VYM Dividend Calculator

The 4 VYM payments with ex-dates between September 19, 2025 and August 17, 2026 add up to $3.6303 per share once split adjustment is applied. Worked on a round position, 1,000 shares collected 1,000 × $3.6303 = $3,630.30 across that window, which is $302.53 a month if you flatten it and $907.58 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 332 days rather than a full 365, because our VYM record opens on March 21, 2025. The sum is a complete cadence year, meaning the full number of payments VYM'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 $3.6303 by one plus the growth rate you type. The methodology page states the rest.

VYM 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 VYM 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 VYM ex-dates ran 90 to 91 days, median 91.

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 VYM's own payment weights, a 4% distribution rate gives 1.51% more first-year income, and a 20% distribution rate gives 7.74% 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 VYM it is 37.4%: 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%. VYM 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.

There is no rate VYM'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 VYM record starts 2025-03-21 and holds one complete calendar year across 6 payments. On the record we hold, the rolling comparison can first be computed on March 21, 2027 and the calendar-year comparison on January 1, 2028, so this figure fills in around March 2027 as long as VYM keeps distributing on its current schedule.

Leave the field at zero for the run you take seriously, which models VYM 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.

A projection books a full year of income in year one. Today is August 21, 2026, 233 days into 2026. VYM has already gone ex-dividend 2 times in 2026, for $1.8412 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 VYM. That is a read of the record rather than a schedule VYM has published.

Nothing further is declared for VYM 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 7, 2026 and Sep 27, 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.