Dividend Payments by Month
Twelve pages built from recorded ex-dividend dates rather than from a fund's stated schedule. Each one lists the covered payers that actually went ex in that month over the trailing 24 months, with the amounts and the source date attached.
Every Month in Coverage
January
20 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in January, made up of 8 monthly funds and 12 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
February
23 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in February, made up of 11 monthly funds and 12 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
March
32 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in March, made up of 11 monthly funds and 21 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
April
29 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in April, made up of 17 monthly funds and 12 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
May
30 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in May, made up of 17 monthly funds and 13 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
June
38 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in June, made up of 17 monthly funds and 21 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
July
31 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in July, made up of 17 monthly funds and 14 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
August
21 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in August, made up of 9 monthly funds and 12 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
September
18 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in September, made up of 8 monthly funds and 10 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
October
10 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in October, made up of 8 monthly funds and 2 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
November
14 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in November, made up of 9 monthly funds and 5 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
December
21 covered payers recorded an ex-dividend date in December, made up of 9 monthly funds and 12 on a quarterly or seasonal cycle.
What the Calendar Shows
The monthly funds do most of the work here. Coverage holds 17 of them, and they turn up on every month page from their first recorded payment onward. Several launched partway through the trailing 24-month window, which is why a given month page carries anywhere from 8 to 17 of them. The variation between months comes mostly from the quarterly payers: March, June, September, December average 16.0 non-monthly payers each, while the other eight months average 10.3. That is the March, June, September, December cycle most US dividend ETFs and large-cap payers run on.
The practical consequence for anyone spacing out income: pairing quarterly payers that share a cycle stacks the money into four months and leaves eight thin. The month pages make that visible payer by payer, and the monthly payers screen lists the funds that smooth it without any pairing at all.
All twelve months clear the coverage threshold, so each one publishes with a full payer list rather than a placeholder.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is each month page built?
A ticker appears under a month when it has an actual recorded ex-dividend date in that calendar month within the trailing 24 months, read from its issuer's or sponsor's own records. Declared future dates are listed separately from history, because an announcement is a fact about the future and a pattern is not.
Which months have the most dividend payers?
In our coverage, June carries the most with 38 payers holding a recorded ex-date, and October the fewest with 10. The quarter-end months average 16.0 non-monthly payers against 10.3 in the other eight, which is the quarterly cycle showing through.
Why are some months not published?
A month page publishes only when at least 8 covered payers have a recorded payment in it. Below that line the page would be a list of three tickers pretending to be a guide, so it waits until coverage supports it. 12 of the 12 months clear that bar today.
Can I build a monthly income schedule from this?
It shows what actually happened, which is the right starting point, but a schedule built from it inherits two limits: coverage here is our compiled set rather than every security that pays, and issuers change both timing and amounts. Monthly payers appear in every month by definition, so the mix of monthly and quarterly payers matters more than the raw count.
Full coverage sits on the dividend tables, where payment months appear as a twelve-cell strip per ticker. Two payers can be set against each other on the comparison pages, and the income arithmetic is on the calculator hub. Gates and method are on the methodology page.