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Dividend stocks

Monthly dividend stocks

Securities that pay twelve times a year rather than four — mostly REITs, BDCs, closed-end funds and covered-call funds, plus a handful of operating companies.

Securities in this list 159
Median forward yield est. 6.43% Last regular payment annualised ÷ price. Middle of the list, not an average
Median trailing 12m yield 6.49% Cash actually paid over the last 365 days ÷ price
Most rising years in our history 20+ 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 Aug 27 Earliest ex-date strictly after today
Which securities this list covers
This list is not restricted to common stocks. It covers every structure we track that pays twelve times a year — common stocks, REITs, ETFs, covered-call funds, closed-end funds, BDCs and MLPs — because a monthly schedule is mostly a fund and pass-through phenomenon and an equities-only version of this page would misdescribe the market. The Type column names the structure for every row, and it matters: a fund's monthly distribution is set by a policy and can include return of capital, while a company's monthly dividend is a board decision out of earnings. Preferred series and exchange-traded baby bonds are excluded, as they are everywhere in this section, because their monthly payment is contractual interest rather than a dividend.

A monthly payment schedule is a cash-flow convenience, not a different kind of income. Twelve payments of a twelfth are the same annual amount as four payments of a quarter, give or take the few weeks of interest you earn by receiving it sooner. What monthly payers genuinely change is the matching problem: household bills arrive monthly, and income that arrives on the same rhythm needs less holding and less planning.

The list is dominated by particular structures rather than particular industries. REITs collect rent monthly and can distribute it monthly. BDCs and closed-end funds run managed distribution policies, which are designed to pay a steady headline amount every month. Covered-call funds collect option premium continuously and hand it out on the same cadence. Ordinary operating companies paying monthly are the exception, not the rule.

That composition matters more than the schedule. Because so many monthly payers are funds, a monthly distribution can include return of capital — money handed back to you out of the fund's own assets rather than out of income it earned. That is not automatically bad, and for some strategies it is unavoidable accounting, but it does mean the headline yield can overstate what the portfolio is actually generating. The fund's own Section 19 notice, not the yield column, is where that gets settled.

Two mechanical points. Monthly payers have twelve ex-dates a year, so the holding-period test for qualified dividend treatment is easier to fail if you trade around them. And most fund distributions are not qualified in the first place, which for a US taxable account means ordinary-income rates on income that arrives twelve times a year.

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.

The list

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

Monthly payers in the screener →

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 159 securities matching this filter. Ranked on the forward yield estimate, with the trailing twelve-month yield beside it. For fund rows in particular, read the gap between the two: a managed distribution that was recently reset shows up there before it shows up anywhere else on this page. 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. The screener covers common stocks and REITs only, so it will return the equity subset of this list rather than all of it.

