DEM Dividend Calculator
WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund distributes every quarter. The field below opens with DEM's own recorded trailing payout of $2.2449 per share, as of 2026-08-25.
Payout figures read from WisdomTree on Aug 25, 2026. You supply the share price. The DEM record page holds every payment behind these figures.
What the DEM Calculator Loads, and the Arithmetic Behind It
The 5 DEM payments with ex-dates between September 25, 2025 and August 25, 2026 add up to $2.2449 per share once split adjustment is applied. Worked on a round position, 1,000 shares collected 1,000 × $2.2449 = $2,244.94 across that window, which is $187.08 a month if you flatten it and $561.24 per payment on the 4-payment cadence. The calculator performs the same multiplication against whatever share count your investment and share price produce.
Those 5 payments span 334 days rather than a full 365, because our DEM record opens on December 17, 2007. The sum is a complete cadence year, meaning the full number of payments DEM's schedule implies, rather than a complete calendar one. Read it as slightly conservative for a full year, and re-check it once the record deepens.
Year one of the model is that same multiplication; each later year multiplies $2.2449 by one plus the growth rate you type. The methodology page states the rest.
What DEM's quarterly Cadence Does to the Model
DEM distributes every quarter, which is 4 payments a year. The projection above steps once a year, so a twenty-year run performs 20 reinvestments where DEM would have offered 80. Every payment between the annual steps is treated as though it arrived on the last day of the year. Observed gaps between DEM ex-dates ran 5 to 92 days, median 91.
Reinvesting each of those 5 payments as it landed, rather than once at the end of the year, earns more than the annual step shows, because earlier shares collect later payments. Holding the share price flat so timing is the only moving part, and computed from DEM's own payment weights, a 4% distribution rate gives 1.45% more first-year income, and a 20% distribution rate gives 7.46% more first-year income. The effect scales with the rate you are modelling, which is why it matters more for a high-distribution fund than for a slow grower, and it stays small next to the variability in the payout itself.
One term decides how far the annual step falls short, and for DEM it is 36.1%: a measure of how evenly the window's cash is split across its payments. A single lump scores zero, four equal payments 37.5%, twelve 45.8%, and fifty-two 49.0%. DEM sits below the even end, because its cash is concentrated into fewer or more unequal payments, and the annual step distorts less there than it would for a smooth stream.
Where DEM's Cash Actually Landed
The 11 complete calendar months ending Jul 2026, from DEM's recorded ex-dates, split-adjusted, as of 2026-08-25. Income is what 1,000 shares would have collected. A projection divides one annual figure by twelve; the record did this instead.
| Month | Payments | Per Share | On 1,000 Shares | Share of Window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 1 | $0.8000 | $800.00 | 35.6% |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Dec 2025 | 2 | $0.4849 | $484.94 | 21.6% |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Mar 2026 | 1 | $0.2350 | $235.00 | 10.5% |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| May 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | $0.7250 | $725.00 | 32.3% |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| 11 months | 5 | $2.2449 | $2,244.94 | 100.0% |
Sep 2025 was the largest month at $0.8000 per share, carrying 35.6% of the 11-month total on its own. 7 of the 11 months paid nothing at all, which is what a quarterly or occasional schedule looks like once a monthly income plan is laid over it.
Shares and Capital for a Monthly Income Target from DEM
Share counts that would have produced each monthly target at DEM's recorded trailing payout of $2.2449 per share, as of 2026-08-25. This is division on a recorded figure, not advice, and the payout can move. We hold no price for DEM and publish none, so there is no capital column. Multiply the share count by the price you can actually buy at.
| Monthly Target | A Year | DEM Shares | Average per Payment |
|---|---|---|---|
| $200 | $2,400 | 1,070 | $600.52 |
| $750 | $9,000 | 4,010 | $2,250.55 |
| $2,000 | $24,000 | 10,691 | $6,000.16 |
| $5,000 | $60,000 | 26,727 | $15,000.13 |
Read the monthly column as an average rather than a schedule. On the record above, 7 of the last 11 months delivered nothing, so a holder of 10,691 shares aiming at $2,000 a month received it in 4 lumps instead. The record-side arithmetic, at different target levels, is on the DEM record page.
The Growth Input for DEM
DEM has a realised rate you can use instead of a guess: 1.1% a year, measured as the compound annual rate between DEM's split-adjusted 2008 payout of $1.9020 and its 2025 payout of $2.2799, which is 17 years of record. A realised rate is still an assumption about the future once you type it into a projection, but it is an assumption with a measurement behind it, which an invented 8% is not.
