- Pays: quarterly — currently $0.75 per share.
- Paying since: 1997 — the longest-running large mortgage REIT record.
- Two raises: $0.65 → $0.70 (Q1 2025) and $0.70 → $0.75 (Q2 2026, declared June 10, 2026). The $0.65 had held through all of 2024.
- What it is: a diversified housing-finance REIT — about $95B of a $109B portfolio in agency MBS, plus residential credit and mortgage servicing rights.
- The machinery: economic leverage 5.6x (GAAP 7.4x) at mid-2026; book value $20.15 per share; active share issuance (~$447M in Q2 2026 alone).
A 1-for-4 reverse split took effect September 23, 2022 — this data source restates earlier per-share dividends in today's share terms, so pre-2022 payments on the chart read about four times their nominal amounts. The chart's split disclosure applies. Annaly's prior cuts all predate the split.
NLY pays quarterly. Each point below is one dividend since 1997, split-adjusted — three decades of rate cycles, and two recent raises at the right edge.
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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: $2.85 per share across 4 payments — up 6% from $2.70 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 $2.80 — 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 3% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 117 payments over 29 years; the largest single payment was $3.00 (Dec 2009), 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 NLY'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.
Annaly is the mortgage-REIT sector's reference point: the largest balance sheet, the longest record, and — unlike pure agency players — three engines (agency MBS, residential credit, servicing rights) that don't all suffer in the same rate weather. Its dividend history includes real cuts in past cycles and a 2022 reverse split, but the post-split record is two raises and a book value that held.
Read it beside AGNC (pure agency, flat $0.12 monthly), DX (smaller, also raising) and ARR (cut) — the sector's full spectrum is on the compare tool.
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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. Note: after a share split, this data source restates all historical per-share payouts in today's share terms — the split disclosure above the chart applies.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
When Is NLY's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
NLY pays quarterly. 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 NLY's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
Twenty-Nine Years, Split-Adjusted
Annaly has paid quarterly since 1997, and its chart is the sector's longest memory: the early-2000s boom, the 2008 crisis (when agency paper was the safe haven), the long zero-rate grind, and 2022's shock that forced a reverse split. Split-adjusted, the recent record is the clean part — $0.65 held through 2024, then two raises to $0.75.
Three Engines, One Dividend
What separates Annaly from a pure agency REIT is diversification by design: agency MBS for liquidity and scale, residential credit for spread, and mortgage servicing rights that gain value when rates rise and prepayments slow — a natural hedge for the bond book. That mix is why NLY could raise while some peers cut, though leverage still makes every quarter's book value the real scoreboard.
Where NLY Fits
As the benchmark for the whole mortgage-REIT category — if you own any of them, NLY's book value and dividend direction are the sector's weather report. Next expected date on the live calendar.
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