EPD Dividend History

• Pays: quarterly — usually going ex-dividend in late January, April, July, and October.
• Paying since: its 1998 IPO — with the distribution raised for 26+ consecutive years, through two oil crashes and a pandemic. The MLP world's aristocrat.
• What it is: one of America's largest energy midstream networks — pipelines, storage, processing — earning fees on volumes moved.
• Today's yield: around 7%, covered roughly 1.7x by distributable cash flow — among the best-covered high yields anywhere.
• The tax wrinkle: it's an MLP — expect a Schedule K-1 at tax time, largely tax-deferred distributions, and IRA complications (UBTI).

EPD is a master limited partnership: distributions come with a K-1 (not a 1099), are largely tax-deferred return of capital, and the raise streak is the longest in the pipeline industry.

EPD pays quarterly. Each point below is one distribution since 1998 — a staircase that has never taken a step down.

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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: $2.21 per share across 4 payments — up 3% from $2.14 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 $2.18 — 1% 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 14% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
• Record: 112 payments over 28 years; the largest single payment was $0.56 (Jul 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 EPD'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.

Enterprise is the pipeline company that never cut. Where Energy Transfer halved its payout in 2020, EPD raised through that year — and the 26-year streak reflects a deliberately conservative machine: lower debt than peers, distribution covered ~1.7 times, growth funded from retained cash instead of borrowing. Boring choices, compounding results.

The costs of admission are the MLP's usual paperwork — a K-1 form, deferred-tax bookkeeping, and real awkwardness inside IRAs — plus the sector's long-term question about hydrocarbon volumes. Our tax guide covers the basics before you buy.

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.