Per share, with no price assumption anywhere in it, this is what that rate does to DEM's payout against holding it flat. The cumulative column sums the payout from year one through the year shown.
| Year | Flat at $2.2449 | At 1.1% | Cumulative at 1.1% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $2.2449 | $2.2449 | $2.24 |
| Year 5 | $2.2449 | $2.3428 | $11.47 |
| Year 10 | $2.2449 | $2.4710 | $23.56 |
| Year 20 | $2.2449 | $2.7491 | $49.78 |
By year twenty the difference between 1.1% and zero is $0.5041 per share, which is 22% of the flat figure. That is the sensitivity of an entire projection to one field. Run it at the realised rate, run it again at zero, and treat the gap between the two answers as the honest result.
What Makes DEM Hard to Model
Each item is triggered by something computed from DEM's own record and carries the figure that triggered it.
A single DEM payment is a bad basis for an annual figure. Across trailing twelve months the smallest DEM payment was $0.0720 on December 31, 2025 and the largest $0.8000 on September 25, 2025, a spread of 1010%. Multiplying those by the 4 payments a year the cadence implies gives $3.20 against $0.29 per share, so the annual dividend field could be filled with figures 11.1 times apart depending only on which payment you happened to look at. Use a summed trailing figure rather than any one payment.
DEM's payments moved inside the window the model treats as one flat year. Splitting the 5 payments at March 11, 2026, the 3 before it averaged $0.4283 and the 2 after averaged $0.4800, which is 12% larger. The projection model has no way to represent a drift inside a year: it takes one annual figure and one growth rate. Feeding it a trailing total that spans both halves builds in a payout level that neither half actually paid.
7 of the last 11 months paid DEM holders nothing. The monthly income figure a projection implies is an annual total divided by twelve. On the record, DEM's cash arrived in 4 of 11 calendar months, with Sep 2025 the largest at $0.8000 per share. Anyone planning to spend the income needs the payment months, not the average, and the months are in the table above.
Starting a DEM Projection Today
A projection books a full year of income in year one. Today is August 26, 2026, 238 days into 2026. DEM has already gone ex-dividend 2 times in 2026, for $0.9600 per share, and buying now collects none of it. On the observed cadence, about 2 more payments would fall before 31 December, which is 50% of a normal year for DEM. That is a read of the record rather than a schedule DEM has published.
Nothing further is declared for DEM on our record, so every payment inside the projection is a modelled one. Based on the 91-day gap the record shows, the next ex-date would ordinarily land between Sep 14, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, which is a pattern rather than an announcement. Read year one as twelve months from your purchase date, not the rest of this calendar year.
Frequently Asked Questions
What annual dividend figure should I use for DEM?
$2.2449 per share, the sum of the 5 split-adjusted DEM payments with ex-dates between September 25, 2025 and August 25, 2026, read from WisdomTree: DEM fund page, distribution history CSV export on 2026-08-25. It is already in the field. It records what was paid; it is not a rate the payer has committed to.
What growth rate should I put in the DEM calculator?
The rate DEM's own record realised is 1.1% a year, measured as the compound annual rate between DEM's split-adjusted 2008 payout of $1.9020 and its 2025 payout of $2.2799, which is 17 years of record. Using a realised rate beats inventing one, though it is still an assumption about the future rather than a property of it. Run the projection at that rate and again at zero, and read the gap as the answer.
How many DEM shares would pay $5,000 a month?
About 26,727 shares at the trailing payout of $2.2449 per share, which is $60,000 a year. Spread over 4 payments a year that averages $15,000.13 a payment, and the payments are not equal. What that costs depends on the price you pay, which we do not publish.
Are taxes included in the DEM projection?
No. Every figure the calculator produces is pre-tax and ignores trading costs. Fund distributions can carry components taxed differently from qualified dividends, and the split arrives with the year-end tax documents rather than with each payment.
Why does the DEM calculator ask me for the share price?
Because we publish no prices. Every figure here carries the date its source was read, and a live quote cannot. WisdomTree publishes no distribution rate for DEM that we could turn into an implied price by arithmetic, so the price field starts empty.
Every payment, split adjustment, and calendar-year total behind these figures is on the DEM dividend history page. Other quarterly payers in coverage are on the coverage table. The general-purpose tools sit on the calculator hub, and the model is written out on the methodology page.