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Smithfield Foods Inc.
SFD · Nasdaq · ·
Next earnings: October 27, 2026
$19.01-0.8%Sep 29 close
- 1M
- -13.4%
- 6M
- -27.2%
- 1Y
- -15.0%
The dividend
Smithfield Foods Inc. pays its shareholders every quarter.
Paid out each year as a share of the share price
$0.30 every quarter
Consecutive years the total rose
Of earnings, paid out rather than kept
Recent payments
- Aug 13, 2026$0.31
- May 14, 2026$0.31
- Apr 7, 2026$0.31
- Nov 13, 2025$0.25
- Aug 14, 2025$0.25
- May 15, 2025$0.25
- Apr 10, 2025$0.25
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.