- Pays: quarterly — 238 dividends in our record since February 1967.
- The streak: annual payouts have risen for 58 consecutive full years in our data — the longest unbroken climb on this site. The company's own declared-raise count runs past six decades.
- Current rate: $1.34 per quarter after the May 2026 raise (from $1.30) — $3.94 over the trailing twelve months.
- Today's yield: about 1.4% on the recent ~$273.14 share price.
- The compounding exhibit: a split-adjusted share paid pennies per year in 1967 and $3.94 in the trailing year — six decades of raises did that, not the starting yield.
Figures are split-adjusted and occasionally book a payment into an adjacent year. JNJ's streak survived the 1970s inflation, the Tylenol crisis, patent cliffs, the pandemic, and the 2023 Kenvue consumer-products spin-off — the payout kept rising straight through the company's own restructuring.
Each point is one JNJ dividend since February 1967 — 238 of them, forming the longest staircase in our data.
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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: $5.28 per share across 4 payments — up 4% from $5.08 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 $5.20 — 2% 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 57% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 227 payments over 57 years; the largest single payment was $1.34 (May 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 JNJ'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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Every full calendar year in our record since the late 1960s paid more than the year before — 58 straight, extended again with May 2026's raise to $1.34. Healthcare demand doesn't care about recessions, and JNJ's board treats the annual raise as a covenant. The price of that reliability is the same as ever: a current yield near 1.4% that always looks too small — exactly as it looked to buyers decades ago whose yield-on-cost is now a multiple of it.
The peer comparison is Procter & Gamble — the other six-decade compounder — and the contrast piece is 3M, the King whose streak ended in 2024. The compare tool overlays any of them.
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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 JNJ's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
JNJ 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 JNJ's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
The Longest Staircase We Chart
Our Johnson & Johnson record begins in February 1967 and holds 238 quarterly payments. Summed by calendar year, the total has risen 58 consecutive times — through the 1970s inflation, the 1982 Tylenol crisis, a dozen patent cliffs, 2008, the pandemic, and the 2023 spin-off of its consumer arm as Kenvue. The trailing year paid $3.94 per share; May 2026's raise to $1.34 per quarter keeps the arc intact.
What Six Decades of Raises Buys
At the recent $273.14 price, JNJ yields about 1.4% — the number that makes income screeners scroll past. The record argues for patience instead: every buyer in this chart's history faced the same modest starting yield, and every long holder watched raises do the work. A streak this old also carries information about management: 58 years of boards have chosen the raise over every competing use of cash, in every kind of year. That institutional habit is the asset.
JNJ on the Income Spectrum
Against this site's high-yield funds, JNJ is the opposite pole: minimal current income, maximal growth pedigree, zero exotic machinery. Pair it with PG for the classic King duo, against ABBV for pharma with triple the yield, or against any option fund on the compare tool to see what each end of the spectrum pays for. Next expected date on the live calendar.
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