- Pays: quarterly — 198 dividends in our record since February 1970.
- The streak: annual payouts have risen for 38 consecutive full years in our data.
- Current rate: $1.78 per quarter — $7.05 over the trailing twelve months.
- Today's yield: about 3.5% on the recent ~$199.89 share price — meaningfully above XOM's, the premium the market grants Exxon's slightly longer streak.
- The compounding exhibit: a split-adjusted share paid about $0.04 per quarter in 1970 and $1.78 now — roughly a 40-fold rise.
Figures are split-adjusted and may book an occasional payment into an adjacent year. CVX and XOM are the only two oil majors with 35+ year raise streaks in our records — the pair define the 'commodity aristocrat' category, and choosing between them usually comes down to the yield gap versus streak length.
CVX pays quarterly. Each point below is one dividend since February 1970 — the same half-century of oil cycles as XOM's chart, with a steeper recent slope.
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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: $7.05 per share across 4 payments — up 4% from $6.76 in the 12 months before (split-adjusted, in today's share terms). What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $6.84 — 3% below the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: up 32% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 198 payments over 57 years; the largest single payment was $1.78 (Feb 2026), split-adjusted.
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: none. Get one short email if that changes →
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"Next expected" is estimated from CVX'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.
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Chevron runs the same play as Exxon — protect the dividend through every crash, raise it every year, let the booms refill the treasury — and has done so for 38 consecutive rising years in our record. What differs is the price of admission: at roughly 3.5%, CVX yields meaningfully more than XOM's 2.6% today. The market charges less for this streak, partly on portfolio differences, partly on Exxon's four extra years of streak seniority.
For income buyers choosing between them, the compare tool draws both records on one chart; SCHD resolves the debate by owning both. The estimator below shows what 38 years of raises does to a position's yield-on-cost.
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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.
When Is CVX's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
CVX pays quarterly — usually going ex-dividend in February, May, August, and November. The exact date of each payout is announced by the fund only shortly beforehand, so no site can promise the next date — but the live schedule box above shows the most recent ex-dividend date and the expected window for the next one, computed from CVX's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
Fifty-Six Years of Checks From the Oil Patch
Our Chevron record opens in February 1970 at a split-adjusted four cents per quarter and runs 198 payments to today's $1.78. The trailing twelve months paid $7.05 per share — about 3.5% of the recent $199.89 price, the highest yield among the long-streak majors.
Thirty-Eight Years Without a Down Year
Every full year since the late 1980s paid more than the year before — 38 straight in our data. Like Exxon's, the streak's hard years were funded deliberately: Chevron borrowed through 2020's crash to keep the raises intact and let 2022's windfall repay the debt. The lesson the chart teaches is that an oil major's dividend policy is a choice about priorities, renewed annually for four decades.
Where CVX Fits an Income Portfolio
As the yield-forward half of the oil-aristocrat pair: nearly a full point more current income than XOM, with a streak four years shorter. Against the high-yield funds this site charts, the trade is the usual one — a third of the current rate, plus forty years of evidence the check grows. The compare tool makes either comparison, and the live calendar tracks the next ex-date.
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