Bond ETF

iShares TIPS Bond ETF (TIP)

iShares TIPS Bond ETF trades as TIP on AMEX. This page collects what it has actually paid — every recorded payment, the calendar-year totals, the forward and trailing 12-month yields side by side against the last price, and the dates already declared.

$107.64 $0.39 (+0.36%)
52-week range $106.73 – $112.26
Bond ETF AMEXFinancial ServicesAsset Management

Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (6 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.

Forward yield Not computed: the payment cadence is irregular, so there is no number of payments a year to multiply by. The trailing figure beside it is what has actually been paid.
Trailing 12-month yield 4.94% Cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days ($5.32) divided by the last price. Backward-looking, and not comparable with a bond's yield to maturity or an index yield.
Paid over 12 months $5.32 Trailing 12 months: the regular payments actually made over the last 365 days. No forward estimate is shown because the payment cadence is irregular, so there is no number of payments a year to multiply by.
Pays Irregular No settled cadence: the last three recorded payments were not reported at the same frequency, so nothing here is annualised from a single payment.
Next ex-date First day the shares trade without the next payment attached.
Next pay date When the declared payment reaches holders.
Growth streak 0 yr No current run of increases: the most recent complete calendar year did not pay more than the year before it. Our stored payment history for this security begins in 2003.
Years paying 23 Complete calendar years with a payment in our stored history, which begins in 2003. The issuer may have paid for longer than we hold.
Payout ratio Not meaningful for this structure — GAAP earnings do not describe what it pays out.
Income score 59 0-100 research screen, not a recommendation.

The two yields above are different measurements and are not interchangeable. The forward yield annualises the last regular payment; the trailing 12-month yield counts the cash actually paid over the last 365 days. Neither is an interest rate, a bond's yield to maturity or an index effective yield, and none of those may be compared with these as like for like. See how we compute these numbers.

Our stored payment history for TIP begins in 2003. There is no current run of increases to report: either the most recent complete calendar year did not pay more than the year before it, or there is no earlier complete year in our history to compare it with.

A yield is just a payment divided by a price, so it moves every day even when the payment does not. The forward number is an estimate of the next twelve months; the trailing number is what was actually paid over the last twelve. Ex-date is the cut-off: own the shares before it and the next payment is yours, buy on or after it and the seller keeps it.

About the annual figure
Payment cadence is irregular, so the annual figure is the trailing 12 months.
Payment cadence is irregular
No regular payment cadence is established for TIP. Our data provider did not report the same frequency for three consecutive payments, so the page treats the cadence as irregular: nothing is annualised from a single payment, and no forward yield is published. The trailing 12-month figures are unaffected — they count cash that was actually paid.

iShares Trust - iShares TIPS Bond ETF is an exchange traded fund launched by BlackRock, Inc. It is managed by BlackRock Fund Advisors. The fund invests in fixed income markets of the United States. It primarily invests in U.S. dollar denominated, fixed-rate, investment grade inflation-protected public obligations of the U.S. Treasury that have at least one year remaining to maturity. The fund seeks to replicate the performance of the ICE BofA US Broad Market Index and the ICE U.S. Treasury Inflation Linked Bond Index, by using representative sampling technique. iShares Trust - iShares TIPS Bond ETF was formed on December 4, 2003 and is domiciled in the United States.

Company description supplied by the issuer and relayed by our market-data provider, not written by Income Investing. See data sources.

TIP is a bond etf. What it pays is a distribution, not interest, and that distinction matters. A distribution is whatever the fund passes through for the period — dividends and interest received from the holdings, realised capital gains, option premium where the strategy writes options, and sometimes return of capital. Only the year-end tax form breaks the payment into its parts.

Return of capital is your own money coming back. It is not taxed on receipt, but it reduces your cost basis, so the tax arrives later as a larger capital gain. A fund can therefore publish a steady-looking distribution rate while the net asset value drifts down underneath it. The distribution is set by the fund and can be changed at any time; it is never a coupon.

Figures on this page are computed by Income Investing from the payment history and last price stored in our own database; the payment records come from fmp and the price from fmp, last recomputed Aug 25, 2026. They describe what has been paid, not what will be paid. Yield, payout ratio, our data sources and our methodology are explained elsewhere on the site.

Payment history

Each row is one payment as recorded by our data provider, newest first. The final column compares it with the nearest payment about a year earlier.

The table lists the 24 most recent recorded distributions for TIP, newest first, with ex-dates running from Apr 01, 2024 to Aug 03, 2026. The latest is $0.7844 per share in USD, ex-date Aug 03, 2026, pay date Aug 06, 2026. Measured against the nearest payment about a year earlier, 13 are higher, 11 lower and 0 unchanged; the remaining 0 have no comparable payment in the record. None is flagged as a special or one-off payment. Payment records supplied by fmp.

How to read this table: one row is one payment, newest at the top, and the amount is what a single share received on that one date. It is not an annual figure — the yearly ones are in the tiles above and in the totals further down. A row marked Special is a one-off the issuer chose to make rather than part of the regular schedule, which is why it is left out of the year-on-year comparison and out of those yearly totals. Whether the amount repeats for several rows or moves every time is a fact about the structure rather than a sign of health: a company usually resets its dividend once a year, while a fund's distribution can change with every payment.

