Dividends

AT&T's dividend has sat at $0.28 for eight straight quarters while 2026 buybacks jump toward $10 billion, a stark shift in capital returns.

Microsoft's payout ratio just slid to 18.90%, its second lowest reading in two years, while the dividend keeps climbing. Here's what it means.

A -988.31% payout ratio sounds like disaster, but Pfizer's CEO just vowed the dividend survives even the most stretched scenario management can run.

Coca-Cola stock's dividend looks shaky, with its payout ratio swinging from 2.67% to 193.22% within a year, but free cash flow says otherwise.

Verizon's payout ratio hit 124.34% one quarter, then fell to 77.03% the next. Here's what the dividend record actually shows.

Realty Income stock's payout ratio hit 220.02%, down from a 369.42% peak last year, yet its $0.81 quarterly dividend hasn't budged in four quarters.

Costco vs Altria is the dividend debate in miniature: growth or yield. TIKR's models run both to 2030, and one payout clearly builds more wealth.

CVS Health's payout ratio dropped to 29% while the quarterly dividend held at $0.67 for eight straight quarters. The yield fell to 2.47%.

Cisco's payout ratio just fell to 49% from 74% two years ago, even as the dividend climbed to $0.42 a share.

Texas Instruments free cash flow hit $4.4 billion trailing 12 months, more than double last year's $1.7 billion. The dividend followed.

Union Pacific's payout ratio sits at 48% after adjusted EPS grew 9%. The dividend has room most stocks never get.

Nucor's payout ratio just fell to 17% after a record 7-million-ton quarter, and the yield sits at 1.0%. Here's what the dividend data shows.

NextEra Energy stock's dividend jumped to $0.62 a share while its payout ratio settled at just 59.6%. Here's what that combination signals.

Dominion Energy stock's yield fell to 3.82% this month. TIKR's model still sees $93 ahead, but whose dividend policy gets you there is now the real question.

AEP Stock's payout ratio swung from 137% to 41% in a single year before settling at 60%, even as the quarterly dividend climbed to $0.95.

Dow raised its own guidance to $2.2 billion, but told investors the extra cash is going to debt, not the dividend, in the near term.

Lockheed Martin's payout ratio hit 225% last year. Today it sits at 55%. Here's what changed in between.

Kinder Morgan stock's payout ratio just fell to 67%, down from 111% less than two years ago. Here's why the dividend barely moved.

Kraft Heinz stock's payout ratio swung from 473% to -167% before settling near 59%. Here's what that means for the 6.5% yield.

BP's dividend has held at $0.08 every quarter since mid-2024, but its payout ratio just swung from negative 37% to 33% in one quarter.

Alphabet just raised its dividend 5% the same quarter free cash flow fell to $10.1 billion. Here's what the payout ratio says about it.

McDonald's payout ratio just climbed back to 60%. Here's what that means for a dividend that's risen every year since 2021.

VICI committed $1.2 billion in new capital last quarter. TIKR's model still sees 52% upside to $41 by 2031.

IBM's payout ratio spiked to 130% last quarter, yet the dividend hasn't moved from $1.68 in over a year. Here's what's really funding it.

Enbridge's payout ratio spiked past 351% in 2024 and still tops 100% today, even as the dividend keeps climbing on its 31-year streak record.

Procter & Gamble's $1.06 quarterly dividend just extended a 70-year raise streak, and the 64% payout ratio says there's still room underneath it.

Target's payout ratio just hit 66%, nearly 30 points above the 40% goal management set for itself, even as another raise is already planned.

Bank of America stock yields 2% near its one-year low, but the shrinking payout ratio says the dividend story is just warming up.