Dividend Calendar

Upcoming ex-dividend dates for 18 popular income funds — computed live from each fund's real payment rhythm.

Upcoming Ex-Dividend Dates (Expected)

Sorted soonest first. Dates are projections from each fund's actual payment rhythm — funds announce exact dates only days in advance. Rows highlighted in gold are expected within a week.

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Click any ticker for its complete payment history, chart, and backtest. You must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout; cash typically arrives days later. Trailing yield = last 12 months of payments ÷ current price — a rearview mirror, not a promise.

How This Calendar Works (and Why It Doesn't Go Stale)

Most dividend calendars are lists someone typed and forgot to update. This one rebuilds itself on every visit: it pulls each fund's complete live payment history, measures its actual rhythm — weekly payers every ~7 days, monthly payers every ~30 — and projects the next ex-dividend date from the most recent one. When a fund pays, the calendar moves itself forward. No stale rows, no hand-editing.

The honest limitation: these are expected windows, not announcements. Funds set exact dates only shortly before each payout, and any fund can shift its schedule. Weekly and monthly payers usually land within a day or two of the projection; use the fund's own press releases for to-the-day precision on a specific payment.

The Ex-Dividend Date, in Plain English

The ex-dividend date is the cutoff: own shares before it and the payment is yours; buy on or after it and that payment belongs to the seller. (The money itself lands a few days later, on the payment date.) One classic beginner mistake this calendar helps avoid: buying a fund the day after it goes ex-dividend and waiting a full cycle for the first check. Another classic mistake it can't fix: buying just for the dividend — share prices typically drop by roughly the payout amount on the ex-date, so there's no free money in timing it. Our guide What Are Dividends? covers the mechanics.

Go Deeper on Any Fund

Every ticker above links to its full history page — every payment ever made, an interactive chart, yearly totals, a $50-a-month backtest, and honest plain-English answers. Browse them all on the dividend history hub, or settle a head-to-head with live data on the comparison pages (JEPI vs JEPQ, SCHD vs JEPI, and more).

Turn Dates Into a Plan

Knowing when funds pay is step one — seeing what steady investing in them becomes is the fun part.

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Educational content only — not financial advice. Expected dates are estimates computed from third-party payment data that may contain errors or delays; funds announce official dates themselves. Past distributions do not guarantee future payments. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.