Recorded payments for TIP. Amounts are per share as declared, in USD.
Ex-dateOwn it before this day and this payment is yours. Pay date Amount per shareWhat one share received on that date, before tax. Cadence tagged by provider Type vs. a year earlier
Aug 03, 2026 Aug 06, 2026 $0.7844 Monthly Regular +196.56%
Jul 01, 2026 Jul 07, 2026 $1.0580 Monthly Regular +178.48%
Jun 01, 2026 Jun 04, 2026 $1.2775 Monthly Regular +367.77%
May 01, 2026 May 06, 2026 $0.5608 Quarterly Regular +4.84%
Dec 19, 2025 Dec 24, 2025 $0.3420 Untagged Regular +113.33%
Dec 01, 2025 Dec 04, 2025 $0.3224 Monthly Regular +69.78%
Nov 03, 2025 Nov 06, 2025 $0.3609 Monthly Regular +305.42%
Oct 01, 2025 Oct 06, 2025 $0.1981 Monthly Regular +62.98%
Sep 02, 2025 Sep 05, 2025 $0.4172 Monthly Regular +1290.71%
Aug 01, 2025 Aug 06, 2025 $0.2645 Monthly Regular +52.71%
Jul 01, 2025 Jul 07, 2025 $0.3799 Monthly Regular -13.08%
Jun 02, 2025 Jun 05, 2025 $0.2731 Monthly Regular -62.42%
May 01, 2025 May 06, 2025 $0.5350 Monthly Regular -22.84%
Apr 01, 2025 Apr 04, 2025 $0.7092 Quarterly Regular +993.67%
Dec 18, 2024 Dec 23, 2024 $0.1603 Untagged Regular -37.30%
Dec 02, 2024 Dec 05, 2024 $0.1899 Monthly Regular -25.72%
Nov 01, 2024 Nov 06, 2024 $0.0890 Monthly Regular -80.29%
Oct 01, 2024 Oct 04, 2024 $0.1215 Monthly Regular -29.13%
Sep 03, 2024 Sep 06, 2024 $0.0300 Monthly Regular -90.72%
Aug 01, 2024 Aug 06, 2024 $0.1732 Monthly Regular -21.48%
Jul 01, 2024 Jul 05, 2024 $0.4371 Untagged Regular -13.25%
Jun 03, 2024 Jun 07, 2024 $0.7268 Monthly Regular +132.51%
May 01, 2024 May 07, 2024 $0.6933 Monthly Regular +21.83%
Apr 01, 2024 Apr 05, 2024 $0.0648 Monthly Regular -49.11%

The cadence column is the tag our provider attached to that individual payment (fmp), not the security's established schedule. The two can disagree, which is why the cadence shown in the tiles above is only accepted after three consecutive payments were tagged the same way.

A blank comparison means there was no comparable payment within sixty days of the same point a year earlier — a new payer, a changed cadence, or a gap in the record. Special and one-off payments are labelled and are excluded from the comparison.

Distributions by calendar year

Calendar-year totals, bucketed by ex-dividend date: every regular distribution whose ex-dividend date fell in that year, for the last ten complete years on record. These are amounts actually paid, never a forward estimate, and they are not the issuer's own annual distribution figure.

The chart covers 10 complete calendar years for TIP, 2016 to 2025, per share, in USD. Each bar totals the regular distributions with an ex-dividend date in that calendar year. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, which is not necessarily the issuer's own distribution year. Our stored payment history for TIP begins in 2003. The total went from $1.67 in 2016 to $3.80 in 2025 — 128% higher. Within that span 6 years were higher than the year before and 4 lower. The three most recent years shown are 2023 $2.94, 2024 $2.69 and 2025 $3.80. The current year is still in progress and is left out, and special or one-off payments are excluded. This is a record of what was paid, not a projection. The cadence on record for TIP is irregular, so the number of payments a complete calendar year should contain is not fixed and no per-year count check is applied to these bars. Read each total as the payments we hold with an ex-dividend date in that year, nothing more.

Each bar, and each row underneath it, is one calendar year of regular payments added together for a single share. Read left to right and you are reading whether the payment has grown, held or been cut — a record of what was paid, never a forecast of what will be. One thing to watch for: a year here is decided by the date the payment went ex, so when that date slips across a year end one year holds an extra payment and its neighbour is one short while the payment itself never moved. Any year where that has happened is drawn as a dashed bar and marked with an asterisk, and it is the usual reason these totals differ from the annual figure the issuer itself publishes.