Monthly dividend stocks — 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.
Save Ticker Name Type Sector Price Market cap 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 yrs (our history) Next ex-date (after today)
OXSQ Oxford Square Capital Corp. BDC Financial Services $1.37 $143.93M 30.66% 30.66% $0.42 Monthly 0 Sep 16, 2026
PNNT PennantPark Investment Corporation BDC Financial Services $3.81 $248.78M 25.20% 25.20% $0.96 Monthly 0
OXLC Oxford Lane Capital Corp. Closed-end fund Financial Services $9.58 $935.01M 25.05% 40.19% $2.40 Monthly 0 Sep 16, 2026
GOF Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $9.63 $2.04B 22.69% 22.69% $2.19 Monthly 0
HRZN Horizon Technology Finance Corporation BDC Financial Services $4.77 $238.89M 22.64% 23.27% $1.08 Monthly 0 Sep 16, 2026
CRF Cornerstone Total Return Fund, Inc. Closed-end fund Financial Services $6.48 $767.41M 21.78% 21.73% $1.41 Monthly 1 Sep 15, 2026
CLM Cornerstone Strategic Value Fund, Inc. Closed-end fund Financial Services $6.74 $1.91B 21.63% 21.69% $1.46 Monthly 1 Sep 15, 2026
IVR Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. REIT Real Estate $7.44 $690.61M 19.35% 22.31% $1.44 Monthly 0
BCAT BlackRock Capital Allocation Trust Closed-end fund Financial Services $15.88 $1.66B 19.21% 19.70% $3.05 Monthly 0 Sep 15, 2026
ECC Eagle Point Credit Company Inc. Closed-end fund Financial Services $3.83 $506.36M 18.80% 33.42% $0.72 Monthly 0 Sep 10, 2026
PSEC Prospect Capital Corporation BDC Financial Services $2.35 $1.18B 17.87% 21.70% $0.42 Monthly 0 Aug 27, 2026
ORC Orchid Island Capital, Inc. REIT Real Estate $6.72 $1.17B 17.86% 20.24% $1.20 Monthly 0 Aug 31, 2026
ARR ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. REIT Real Estate $16.40 $1.91B 17.56% 17.56% $2.88 Monthly 0
PDI PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $15.46 $7.14B 17.12% 17.12% $2.65 Monthly 0
SAR Saratoga Investment Corp. BDC Financial Services $18.42 $300.44M 16.29% 17.64% $3.00 Monthly 0 Sep 03, 2026
CION CION Investment Corporation BDC Financial Services $7.51 $373.92M 15.98% 20.24% $1.20 Monthly 0 Sep 11, 2026
DX Dynex Capital, Inc. REIT Real Estate $13.01 $3.22B 15.68% 15.68% $2.04 Monthly 2
QQQI NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $54.12 $13.64B 14.46% 14.13% $7.82 Monthly 1+ †
JEPQ JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $59.75 $41.74B 14.16% 10.92% $8.46 Monthly 2
FSCO FS Credit Opportunities Corp. Common stock Financial Services $5.07 $1.03B 14.06% 14.94% $0.71 Monthly 3+ †
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. BDC Financial Services $7.42 $736.20M 13.47% 15.80% $1.00 Monthly 0
AGNC AGNC Investment Corp. REIT Real Estate $10.91 $12.52B 13.20% 13.20% $1.44 Monthly 0 Aug 31, 2026
TYG Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corporation Common stock Financial Services $43.25 $745.16M 13.18% 12.67% $5.70 Monthly 0 Sep 23, 2026
PAXS PIMCO Access Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $14.11 $663.50M 12.71% 12.71% $1.79 Monthly 0
DSL DoubleLine Income Solutions Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $10.66 $1.22B 12.38% 12.38% $1.32 Monthly 0
RYLD Global X - Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $16.26 $1.38B 12.20% 11.53% $1.98 Monthly 1
SPYI Neos S&P 500(R) High Income ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $53.53 $10.54B 12.15% 11.83% $6.50 Monthly 0
PDO Pimco Dynamic Income Opportunities Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $12.65 $1.80B 12.13% 12.13% $1.53 Monthly 0
QYLD Global X - Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $18.13 $8.56B 12.11% 11.72% $2.19 Monthly 0
PTY PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $11.82 $2.51B 12.06% 12.06% $1.43 Monthly 0
SCM Stellus Capital Investment Corporation BDC Financial Services $8.66 $250.68M 11.54% 16.51% $1.00 Monthly 0 Aug 31, 2026
EFC Ellington Financial Inc. REIT Real Estate $13.58 $1.70B 11.49% 11.49% $1.56 Monthly 0 Aug 31, 2026
RA Brookfield Real Assets Income Closed-end fund Financial Services $12.60 $696.21M 11.24% 11.24% $1.42 Monthly 0 Sep 10, 2026
ARDC Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. Closed-end fund Financial Services $12.31 $295.02M 10.97% 10.97% $1.35 Monthly 0
