Fresenius Medical Care AG (FMS) dividend — yield, history and cover

The dividend

Fresenius Medical Care AG pays its shareholders once a year.

Yield

2.67%

Paid out each year as a share of the share price

Per share, per year

$0.61

The last full year of payments at the current rate

Years of increases

Consecutive years the total rose

Share of profits

16%

Of earnings, paid out rather than kept

Recent payments

May 22, 2026$0.61
May 23, 2025$0.57
May 17, 2024$0.44
May 17, 2023$0.42
May 13, 2022$0.49
May 24, 2021$0.57
Aug 28, 2020$0.50
May 17, 2019$0.45
May 21, 2018$0.44
May 11, 2017$0.36
May 10, 2016$0.30

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 1 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.