Factset Research Systems Inc. (FDS) dividend — yield, history and cover

The dividend

Factset Research Systems Inc. pays its shareholders every quarter.

Yield

1.66%

Paid out each year as a share of the share price

Per share, per year

$4.52

$1.13 every quarter

Years of increases

At least 9

Every year we hold — the real record may be far longer

Share of profits

30%

Of earnings, paid out rather than kept

Recent payments

Aug 31, 2026$1.16
May 29, 2026$1.16
Feb 27, 2026$1.10
Nov 28, 2025$1.10
Aug 29, 2025$1.10
May 30, 2025$1.10
Feb 28, 2025$1.04
Nov 29, 2024$1.04
Aug 30, 2024$1.04
May 31, 2024$1.04
Feb 28, 2024$0.98
Nov 29, 2023$0.98
Aug 30, 2023$0.98
May 30, 2023$0.98
Feb 27, 2023$0.89
Nov 29, 2022$0.89
Aug 30, 2022$0.89
May 27, 2022$0.89
Feb 25, 2022$0.82
Nov 29, 2021$0.82
Aug 30, 2021$0.82
May 27, 2021$0.82
Feb 25, 2021$0.77
Nov 27, 2020$0.77

Dated by ex-dividend day — the day you must already own the shares to be paid.

A dividend is not a promise. Companies cut them, and a high yield is often a share price that has fallen rather than a payment that has risen. This describes what has been paid, not what will be.

Payments come from the corporate-actions record rather than from the filings. The XBRL tag for dividends covers only about a fifth of filers and arrives in a zoo of units, so the actual per-share cash — dated, with one-off specials flagged — is the more reliable source. The filings still answer whether earnings cover the payment.

The annual figure is the last 4 regular payments, not a rolling 365 days. A year-long window catches three payments or five depending on where its boundary lands — Exxon’s misses an August ex-date by two days and understates the yield by a quarter — so the count is what is summed, and a partial set publishes nothing rather than a low number.