- Pays: quarterly — 185 dividends in our record since 1972, with two long gaps (2006-2012 and 2020-2021) where it paid nothing at all.
- Current rate: $0.15 per quarter — $0.60 over the trailing twelve months, roughly 4.3% of the recent ~$13.95 price.
- The suspension: Ford paid $0.15 in January 2020, then nothing until November 2021 — the pandemic stop — restarting at $0.10 and returning to $0.15 by August 2022.
- The specials: supplemental dividends arrived with fourth-quarter earnings three years running — an extra $0.65 in February 2023, $0.18 in 2024, $0.15 in 2025. February 2026 brought no supplemental — the first skip in that pattern.
- The honest frame: Ford's yield is high because the market prices auto profits as cyclical and fragile — this is a payout with a documented habit of pausing in hard times.
Ford's record is the counterexample to every raise-streak story on this site: the base dividend hasn't grown since 2015-era levels, and the payout has been suspended twice in twenty years. What Ford offers instead is a high base yield plus, in good years, a supplemental kicker — and the record now shows what a skipped kicker looks like, too.
Each point is one Ford dividend since 1972. The blank stretches are real — 2006-2012 and 2020-2021 paid nothing — and the tall February points of 2023-2025 are the supplemental specials.
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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: $0.6 per share across 4 payments — down 20% from $0.75 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 $0.6 — 0% above the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: up 25% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 185 payments over 54 years; the largest single payment was $0.8 (Feb 2023), 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 F'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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Ford's chart teaches with its empty spaces. The dividend vanished entirely from 2006 to 2012 (the financial crisis and Ford's near-death restructuring) and again from April 2020 to November 2021. Between gaps it pays generously — a $0.15 base plus fourth-quarter supplementals that added as much as $0.65 in February 2023. The February 2026 report brought no supplemental, making the trailing year a base-only $0.60.
Contrast it with XOM, which held its streak through the same 2020 that stopped Ford's checks — that's the difference balance-sheet priorities make. On today's price Ford still out-yields most blue chips at ~4.3%; the compare tool shows what the stop-start history has cost against steadier payers.
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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 F's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
F 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 F's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
Fifty Years, Two Silences
Our Ford record starts in 1972 and holds 185 payments — but its most instructive feature is what's missing. No dividends at all from 2006 through early 2012, as Ford mortgaged everything including the blue oval to survive; nothing again from April 2020 to November 2021. Each time the payout returned: at $0.10 in late 2021, back to the familiar $0.15 by August 2022, where it has sat since.
The Supplemental Era — and Its First Skip
Starting in 2023, Ford adopted a pattern income investors learned to anticipate: a supplemental dividend declared with fourth-quarter earnings. February 2023 brought an extra $0.65 (a $0.80 total payment), February 2024 an extra $0.18, February 2025 an extra $0.15. February 2026 brought only the $0.15 base — the first skipped supplemental of the era, leaving the trailing year at $0.60 per share, about 4.3% of the recent $13.95 price. A base-plus-kicker policy means the kicker is the first thing to go; the record now shows one going.
What Ford Is, Honestly
Not a raise-streak stock and not pretending to be. Ford pays a high base yield from a cyclical business, adds extras when years are fat, and has a documented willingness to stop entirely when they aren't. Some income investors find that trade fair at 4.3%; others pay up for streaks or diversify it away via VYM, which holds Ford among 500 yielders. The compare tool and the estimator below price the difference.
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