaged together. The forward estimate, headed 'Yield (forward est.)', is the most recent regular payment multiplied by the number of payments per year, divided by the latest price. It is an estimate of the next twelve months on the assumption that nothing changes. The trailing figure, headed 'Yield (trailing 12m)', is the cash actually paid over the last 365 days divided by the same price, so it is a record rather than an estimate. Special dividends are excluded from the forward estimate because they are by definition not repeated, but they are inside the trailing number, which is one reason the two can differ. Where a payment cadence cannot be established, or the last payment is too old for the stream to look live, the forward column falls back to the trailing figure and the two columns show the same number.

Which securities are included in the figures on this page?

US-listed common stocks and REITs, and nothing else. Preferred series and exchange-traded baby bonds are excluded by the query: they pay a contractual coupon on a fixed face amount, which is a different instrument from a dividend a board votes on each quarter, and they are covered under preferred stocks and bonds. ETFs, closed-end funds, covered-call funds, BDCs and MLPs are also outside the set used for counts, medians, sector aggregates and the screener. Two curated lists (monthly payers and dividend ETFs) deliberately describe a wider universe, and each states at the top exactly which structures it contains.

Does 'upcoming ex-dividend date' include today?

No. On the ex-dividend date the shares already trade without the right to the payment, so a security going ex today is not an upcoming opportunity to receive that dividend; buying it this morning means the seller keeps the money. On the dividend stocks hub, securities going ex today are separated into their own labelled group rather than left inside the upcoming table, and every 'next ex-dividend date' figure on this site counts only dates strictly after today.

What does a very high yield usually mean?

Usually that the price has already fallen because the market expects the payment to be cut. Yield is a fraction: when the numerator is unchanged and the denominator collapses, the yield rises. A double-digit yield in a sector where everyone else pays 3% is a question to investigate, not a bargain to assume. It can also be an artefact: a fund distributing return of capital, a partnership passing through a one-off, or a stale price in our data.

Why is your rising-year figure shorter than the record the company reports?

Because the two count over different windows. Our figure counts consecutive rising calendar years inside the payment history stored in this database, and that history begins where our data provider's history begins: frequently the early 1970s. A company that has raised its dividend since the 1950s or 1960s was raising it long before our first stored payment, and we cannot see those years, so the number in our column stops at the edge of our file rather than at the start of the run. Where that happens the table prints the figure with a trailing plus and a dagger to mark it as a floor. It is not a correction of the company's number and it is not a competing count: the issuer's investor-relations page is the authority on its own record, and the figure here is only the part of that record we hold the payments for.