BND Dividend History

• Pays: monthly — 230 dividends since May 2007, with extra year-end distributions in some Decembers.
• Trailing 12 months: $2.92 per share across 12 payments — up 5% from $2.78 the year before, and still climbing off the zero-rate era.
• What it holds: thousands of investment-grade U.S. bonds — Treasuries, agency mortgage bonds, and corporates — the broad market in one ticker.
• Fee: 0.03% — the cheapest expense ratio of any fund we chart, one-thirtieth of a typical option-income fund.
• Yield context: the trailing payout is roughly 4.0% of the recent ~$72.61 share price.

BND's dividend is a thermometer for the whole bond market, and it reads slowly: the fund holds thousands of bonds that mature and get replaced a little at a time, so its monthly payment drifts over years, not weeks. The record shows the round trip — down to $0.129 a month in March 2021 at the bottom of the zero-rate era, back to about $0.25 now.

Each point is one BND dividend since May 2007 — 230 of them. The long sag through the 2010s and the rebuild after 2022 are interest-rate history, drawn in monthly checks.

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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.

• Trailing 12 months: $2.94 per share across 12 payments — up 5% from $2.81 in the 12 months before. What a change like that does to your income →
• Current pace: recent payments annualize to $2.98 — 1% above the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
• Share price, same 12 months: down 6% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
• Record: 232 payments over 19 years; the largest single payment was $0.596 (Dec 2011).
• Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: none. Get one short email if that changes →
• Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±2% around their median. Compare that against any fund →

Every figure above is computed from BND's actual payment record and share-price history as of the date shown — not copied from a fact sheet. Recomputed regularly; the chart above always shows the live data.

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"Next expected" is estimated from BND's recent payment rhythm — the fund announces exact dates shortly before each payout, and the data feed can lag a few days. You must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout; the cash typically arrives days later. See every fund's upcoming date on the live dividend calendar.

A real total-return estimate, assuming every payout was reinvested — including what happened to the share price. Before taxes and fees. Past performance does not predict the future.

BND's payment chart is the cleanest record we have of what happened to savers' income: checks shrank for a decade as old bonds matured into a zero-rate world — bottoming at $0.129 in March 2021 — then rebuilt after 2022 as new bonds arrived with real coupons. The trailing year paid $2.92 per share, up 5%, and the direction is still gently up as the portfolio keeps turning over into today's rates.

Its long-duration cousin TLT makes the same income with far bigger price swings; SCYB pays more by accepting credit risk. The compare tool shows what each extra point of yield actually costs.

Data source: Yahoo Finance. Figures are per share; the current year may be partial and figures should be verified against official sources.

Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.