DES Dividend Calculator
WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund distributes every month. Our DES record covers 113 days, short of the twelve months a trailing payout needs, so the field below opens empty rather than part-filled.
Enter the share price you are paying to see the projection. We publish no price data, so this is the one figure the page cannot fill in for you.
Payout figures read from WisdomTree on Aug 18, 2026. You supply the share price. The DES record page holds every payment behind these figures.
What the DES Calculator Loads, and the Arithmetic Behind It
Our DES record holds 4 payments between April 27, 2026 and July 28, 2026, totalling $0.3050 per share across 113 days. Worked on a round position, 1,000 shares collected $305.00 of cash over that stretch. That is a real figure for a real period, and it is not an annual dividend.
Turning it into one would mean multiplying by 3.23 to stretch 113 days to 365. The record argues against that. Splitting the window at June 22, 2026, the 2 payments before it averaged $0.0575 and the 2 after averaged $0.0950, a difference of 65%. Which end you scale from decides the answer, which is the definition of a figure the record does not support. The field stays empty and you enter the figure you want to model.
On the record we hold, a trailing twelve-month sum first becomes computable around April 27, 2027, assuming DES keeps distributing on its current schedule. Until then the honest input is a number you chose and can explain. Every payment behind these totals is listed on the DES record page.
What DES's monthly Cadence Does to the Model
DES distributes every month, which is 12 payments a year. The projection above steps once a year, so a twenty-year run performs 20 reinvestments where DES would have offered 240. Every payment between the annual steps is treated as though it arrived on the last day of the year. Observed gaps between DES ex-dates ran 29 to 33 days, median 30.
We put no number on the reinvestment-timing effect for DES. Measuring it means running a year of payments through a reinvestment sequence, and our record covers 113 days across 4 payments. A figure computed on that and labelled first-year would be a year-shaped number that is not a year.
One term decides how far the annual step falls short, and for DES it is 34.0%: 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%. DES 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 DES's Cash Actually Landed
The 4 complete calendar months ending Jul 2026, from DES's recorded ex-dates, split-adjusted, as of 2026-08-18. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | 1 | $0.0600 | $60.00 | 19.7% |
| May 2026 | 1 | $0.0550 | $55.00 | 18.0% |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | $0.1450 | $145.00 | 47.5% |
| Jul 2026 | 1 | $0.0450 | $45.00 | 14.8% |
| 4 months | 4 | $0.3050 | $305.00 | 100.0% |
Jun 2026 was the largest month at $0.1450 per share, carrying 47.5% of the 4-month total on its own. The quietest was Jul 2026 at $0.0450, a factor of 3.2 between the two.
Shares and Capital for a Monthly Income Target from DES
We cannot compute this for DES without inventing the input. Shares needed for a monthly target is that target times twelve divided by an annual payout per share, and our DES record covers 113 days rather than a year, so there is no annual payout to divide by. The 4 payments we hold total $0.3050 per share, which is what those 113 days paid and nothing more. On the current schedule the missing arithmetic becomes available around April 27, 2027. Until then, enter your own annual figure in the calculator above and read its first-year income line, which is the same division performed on your assumption rather than on ours.
The Growth Input for DES
There is no rate DES's record supports, and this page will not invent one. Growth needs two complete calendar years of payouts, or two full years of coverage. Our DES record starts 2026-04-27 and holds no complete calendar year yet across 4 payments. On the record we hold, the rolling comparison can first be computed on April 26, 2028 and the calendar-year comparison on January 1, 2029, so this figure fills in around April 2028 as long as DES keeps distributing on its current schedule.
Leave the field at zero for the run you take seriously, which models DES paying what it has paid, then run it again at a rate you can defend. The distance between the two answers is the part that came from you rather than from the record.
What Makes DES Hard to Model
Each item is triggered by something computed from DES's own record and carries the figure that triggered it.
DES's record cannot supply a growth rate, so any rate you type is invented. A growth figure needs two comparable windows to set against each other, and our DES record holds 4 payments from April 27, 2026 with no complete calendar year in them yet. One window is not a comparison. On our DES record the earliest it can be filled is April 2028.
A single DES payment is a bad basis for an annual figure. Across trailing twelve months the smallest DES payment was $0.0450 on July 28, 2026 and the largest $0.1450 on June 25, 2026, a spread of 222%. Multiplying those by the 12 payments a year the cadence implies gives $1.74 against $0.54 per share, so the annual dividend field could be filled with figures 3.2 times apart depending only on which payment you happened to look at. Use a summed trailing figure rather than any one payment.
DES's payments moved inside the window the model treats as one flat year. Splitting the 4 payments at June 22, 2026, the 2 before it averaged $0.0575 and the 2 after averaged $0.0950, which is 65% 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.
DES pays every month, but not the same amount each month. Across the 4 complete months in the window, Jun 2026 delivered $0.1450 per share and Jul 2026 delivered $0.0450, a factor of 3.2. A projection reports one annual number; Jun 2026 alone carried 48% of the window's total. Treat the average month as an accounting convenience rather than a budget.
Starting a DES Projection Today
A projection books a full year of income in year one. Today is August 21, 2026, 233 days into 2026. DES has already gone ex-dividend 4 times in 2026, for $0.3050 per share, and buying now collects none of it. On the observed cadence, about 5 more payments would fall before 31 December, which is 42% of a normal year for DES. That is a read of the record rather than a schedule DES has published.
Nothing further is declared for DES on our record, so every payment inside the projection is a modelled one. Based on the 30-day gap the record shows, the next ex-date would ordinarily land between Aug 18, 2026 and Sep 5, 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 DES?
None that we can hand you. Our DES record starts April 27, 2026 and holds 4 payments totalling $0.3050 per share across 113 days, which is less than a year, so any annual figure would be that sum scaled by an assumption we have no basis for. The field opens empty on purpose. On the record we hold, a trailing twelve-month sum first becomes computable around April 27, 2027 if DES keeps distributing on its current schedule.
What growth rate should I put in the DES calculator?
Zero for the run you take seriously, then a second run at a rate you can defend out loud. DES has no two comparable windows on our record, so there is no realised rate to offer you and we will not invent one. On our DES record the earliest it can be filled is April 2028.
Are taxes included in the DES 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 DES 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 DES 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 DES dividend history page. Other monthly 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.