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Data last updated: Sep 01, 2026
Snapshot (as of Sep 01, 2026): Ford Motor Company (F) pays a $0.60 annual dividend ($0.15 quarterly), yielding 4.35% at $13.78/share. Next ex-dividend date 2026-08-11. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 4.35%
Annual Dividend: $0.60 per share
Payout Ratio: -32.5%
Ex-Dividend Date: 2026-08-11
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Sector: Consumer Cyclical
Years of Dividend History: 49
Ford Motor Company dividend income comes from one of the oldest names in global automotive manufacturing, founded in 1903 and still selling trucks, SUVs, and Lincoln luxury vehicles across a worldwide dealer network. F currently yields 4.33%, placing it firmly in high-yield territory for a consumer cyclical stock. The trailing annual dividend rate is $0.60 per share, paid quarterly, with the next ex-dividend date on August 11, 2026. With a beta of 1.848, this is a volatile stock, which means the yield comes with meaningful price swings that income investors need to weigh.
Ford Motor Company pays out -32.5% of earnings as dividends, a payout ratio classified as conservative (below 40%). A negative payout ratio reflects a period of reported losses rather than a sign the dividend is unfunded, and the $0.60 annual rate has held flat through 2025. Ford Motor Company dividend safety faces its clearest pressure from the cyclical nature of auto manufacturing: demand for trucks, SUVs, and fleet vehicles can drop sharply in economic downturns, and F's history shows the dividend has been cut before when conditions deteriorated.
Ford Motor Company dividend history shows a CAGR of -0.5% per year from 1998 to 2025. Per-share payments started at $0.8677 in 1998 and ended at $0.7500 in 2025 (with 2026 a partial year and not included in the CAGR). The largest annual increase in the window was 150.0% in 2023, but the history also contains multiple year-over-year declines exceeding 5%, which explains why the long-run growth rate is effectively flat. Growth is slow, and that limits upside for investors counting on rising income over time.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | +14.5% | $0.50 (2022) | $0.75 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +38.0% | $0.15 (2020) | $0.75 (2025) |
| 10-Year | +2.3% | $0.60 (2015) | $0.75 (2025) |
F stock fits income-focused investors who want a high (above 4%) yield from a globally recognized automaker and can tolerate significant price volatility. At 4.33%, the current yield sits below the 5-year average of 4.87%, which means buyers today are getting slightly less income than the historical norm. The payout ratio is conservative at -32.5%, but the dividend has been cut and reinstated multiple times across the available history, so the yield is not unconditional. What an investor gets here is a meaningful income rate from a company with deep commercial and fleet operations; what they accept is a dividend that has proven sensitive to the auto cycle and has delivered no net growth over nearly three decades.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | $0.1500 |
| 2026-05-12 | $0.1500 |
| 2026-02-13 | $0.1500 |
| 2025-11-07 | $0.1500 |
| 2025-08-11 | $0.1500 |
| 2025-05-12 | $0.1500 |
| 2025-02-18 | $0.3000 |
| 2024-11-07 | $0.1500 |
| 2024-08-07 | $0.1500 |
| 2024-05-07 | $0.1500 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $0.4500 |
| 2025 | $0.7500 |
| 2024 | $0.7800 |
| 2023 | $1.2500 |
| 2022 | $0.5000 |
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