Dividend Comparisons
Two payers set against each other on what each actually distributed. No price talk, no computed yields, no verdicts. A pair publishes only when both records run deep enough to make the comparison mean something, and every figure is rebuilt from source records on each deploy.
Published Comparisons
How a Pair Earns a Page
Most comparison pages on the web are template output: two tickers, a returns chart, and a paragraph that could describe any pair. We build one only when the distribution records on both sides are deep enough that the comparison is stable, meaning six quarters of recorded payments and a complete trailing twelve months for each ticker. Below that line, a single missing quarter can flip which fund looks like the bigger payer.
The second test is whether the page adds anything. Where the existing results already answer the question well, another table of the same figures is noise, so the pair stays on the list rather than becoming a page. Either way both tickers stay readable on their own pages, which is where the full record lives.
What we will not do on a comparison page: compute a yield, quote a price, project a total return, or name a winner. The record shows what each payer paid and when, which is a narrower question than which one to own, and treating the two as the same question is how comparison pages mislead people.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a comparison page here actually compare?
What each payer distributed: trailing twelve-month totals per share, payment cadence, which months carried an ex-date, how far the payments spread between smallest and largest, and calendar-year growth where the records support it. Every figure is recomputed from the compiled records on each build.
Why is there no verdict on which one is better?
A distribution record cannot answer it. Total return, valuation, tax treatment in your account, and how the fund behaves in a drawdown all sit outside what these records contain, and we do not publish buy or sell opinions. The pages show what each fund paid and let the gap speak.
Why do so few pairs publish?
Two gates. Both tickers need at least six quarters of recorded history and a complete trailing twelve months, and the pair has to be one where a page adds something the existing results do not already carry. 1 pair clear both today.
Can you compare per-share payouts directly?
Only with care. A fund paying $6 per share is not paying more than one paying $1 per share unless you also know what a share costs, and we publish no prices. That is why the head-to-head tables show sponsor-published yields with their kind and as-of date rather than a yield we invented.
Every covered ticker's full record is on the dividend tables. For the calendar view, see payments by month; for the income arithmetic, the calculator hub. Gates and method are written out on the methodology page.