United Parcel Service, Inc. pays its shareholders every quarter.
Yield
5.94%
Paid out each year as a share of the share price
Per share, per year
$6.56
$1.64 every quarter
Years of increases
At least 9
Every year we hold — the real record may be far longer
Share of profits
126%
More than it earned — funded from elsewhere
Recent payments
Aug 17, 2026$1.64
May 18, 2026$1.64
Feb 17, 2026$1.64
Nov 17, 2025$1.64
Aug 18, 2025$1.64
May 19, 2025$1.64
Feb 18, 2025$1.64
Nov 18, 2024$1.63
Aug 19, 2024$1.63
May 10, 2024$1.63
Feb 16, 2024$1.63
Nov 10, 2023$1.62
Aug 11, 2023$1.62
May 12, 2023$1.62
Feb 17, 2023$1.62
Nov 10, 2022$1.52
Aug 12, 2022$1.52
May 13, 2022$1.52
Feb 18, 2022$1.52
Nov 19, 2021$1.02
Aug 20, 2021$1.02
May 21, 2021$1.02
Feb 19, 2021$1.02
Nov 12, 2020$1.01
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.
