DLN Dividend Calculator
WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund distributes every month. The field below opens with DLN's own recorded trailing payout of $1.7250 per share, as of 2026-08-25.
Payout figures read from WisdomTree on Aug 25, 2026. You supply the share price. The DLN record page holds every payment behind these figures.
What the DLN Calculator Loads, and the Arithmetic Behind It
The 12 DLN payments with ex-dates between August 26, 2025 and August 25, 2026 add up to $1.7250 per share once split adjustment is applied. Worked on a round position, 1,000 shares collected 1,000 × $1.7250 = $1,725.04 across that window, which is $143.75 a month if you flatten it and $143.75 per payment on the 12-payment cadence. The calculator performs the same multiplication against whatever share count your investment and share price produce.
Year one of the model is that same multiplication; each later year multiplies $1.7250 by one plus the growth rate you type. The methodology page states the rest.
What DLN's monthly Cadence Does to the Model
DLN 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 DLN 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 DLN ex-dates ran 27 to 33 days, median 30.
Reinvesting each of those 12 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 DLN's own payment weights, a 1.8% distribution rate gives 0.82% more first-year income, and a 4% distribution rate gives 1.82% more first-year income, and a 20% distribution rate gives 9.53% 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 DLN it is 45.1%: 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%. DLN sits near the even end, which is where the annual-step model understates reinvestment most.
Where DLN's Cash Actually Landed
The 12 complete calendar months ending Jul 2026, from DLN'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 1 | $0.1100 | $110.00 | 6.4% |
| Sep 2025 | 1 | $0.2050 | $205.00 | 11.9% |
| Oct 2025 | 1 | $0.1100 | $110.00 | 6.4% |
| Nov 2025 | 1 | $0.0950 | $95.00 | 5.5% |
| Dec 2025 | 1 | $0.2700 | $270.04 | 15.7% |
| Jan 2026 | 1 | $0.0550 | $55.00 | 3.2% |
| Feb 2026 | 1 | $0.1150 | $115.00 | 6.7% |
| Mar 2026 | 1 | $0.2050 | $205.00 | 11.9% |
| Apr 2026 | 1 | $0.1200 | $120.00 | 7.0% |
| May 2026 | 1 | $0.1300 | $130.00 | 7.5% |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | $0.2050 | $205.00 | 11.9% |
| Jul 2026 | 1 | $0.1050 | $105.00 | 6.1% |
| 12 months | 12 | $1.7250 | $1,725.04 | 100.0% |
Dec 2025 was the largest month at $0.2700 per share, carrying 15.7% of the 12-month total on its own. The quietest was Jan 2026 at $0.0550, a factor of 4.9 between the two.
Shares and Capital for a Monthly Income Target from DLN
Share counts that would have produced each monthly target at DLN's recorded trailing payout of $1.7250 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 DLN 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 | DLN Shares | Average per Payment |
|---|---|---|---|
| $200 | $2,400 | 1,392 | $200.10 |
| $750 | $9,000 | 5,218 | $750.10 |
| $2,000 | $24,000 | 13,913 | $2,000.04 |
| $5,000 | $60,000 | 34,782 | $5,000.03 |
On the record above, that same 13,913-share position aiming at $2,000 a month would have collected $3,757.07 in Dec 2025 and $765.22 in Jan 2026. The average is not the month. The record-side arithmetic, at different target levels, is on the DLN record page.
The Growth Input for DLN
DLN has a realised rate you can use instead of a guess: 4.3% a year, measured as the compound annual rate between DLN's split-adjusted 2007 payout of $0.7807 and its 2025 payout of $1.6750, which is 18 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 DLN's payout against holding it flat. The cumulative column sums the payout from year one through the year shown.
| Year | Flat at $1.7250 | At 4.3% | Cumulative at 4.3% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $1.7250 | $1.7250 | $1.73 |
| Year 5 | $1.7250 | $2.0439 | $9.41 |
| Year 10 | $1.7250 | $2.5267 | $21.03 |
| Year 20 | $1.7250 | $3.8613 | $53.17 |
By year twenty the difference between 4.3% and zero is $2.1363 per share, which is 124% 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 DLN Hard to Model
Each item is triggered by something computed from DLN's own record and carries the figure that triggered it.
A single DLN payment is a bad basis for an annual figure. Across trailing twelve months the smallest DLN payment was $0.0550 on January 27, 2026 and the largest $0.2700 on December 26, 2025, a spread of 391%. Multiplying those by the 12 payments a year the cadence implies gives $3.24 against $0.66 per share, so the annual dividend field could be filled with figures 4.9 times apart depending only on which payment you happened to look at. Use a summed trailing figure rather than any one payment.
DLN pays every month, but not the same amount each month. Across the 12 complete months in the window, Dec 2025 delivered $0.2700 per share and Jan 2026 delivered $0.0550, a factor of 4.9. A projection reports one annual number; Dec 2025 alone carried 16% of the window's total. Treat the average month as an accounting convenience rather than a budget.
The model deducts no fees, and DLN charges 0.28% a year. Fund expenses come out of the fund before a distribution is declared, so DLN's recorded payments are already net of them and the income column needs no adjustment. The value column is a different matter: compounded over a twenty-year projection, a 0.28% annual charge accounts for about 5.5% of the position, and the projection shows none of it. Read the ending value as a pre-fee, pre-tax figure.
DLN's record crosses a share split, and the calculator loads the adjusted figure. DLN split 2-for-1 on December 22, 2021. Every figure this page feeds the calculator is restated in current share terms, so a pre-split payment is comparable with a post-split one. If you pull an annual dividend figure from a source that does not adjust, the split reads as a cut of 50% and the projection inherits it. See what split adjustment does to the arithmetic.
WisdomTree publishes a 30-day SEC yield for DLN, which is not the payout this page loads. The published figure is 1.75% as of 2026-08-17. A 30-day SEC yield is a standardised calculation on the fund's net investment income over one month, built so bond funds can be compared with each other. It is not the cash the fund distributed, and it is not what a dividend calculator wants in the annual dividend field. Our record puts DLN's trailing twelve months of actual distributions at $1.7250 per share, and that is the figure this page pre-loads.
Starting a DLN Projection Today
A projection books a full year of income in year one. Today is August 26, 2026, 238 days into 2026. DLN has already gone ex-dividend 7 times in 2026, for $0.9350 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 DLN. That is a read of the record rather than a schedule DLN has published.
Nothing further is declared for DLN 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 DLN?
$1.7250 per share, the sum of the 12 split-adjusted DLN payments with ex-dates between August 26, 2025 and August 25, 2026, read from WisdomTree: DLN 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 DLN calculator?
The rate DLN's own record realised is 4.3% a year, measured as the compound annual rate between DLN's split-adjusted 2007 payout of $0.7807 and its 2025 payout of $1.6750, which is 18 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 DLN shares would pay $5,000 a month?
About 34,782 shares at the trailing payout of $1.7250 per share, which is $60,000 a year. Spread over 12 payments a year that averages $5,000.03 a payment, and the payments are not equal. What that costs depends on the price you pay, which we do not publish.
Does the projection subtract DLN's 0.28% expense ratio?
Not separately, and on the income side it does not need to: DLN's recorded distributions are already net of fund expenses, because the fee comes out before a distribution is declared. The value column is where the omission bites, since the projection grows the position at whatever price growth you type with no annual charge deducted from it.
Why does the DLN 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 DLN 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 DLN 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.