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National Grid plc
NGG · NYSE · ·
$74.92-0.4%Sep 29 close
- 1M
- -5.6%
- 6M
- -8.2%
- 1Y
- +7.3%
- 5Y
- +64.2%
The dividend
National Grid plc pays its shareholders twice a year.
Paid out each year as a share of the share price
$1.60 twice a year
Consecutive years the total rose
More than it earned — funded from elsewhere
Recent payments
- May 29, 2026$2.15
- Nov 21, 2025$1.06
- May 30, 2025$2.03
- Nov 22, 2024$1.01
- Jun 7, 2024$2.47
- May 31, 2024$3.51
- Nov 22, 2023$1.18
- Jun 1, 2023$2.33
- Nov 23, 2022$1.02
- Jun 3, 2022$2.07
- Dec 2, 2021$1.15
- Jun 3, 2021$2.26
- Nov 25, 2020$1.12
- Jul 1, 2020$1.99
- Nov 27, 2019$1.07
- May 30, 2019$2.01
- Nov 21, 2018$1.06
- May 31, 2018$2.06
- Nov 22, 2017$1.02
- May 31, 2017$1.89
- May 17, 2017$5.41
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 2 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.