TRIN Trinity Capital Inc. BDC Financial Services $18.70 $1.68B 10.91% 11.82% $2.04 Monthly 0 Sep 10, 2026
THQ Abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $19.88 $823.78M 10.87% 10.87% $2.16 Monthly 0
BLW BlackRock Limited Duration Income Trust Closed-end fund Financial Services $12.80 $500.28M 10.61% 10.61% $1.36 Monthly 0 Sep 15, 2026
GPIQ Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Premium Income ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $56.50 $1.21B 10.33% 10.02% $5.83 Monthly 2+ †
SBR Sabine Royalty Trust Common stock Energy $74.46 $1.09B 9.98% 6.41% $7.43 Monthly 1
JPC Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $7.54 $2.83B 9.95% 10.11% $0.75 Monthly 0
PFFA Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF ETF Financial Services $20.97 $2.44B 9.90% 9.83% $2.08 Monthly 4
PBP Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $23.20 $343.29M 9.69% 10.39% $2.25 Monthly 3
CSWC Capital Southwest Corporation BDC Financial Services $25.21 $1.57B 9.21% 10.16% $2.32 Monthly 0 Sep 15, 2026
GOOD Gladstone Commercial Corporation REIT Real Estate $13.12 $635.10M 9.15% 9.15% $1.20 Monthly 0 Sep 21, 2026
GLAD Gladstone Capital Corporation BDC Financial Services $19.84 $448.25M 9.07% 8.82% $1.80 Monthly 0 Sep 21, 2026
XYLD Global X - S&P 500 Covered Call ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $41.36 $3.21B 9.02% 10.47% $3.73 Monthly 0
RQI Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund, Inc. Closed-end fund Financial Services $12.41 $1.67B 8.70% 8.70% $1.08 Monthly 1 Sep 08, 2026
EOS Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II Closed-end fund Financial Services $21.44 $1.14B 8.52% 8.52% $1.83 Monthly 0
TLTW iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $21.49 $1.85B 8.50% 10.85% $1.83 Monthly 0
KNG FT Cboe Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $51.77 $3.45B 8.39% 8.14% $4.34 Monthly 0
GPIX Goldman Sachs S&P 500 Premium Income ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $56.10 $1.17B 8.38% 8.06% $4.70 Monthly 2+ †
ETY Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $14.39 $2.29B 8.27% 8.27% $1.19 Monthly 0
AMZA InfraCap MLP ETF ETF Financial Services $49.61 $449.86M 8.22% 7.82% $4.08 Monthly 3
ETW Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $9.85 $1.07B 8.09% 8.09% $0.80 Monthly 0
RNP Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred Income Fund, Inc. Common stock Financial Services $20.46 $982.08M 7.98% 7.98% $1.63 Monthly 0 Sep 08, 2026
ETV Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Opportunities Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $15.10 $1.76B 7.89% 7.89% $1.19 Monthly 0
SPME Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. Common stock Financial Services $25.10 $515.48M 7.84% 7.84% $1.97 Monthly 0 Sep 15, 2026
AWF AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $10.18 $877.82M 7.72% 7.72% $0.79 Monthly 0
BDJ BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust Closed-end fund Financial Services $9.80 $1.73B 7.58% 8.73% $0.74 Monthly 1 Sep 15, 2026
JEPI JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $58.14 $45.33B 7.57% 7.88% $4.40 Monthly 1
HTD John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $25.34 $897.84M 7.48% 7.48% $1.90 Monthly 1
UTF Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund, Inc Closed-end fund Financial Services $27.33 $2.64B 7.24% 6.98% $1.98 Monthly 0 Sep 08, 2026
NEA Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $11.27 $3.37B 7.24% 7.24% $0.82 Monthly 0
NAD Nuveen Quality Municipal Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $11.69 $2.73B 7.24% 7.24% $0.85 Monthly 0
SHYG iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $42.35 $7.65B 6.95% 6.98% $2.94 Monthly 1
CII BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund, Inc. Closed-end fund Financial Services $24.35 $997.95M 6.95% 15.98% $1.69 Monthly 2 Sep 15, 2026
CRT Cross Timbers Royalty Trust Common stock Energy $10.61 $63.66M 6.94% 5.29% $0.74 Monthly 1 Aug 31, 2026
ANGL VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $29.11 $3.14B 6.94% 6.49% $2.02 Monthly 3
USHY iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $36.95 $28.74B 6.91% 6.90% $2.55 Monthly 0
