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- Pays: monthly — 181 consecutive monthly dividends since July 1, 2011, one of the longest streaks on this site. The latest: $0.18 per share (August 2026), about $2.16 a year at that rate.
- What it is: an index fund holding 100 of the highest-dividend-yielding stocks in the world (Solactive Global SuperDividend Index) — wherever the yield screen leads: mortgage REITs, shipping, tobacco, emerging-market banks.
- Fee: 0.58% expense ratio (issuer fund page, verified August 2026).
- The uncomfortable trend: the per-share payment has declined substantially across the fund's life — the chart below shows the whole slope, restated through a share consolidation.
- The domestic sibling: DIV runs the same screen on U.S. stocks with a low-volatility filter.
SDIV never misses a month — and has paid less per share, per year, over time. Both facts are true at once, and together they are the most complete demonstration of the yield trap available anywhere: the screen always finds 100 high yielders, but yesterday's high yielders keep cutting.
SDIV pays monthly. Each point below is one dividend since July 2011 — read the slope, not just the streak.
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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: $2.05 per share across 11 payments — down 12% from $2.32 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 $2.16 — 6% above the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: down 1% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 182 payments over 15 years; the largest single payment was $0.909 (Dec 2012), split-adjusted.
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: none. Get one short email if that changes →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±3% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
Every figure above is computed from SDIV's actual payment record and share-price history as of the date shown — not copied from a fact sheet. Recomputed regularly; the chart above always shows the live data.
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"Next expected" is estimated from SDIV'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.
Buy the 100 highest-yielding stocks on earth, rebalance by rule, repeat for fifteen years — SDIV is the cleanest test of pure yield-chasing ever run at scale, and its chart is the result. The stocks a yield screen selects are disproportionately ones the market has marked down for a reason: over-levered landlords, cyclical shippers at the top of their cycle, banks in fragile economies. Diversification across 100 names softens each individual blow-up; it cannot fix the selection method.
This page pairs naturally with ORC — the single-stock version of the same lesson — and contrasts with SCHD, which screens for dividend quality and has raised its payout for over a decade. The compare tool will settle any argument between the two philosophies with live data.
| Year | Total Dividends / Share | Payments | Change vs Prior Year |
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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 SDIV's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
SDIV pays monthly. 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 SDIV's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
Fifteen Years, One Method, No Exceptions
Since July 1, 2011, SDIV has done exactly one thing: own the 100 highest-yielding stocks in the world, per the Solactive Global SuperDividend Index, and mail out what they pay — 181 monthly checks and counting, at a 0.58% fee. No judgment calls, no quality filter, no mercy rule. That purity is what makes the record valuable: every dividend investor argues about whether chasing yield works, and SDIV has run the controlled experiment for 15 years.
What the Experiment Found
The streak held; the amount didn't. Global crises kept arriving — the 2015-16 commodity collapse, the 2020 pandemic, the 2022 rate shock — and each culled the portfolio's payers, forcing the index to reload with new high yielders that often repeated the pattern. Today's $0.18 monthly rate sits far below what the early-2010s portfolio paid. A share consolidation along the way means our chart restates early payments in today's share terms, and even so the slope runs one direction. The monthly cadence never broke, which is precisely why the record is so instructive: reliability of schedule and reliability of amount are different promises, and only one was kept.
Who SDIV Is Actually For
Someone who wants maximum current cash from equities, understands the amount will track the world's riskiest dividend payers, and sizes the position accordingly — or someone who wants a single ticker that summarizes what pure yield-screening does across a full cycle. For monthly income with the opposite philosophy, the quality-screened funds and net-lease REITs on this site are the counterargument. The live statistics board shows where SDIV's current pace sits versus its trailing figure at any moment.
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