2016: $1.6707 per share from 5 payments. 1.67 2016 2017: $2.3656 per share from 10 payments. 2.37 2017 2018: $2.9655 per share from 11 payments. 2.97 2018 2019: $2.0441 per share from 9 payments. 2.04 2019 2020: $1.4917 per share from 7 payments. 1.49 2020 2021: $5.5286 per share from 10 payments. 5.53 2021 2022: $7.4080 per share from 10 payments. 7.41 2022 2023: $2.9357 per share from 9 payments. 2.94 2023 2024: $2.6860 per share from 10 payments. 2.69 2024 2025: $3.8023 per share from 10 payments. 3.80 2025
Bar height is the total per share of the regular distributions whose ex-dividend date fell in that calendar year, in USD. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, not by the issuer's own distribution year and not by the date the cash arrived. These are a trailing record — never the forward estimate shown in the tiles above.
Complete calendar years only, bucketed by ex-dividend date — the current year is still in progress and is left out.
Year Paid per share that yearEvery regular payment dated in that year, added up, for one share. Payments in the yearA count that differs from the usual one means a payment moved across a year end. Change on the year before
2016 $1.67 5 +352.33%
2017 $2.37 10 +41.59%
2018 $2.97 11 +25.36%
2019 $2.04 9 -31.07%
2020 $1.49 7 -27.02%
2021 $5.53 10 +270.61%
2022 $7.41 10 +33.99%
2023 $2.94 9 -60.37%
2024 $2.69 10 -8.51%
2025 $3.80 10 +41.56%
What can go wrong
A bond fund has no maturity date, so there is no par value to wait for. When yields rise, the share price falls and stays down until the portfolio rolls into higher-coupon bonds. Credit funds add default risk on top of that, high-yield holdings can gap lower in a stress event, and the distribution changes as the manager reinvests maturing bonds at whatever the market pays that month.

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These are not the best-paying securities of this kind, and no ranking is meant by the order. They are the ones whose trailing 12-month yield sits nearest to this one, in the same structure and usually the same sector, so that this security can be seen in company rather than on its own. Every figure here is backward-looking cash that has already been paid. A row that sits well away from the rest is a question to take to that security's own page, not an answer.

Ticker Name Price Trailing 12m yieldCash paid out over the last year, over today's price. Paid over 12 months Pays
BLV Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF $66.83 4.91% $3.28 Monthly
SCHP Schwab US TIPS ETF $26.09 5.00% $1.30 Irregular
VTC Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF $75.61 5.00% $3.78 Monthly
VCIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF $81.58 4.86% $3.96 Monthly
USIG iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF $50.54 4.81% $2.43 Monthly
EMB iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF $95.38 5.11% $4.87 Monthly
VGLT Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF $53.56 4.71% $2.52 Monthly
TLT iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF $83.47 4.68% $3.90 Monthly

Every row in this table is on the same basis — cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days, divided by that security's last price — so the column can be read down. Forward estimates are deliberately not used here, because they exist for some securities and not others and a mixed column would invite a comparison that does not hold. A dash means no payment was recorded in the last 365 days, or no price is on file. Open a security to see both of its yields.

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Questions about TIP

Does TIP pay a distribution, and how often?
Yes. The payment cadence recorded for TIP is irregular: the last three payments in our history were not reported at the same frequency, so no schedule is assumed and no single payment is annualised. The annual figure works out at $5.32 per share. Trailing 12 months: the regular payments actually made over the last 365 days. No forward estimate is shown because the payment cadence is irregular, so there is no number of payments a year to multiply by. The last ex-date in our history is Aug 03, 2026.
What is the yield on TIP, and is it forward or trailing?
No forward yield is published for TIP, because the payment cadence is irregular, so there is no number of payments a year to multiply by. The trailing 12-month yield is 4.94%: the $5.32 per share actually paid over the last 365 days, divided by the same price. Neither number is a bond's yield to maturity, an index effective yield or an interest rate, and none of those should be compared with these as like for like. Yield also moves inversely with price, so it rises when the market marks the security down — a high number is a question, not an answer.
When is the next TIP ex-dividend date?
No future ex-date has been declared or collected for TIP yet. The last one on record was Aug 03, 2026.
Why is there no meaningful payout ratio for TIP?
A payout ratio compares a dividend to accounting earnings. For a bond etf the payment is not funded out of GAAP net income — REITs and BDCs pay out of taxable income under distribution rules, funds pass through whatever the portfolio produced, and partnerships distribute cash flow. Analysts use structure-specific measures instead, such as funds from operations for REITs or net investment income for BDCs.
Is the TIP distribution the same as interest?
No. A distribution is whatever the vehicle chooses or is required to pass through in that period. It can contain dividends, interest, realised gains, option premium and return of capital, and only the year-end tax form shows the split. Return of capital is your own money coming back: it is not taxed on receipt, but it lowers your cost basis and therefore raises the gain you are taxed on later.
Has the TIP payment grown?
Over the complete calendar years in our history, the total went from $1.67 in 2016 to $3.80 in 2025. The chart on this page shows every year in between, including any cuts. Those totals bucket each payment by its ex-dividend date, so a payment whose ex-dividend date shifts across a year end falls into the neighbouring calendar year. Past payment history describes what happened, not what will happen.
How to read this page
Nothing on this page is investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold or sell TIP. Figures are drawn from third-party market data and our own calculations, may be delayed or wrong, and can change without notice. Confirm every number with the issuer and with your own broker, tax adviser and financial adviser before acting.

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