KO Dividend Calculator

The 4 KO payments with ex-dates between September 15, 2025 and August 17, 2026 add up to $2.0800 per share once split adjustment is applied. Worked on a round position, 1,000 shares collected 1,000 × $2.0800 = $2,080.00 across that window, which is $173.33 a month if you flatten it and $520.00 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 KO record opens on March 14, 2024. The sum is a complete cadence year, meaning the full number of payments KO'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 $2.0800 by one plus the growth rate you type. The methodology page states the rest.

KO 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 KO 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 KO ex-dates ran 77 to 102 days, median 92.

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 KO's own payment weights, a 4% distribution rate gives 1.51% more first-year income, and a 20% distribution rate gives 7.75% 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 KO it is 37.5%: 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%. KO 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.

KO has a realised rate you can use instead of a guess: 5.2% a year, measured as the compound annual rate between KO's split-adjusted 2024 payout of $1.9400 and its 2025 payout of $2.0400, 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 KO's payout against holding it flat. The cumulative column sums the payout from year one through the year shown.

By year twenty the difference between 5.2% and zero is $3.3251 per share, which is 160% 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.

A projection books a full year of income in year one. Today is August 21, 2026, 233 days into 2026. KO has already gone ex-dividend 2 times in 2026, for $1.0600 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 KO. That is a read of the record rather than a schedule KO has published.

One payment is already declared: $0.5300 per share with an ex-date of September 15, 2026, payable October 1, 2026. Shares have to be owned before the ex-date to collect it, and that is a fact from the issuer rather than a pattern we read. Read year one as twelve months from your purchase date, not the rest of this calendar year.