IDV Dividend Calculator
iShares International Select Dividend ETF distributes every quarter. The field below opens with IDV's own recorded trailing payout of $2.2766 per share, as of 2026-08-18.
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 iShares on Aug 18, 2026. You supply the share price. The IDV record page holds every payment behind these figures.
What the IDV Calculator Loads, and the Arithmetic Behind It
The 4 IDV payments with ex-dates between September 16, 2025 and August 18, 2026 add up to $2.2766 per share once split adjustment is applied. Worked on a round position, 1,000 shares collected 1,000 × $2.2766 = $2,276.57 across that window, which is $189.71 a month if you flatten it and $569.14 per payment on the 4-payment cadence. The calculator performs the same multiplication against whatever share count your investment and share price produce.
Those 4 payments span 336 days rather than a full 365, because our IDV record opens on March 22, 2024. The sum is a complete cadence year, meaning the full number of payments IDV'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 $2.2766 by one plus the growth rate you type. The methodology page states the rest.
What IDV's quarterly Cadence Does to the Model
IDV 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 IDV 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 IDV ex-dates ran 90 to 92 days, median 90.
Reinvesting each of those 4 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 IDV's own payment weights, a 4% distribution rate gives 1.33% more first-year income, and a 4.6% distribution rate gives 1.53% more first-year income, and a 20% distribution rate gives 6.80% 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 IDV it is 33.1%: 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%. IDV 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 IDV's Cash Actually Landed
The 11 complete calendar months ending Jul 2026, from IDV'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 1 | $0.3821 | $382.06 | 16.8% |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Dec 2025 | 1 | $0.5919 | $591.92 | 26.0% |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Mar 2026 | 1 | $0.2009 | $200.95 | 8.8% |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| May 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | $1.1016 | $1,101.64 | 48.4% |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 0.0% |
| 11 months | 4 | $2.2766 | $2,276.57 | 100.0% |
Jun 2026 was the largest month at $1.1016 per share, carrying 48.4% 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 IDV
Share counts that would have produced each monthly target at IDV's recorded trailing payout of $2.2766 per share, as of 2026-08-18. This is division on a recorded figure, not advice, and the payout can move. We hold no price for IDV 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 | IDV Shares | Average per Payment |
|---|---|---|---|
| $200 | $2,400 | 1,055 | $600.44 |
| $750 | $9,000 | 3,954 | $2,250.39 |
| $2,000 | $24,000 | 10,543 | $6,000.46 |
| $5,000 | $60,000 | 26,356 | $15,000.30 |
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 10,543 shares aiming at $2,000 a month received it in 4 lumps instead. The record-side arithmetic, at different target levels, is on the IDV record page.
The Growth Input for IDV
IDV has a realised rate you can use instead of a guess: 10.2% a year, measured as the compound annual rate between IDV's split-adjusted 2024 payout of $1.7683 and its 2025 payout of $1.9492, which is 1 year 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 IDV's payout against holding it flat. The cumulative column sums the payout from year one through the year shown.
| Year | Flat at $2.2766 | At 10.2% | Cumulative at 10.2% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $2.2766 | $2.2766 | $2.28 |
| Year 5 | $2.2766 | $3.3614 | $13.96 |
| Year 10 | $2.2766 | $5.4712 | $36.69 |
| Year 20 | $2.2766 | $14.4942 | $133.89 |
By year twenty the difference between 10.2% and zero is $12.2176 per share, which is 537% 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 IDV Hard to Model
Each item is triggered by something computed from IDV's own record and carries the figure that triggered it.
A single IDV payment is a bad basis for an annual figure. Across trailing twelve months the smallest IDV payment was $0.2009 on March 17, 2026 and the largest $1.1016 on June 15, 2026, a spread of 448%. Multiplying those by the 4 payments a year the cadence implies gives $4.41 against $0.80 per share, so the annual dividend field could be filled with figures 5.5 times apart depending only on which payment you happened to look at. Use a summed trailing figure rather than any one payment.
IDV's payments moved inside the window the model treats as one flat year. Splitting the 4 payments at March 3, 2026, the 2 before it averaged $0.4870 and the 2 after averaged $0.6513, which is 34% 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 IDV holders nothing. The monthly income figure a projection implies is an annual total divided by twelve. On the record, IDV's cash arrived in 4 of 11 calendar months, with Jun 2026 the largest at $1.1016 per share. Anyone planning to spend the income needs the payment months, not the average, and the months are in the table above.
The model deducts no fees, and IDV charges 0.50% a year. Fund expenses come out of the fund before a distribution is declared, so IDV'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 0.50% annual charge accounts for about 9.5% of the position, and the projection shows none of it. Read the ending value as a pre-fee, pre-tax figure.
iShares (BlackRock) publishes a 30-day SEC yield for IDV, which is not the payout this page loads. The published figure is 4.61% as of 2026-07-31. 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 IDV's trailing twelve months of actual distributions at $2.2766 per share, and that is the figure this page pre-loads.
Starting a IDV Projection Today
A projection books a full year of income in year one. Today is August 21, 2026, 233 days into 2026. IDV has already gone ex-dividend 2 times in 2026, for $1.3026 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 IDV. That is a read of the record rather than a schedule IDV has published.
Nothing further is declared for IDV on our record, so every payment inside the projection is a modelled one. Based on the 90-day gap the record shows, the next ex-date would ordinarily land between Sep 3, 2026 and Sep 23, 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 IDV?
$2.2766 per share, the sum of the 4 split-adjusted IDV payments with ex-dates between September 16, 2025 and August 18, 2026, read from iShares: IDV fund page (distributions) on 2026-08-18. 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 IDV calculator?
The rate IDV's own record realised is 10.2% a year, measured as the compound annual rate between IDV's split-adjusted 2024 payout of $1.7683 and its 2025 payout of $1.9492, which is 1 year 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 IDV shares would pay $5,000 a month?
About 26,356 shares at the trailing payout of $2.2766 per share, which is $60,000 a year. Spread over 4 payments a year that averages $15,000.30 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 IDV's 0.50% expense ratio?
Not separately, and on the income side it does not need to: IDV'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 IDV 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. iShares (BlackRock) publishes no distribution rate for IDV 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 IDV 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.