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Data last updated: Oct 19, 2026
Snapshot (as of Oct 19, 2026): iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF (ESGD) pays a $0.00 annual dividend, yielding 3.33% at $102.74/share. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 3.33%
Annual Dividend: $0.00 per share
Dividend Frequency: semi-annually
Years of Dividend History: 11
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF dividend comes from a fund holding large- and mid-cap equities across developed markets outside the U.S. and Canada, screened for positive environmental, social, and governance characteristics. The current yield is 3.33%. ESGD pays semi-annually, giving income investors two distributions per year rather than the quarterly cadence common among individual stocks. That yield level, backed by an 11-year dividend history, positions this fund for dividend investors who want international developed-market exposure with an ESG filter built in.
For iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF, payout ratio is not applicable (fund/ETF). What drives the dividend level is the aggregate distributions from the underlying large- and mid-cap developed market equities the fund holds. Assessing iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF dividend safety means looking at the history directly: the fund paid $1.5455 in 2018 versus $1.7961 in 2017, a year-over-year decline of roughly 14%, and a similar drop occurred in 2020. Those declines reflect how international equity distributions can swing with currency movements, corporate earnings cycles, and index composition changes.
iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF dividend history shows a CAGR of 8.4% per year from 2017 to 2025. Per-share payments grew from $1.7961 to $3.4258 over that window (2026 is a partial year and excluded from this calculation). The largest annual increase in the window was 39.2% in 2025, which is an outlier. The history also contains at least one year-over-year decline exceeding 5%, so the growth path has not been linear.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | +26.2% | $1.70 (2022) | $3.43 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +23.5% | $1.19 (2020) | $3.43 (2025) |
ESGD fits dividend investors who want international developed-market income with an ESG mandate baked into the index. The 3.33% yield falls in the moderate (2–4%) range, which is meaningful without being extreme. The 8.4% annualized growth rate from 2017 to 2025 is the real draw here, though that figure is lifted by a 39.2% spike in 2025 and the path included multi-year declines. What an investor gets is international equity income with ESG screening and a growth rate that has outpaced inflation over the window. The trade-off is semi-annual payments and a distribution level that can fall sharply in down years.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-15 | $1.6286 |
| 2025-12-16 | $1.7947 |
| 2025-06-16 | $1.6311 |
| 2024-12-17 | $1.0051 |
| 2024-06-11 | $1.4567 |
| 2023-12-20 | $0.9185 |
| 2023-06-07 | $1.3665 |
| 2022-12-13 | $0.3084 |
| 2022-06-09 | $1.3960 |
| 2021-12-30 | $0.1137 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $1.6286 |
| 2025 | $3.4258 |
| 2024 | $2.4618 |
| 2023 | $2.2850 |
| 2022 | $1.7044 |
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