SJNK State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $24.92 $4.90B 6.84% 6.98% $1.70 Monthly 0
EVT Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $29.05 $2.17B 6.80% 6.80% $1.98 Monthly 0
UTG Reaves Utility Income Fund Closed-end fund Financial Services $38.26 $3.50B 6.59% 6.33% $2.52 Monthly 1 Sep 17, 2026
JNK State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $96.20 $7.40B 6.58% 6.59% $6.33 Monthly 2
PGX Invesco Preferred ETF ETF Financial Services $10.64 $3.81B 6.56% 6.48% $0.70 Monthly 1
SPFF Global X - SuperIncome Preferred ETF ETF Financial Services $9.51 $141.78M 6.56% 6.57% $0.62 Monthly 0
FALN iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $27.11 $1.65B 6.55% 6.49% $1.78 Monthly 0
BALI iShares U.S. Large Cap Premium Income Active ETF Covered-call ETF Financial Services $34.70 $1.36B 6.55% 7.65% $2.27 Monthly 2+ †
PGF Invesco Financial Preferred ETF ETF Financial Services $13.50 $683.18M 6.54% 6.49% $0.88 Monthly 0
PFFD Global X - U.S. Preferred ETF ETF Financial Services $18.50 $2.15B 6.49% 6.49% $1.20 Monthly 0
ECCC Eagle Point Credit Company Inc. Common stock Financial Services $25.26 $519.04M 6.43% 6.43% $1.63 Monthly 0 Sep 10, 2026
DIV Global X - SuperDividend U.S. ETF ETF Financial Services $19.91 $754.93M 6.39% 6.37% $1.27 Monthly 1
LAND Gladstone Land Corporation REIT Real Estate $8.78 $378.74M 6.38% 6.38% $0.56 Monthly 0 Sep 21, 2026
VWOB Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $66.31 $6.82B 6.27% 5.83% $4.16 Monthly 4
EPR EPR Properties REIT Real Estate $60.33 $4.62B 6.17% 5.99% $3.72 Monthly 2 Aug 31, 2026
BST BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Closed-end fund Financial Services $49.55 $1.72B 6.05% 8.48% $3.00 Monthly 1 Sep 15, 2026
FPE First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF ETF Financial Services $17.70 $6.30B 6.03% 5.98% $1.07 Monthly 1
EMLC VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $25.91 $4.95B 6.00% 6.13% $1.55 Monthly 1
PFXF VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF ETF Financial Services $18.00 $2.69B 5.87% 6.51% $1.06 Monthly 0
PCY Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $21.16 $1.42B 5.87% 5.94% $1.24 Monthly 0
GAIN Gladstone Investment Corp. BDC Financial Services $16.49 $656.66M 5.82% 5.82% $0.96 Monthly 0 Sep 21, 2026
HYG iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $79.92 $17.26B 5.77% 5.86% $4.61 Monthly 0
APLE Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. REIT Real Estate $16.74 $3.95B 5.73% 5.73% $0.96 Monthly 0 Aug 31, 2026
MTR Mesa Royalty Trust Common stock Energy $2.65 $4.94M 5.65% 5.65% $0.15 Monthly 0
DOC Healthpeak Properties, Inc. REIT Real Estate $21.66 $14.93B 5.63% 5.63% $1.22 Monthly 1 Sep 14, 2026
LTC LTC Properties, Inc. REIT Real Estate $40.69 $2.08B 5.60% 5.60% $2.28 Monthly 0 Sep 22, 2026
PFF iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF ETF Financial Services $30.68 $13.26B 5.57% 5.40% $1.71 Monthly 0
MAIN Main Street Capital Corporation BDC Financial Services $58.54 $5.44B 5.43% 7.36% $3.18 Monthly 0 Sep 08, 2026
SOR Source Capital, Inc. Common stock Financial Services $46.77 $384.96M 5.34% 5.34% $2.50 Monthly 0 Sep 16, 2026
EMB iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $95.38 $14.75B 5.20% 5.11% $4.96 Monthly 2
VTC Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF Bond ETF Financial Services $75.61 $1.76B 5.18% 5.00% $3.91 Monthly 4

† 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 Aug 25, 2026.

Prices and market capitalisations last refreshed Aug 25, 2026; the yields, streaks and next ex-dates beside them were derived Aug 25, 2026. Nothing here is a live quote.

Managed distributions are not guaranteed income
A steady monthly headline distribution is a policy, not a measurement. Funds can and do fund part of it from capital, and can reset it downwards without warning when the underlying income falls.
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. The methodology 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 — 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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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.

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