Dividends

One utility pays the bigger check today. The other has raised its dividend 23 years in a row.

An 8% yield that's still growing, or a 5.4% yield coming off a reset?

Same drug, same deadline, very different cushions.

One grows its payout much faster. The other starts with more than 2.5 times the yield. Here's how the math plays out.

Dow's payout ratio swung from 229% to -928% to 402% in six quarters. Here's what that means for the $0.35 dividend.

ZIM's payout ratio swung from 2066% one quarter to negative 123% two quarters later, even as its per-share dividend recovered to $0.88.

Lockheed Martin's payout ratio spiked to a stunning 225% in mid-2025, and management explained on the call exactly why that wasn't a warning sign.

Kinder Morgan stock's payout ratio just climbed back to 77% after bottoming near 66%, and that shift changes the dividend math.

Kraft Heinz stock's dividend yield hit 6.59% just as its payout ratio flipped negative again. Here's what that combination really means for income investors.

McDonald's stock's payout ratio has swung as high as 67.77% and as low as 53.08%, yet the dividend keeps climbing anyway.

VICI Properties' payout ratio just spiked to 91.33%, its highest level yet, while VICI stock's dividend yield touched 7.64%, its own high.

Enbridge's payout ratio just hit 148% again, even with 31 straight years of dividend increases behind it. Here's what that tension actually means.

3M's payout ratio swung from 28% to 67% and back to 43%, and the dividend never once looked at risk.

JPMorgan stock's payout ratio just dropped to 20.52% the same quarter the dividend moved to $1.65.

MPLX stock's payout ratio spiked to 119.85% in March 2026, then eased back to 101.39% as the quarterly distribution held steady at $1.08 per share.

Annaly's EAD hit $0.79 a share, the ninth straight quarter it topped the dividend before the board raised the payout to $0.75.

A payout ratio that swung from 89% to under 49% in a year says more about Home Depot's dividend than the yield alone does.

LyondellBasell's quarterly dividend dropped sharply from $1.37 to $0.69 a share, while its payout ratio settled at a lean 40% by mid-2026.

Procter & Gamble's payout ratio suddenly jumped to 85.71% in one quarter, even as its dividend climbed to $1.09 a share, and TIKR still eyes $204.

Bank of America returned $8 billion to shareholders this quarter while its payout ratio fell to 25.68%, its lowest level in two years.

Target's payout ratio just plunged to 27.60%, its lowest print in two years, right as management steers the dividend toward a stated 40% target.

AbbVie's payout ratio swung from a loss-making -12,509.09% to a peak of 1,565.05%, before settling at 84.97% as the dividend climbed to $1.73.

Broadcom's dividend held at $0.65 a share again this fiscal quarter, but the yield backing it slipped to 0.84%, near its two-year floor of 0.56%.

Enterprise's payout ratio just fell to 64.64% this quarter, yet management's own trailing-twelve-month calculation puts it at a tamer 56% of cash flow.

International Business Machines paid $3.2 billion in dividends through H1 2026, holding free cash flow flat at $4.8 billion as payout ratio hit 73.44%.

Alphabet's payout ratio dropped to 2.40% this quarter, while its dividend climbed to $0.22 a share and its yield sits at 0.26%. Here's what it means.

Johnson & Johnson stock's yield just fell to 2.01%, barely above its 1.92% two-year low, even as the dividend hit $1.34. Here's what's next.

Walmart's payout ratio dropped to 30.99%, the lowest point in its recent trajectory, even as the quarterly dividend climbed to $0.25 a share.