- Pays: quarterly — 228 dividends in our record since May 1970.
- The streak: annual payouts have risen for 42 consecutive full years in our data — through oil at $10 a barrel and oil at $140, through 2020's negative futures prints.
- Current rate: $1.03 per quarter — $4.12 over the trailing twelve months.
- Today's yield: about 2.6% on the recent ~$160.64 share price.
- The compounding exhibit: a split-adjusted share paid about $0.03 per quarter in 1970 and pays $1.03 now — the same share's check grew roughly 37-fold.
Figures are split-adjusted from our data feed and may book an occasional payment into an adjacent year. What makes XOM's streak remarkable isn't its length alone — it's that it survived an industry where the underlying commodity routinely halves. The 2020 oil crash, which forced cuts across the sector, left this line unbroken.
XOM pays quarterly. Each point below is one dividend since May 1970 — a staircase built through every oil cycle since the OPEC embargo.
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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: $4.12 per share across 4 payments — up 4% from $3.96 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 $4.04 — 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 42% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 228 payments over 56 years; the largest single payment was $1.03 (Nov 2025), 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 XOM'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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Most long raise streaks belong to companies selling soda or soap — products with stable prices. Exxon built its 42-year run selling the most cyclical commodity on earth, which means the streak is really a story about balance-sheet discipline: borrowing through the busts (2020 included) to keep the raises coming, and letting the booms repair the damage. Shareholders got paid every quarter either way — $4.12 per share over the trailing year.
The natural side-by-side is Chevron — same industry, nearly the same streak, a higher current yield. For the rent-the-yield alternative, an option-income fund like XYLD pays four times XOM's rate today and grows nothing; the compare tool shows both philosophies on one chart.
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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 XOM's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
XOM 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 XOM's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
Fifty-Six Years Through Every Oil Cycle
Our record opens in May 1970 with a split-adjusted quarterly payment of about three cents. It runs 228 payments to today's $1.03 — through the OPEC embargo, the 1986 glut, two Gulf wars, $140 oil, and the 2020 crash that briefly priced crude below zero. The trailing twelve months paid $4.12 per share, about 2.6% of the recent $160.64 price.
The 42-Year Staircase
Count backward from 2025 and every full year in our data paid more than the one before — 42 in a row. That consistency from a commodity company is the entire investment case in one line: management treats the dividend as untouchable and sizes everything else — capital spending, buybacks, borrowing — around it. In 2020 that meant adding debt while competitors cut; by 2022 the boom had paid it back. Holders who simply cashed the checks never noticed the difference, which was the point.
Own the Stock or Rent the Yield
XOM anchors one end of the income spectrum this site charts: modest current yield, four-decade growth. The other end — the option funds paying 10% and up — trades all future growth for today's rate. The compare tool puts XOM beside CVX, SCHD (which holds it), or any high yielder, and the estimator below models what the raise streak does to a position over decades. Next expected date, as always, on the live calendar.
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