S&P 500 Dividend Yield Monthly Trends: S&P 500 Earnings (2024)

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S&P 500 Dividend Yield (I:SP500DYT)

S&P 500 Dividend Yield is at 1.35%, compared to 1.47% last month and 1.66% last year. This is lower than the long term average of 1.84%.

S&P 500 Monthly Total Return is at -4.08%, compared to 3.22% last month and 1.56% last year. This is lower than the long term average of 0.70%. The S&P 500 Monthly Total Return is the investment return received each month, including dividends, when holding the S&P 500 index.

More than 75% of the stocks in the S&P 500 pay a dividend, and the dividend for many of them exceeds the yield on U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds (currently around 4.6%).

The highest yielding S&P 500 stock is Altria (MO), which makes the iconic Marlboro cigarettes. The company has increased its dividends annually for over half a decade, and its current dividend yield is 8.4%.

An S&P “Earnings and Dividend Quality Rank” is a letter grade assigned to a company based on a variety of factors, chief among them is the consistency of earnings and dividend growth over the prior 10 years.

The S&P 500 Earnings Yield, reflects the sum of the underlying S&P 500 companies' earnings for the previous year, divided by the S&P 500 index level at the end of the year.

The dividend yield for the S&P 500 is calculated by finding the weighted average of each listed company's most recently reported full-year dividend and dividing it by the current share price. Yields are published and calculated daily by Standard & Poor's and other analysts.

As we know that earnings yield provides the percentage of returns for each dollar invested in the company, dividend yield, in the same way, provide the amount of dividend that a company pays for every invested. The dividend yield is used to make investment decisions for companies paying dividends.

S&P 500 Earnings Per Share is at a current level of 47.79, up from 47.65 last quarter and up from 39.61 one year ago. This is a change of 0.29% from last quarter and 20.65% from one year ago.

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S&P 500 P/E Ratio is at a current level of 24.79, up from 23.27 last quarter and up from 22.23 one year ago. This is a change of 6.51% from last quarter and 11.53% from one year ago.

Some of the best dividend stocks include Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), and AbbVie Inc (NYSE:ABBV) with impressive track records of dividend growth and strong balance sheets.

The average yearly return of the S&P 500 is 10.47% over the last 30 years, as of the end of April 2024. This assumes dividends are reinvested. Adjusted for inflation, the 30-year average stock market return (including dividends) is 7.74%.

Does the S&P 500 Pay Dividends? The S&P 500 is an index, so it does not pay dividends; however, there are mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the index, which you can invest in. If the companies in these funds pay dividends, you'll receive yours based on how many shares of the funds you hold.

S&P 500 Monthly Return is at -4.16%, compared to 3.10% last month and 1.46% last year.

Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF pays quarterly dividends. This is paid in the months of June, September, December, March. When is the next dividend from Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF? The next dividend for Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF is expected in June.

The dividend yield—displayed as a percentage—is the amount of money a company pays shareholders for owning a share of its stock divided by its current stock price. Mature companies are the most likely to pay dividends. Companies in the utility and consumer staple industries often have relatively higher dividend yields.