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Data last updated: Oct 19, 2026
Snapshot (as of Oct 19, 2026): T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500 (PREIX) pays a $0.00 annual dividend, yielding 2.10% at $198.81/share. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 2.10%
Annual Dividend: $0.00 per share
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Years of Dividend History: 37
T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500 dividend comes from a fund that puts at least 80% of its net assets into stocks included in its benchmark index. The current yield is 0.89%, with a forward annual rate of $1.3270 per share paid quarterly. PREIX has 37 years of dividend history, a span that covers multiple market cycles. Growth-focused income investors are the natural fit here, given the fund's 14.5% dividend CAGR since 2010.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500 dividend safety is tied directly to the aggregate distributions generated by the underlying index holdings, not to a single company's earnings or cash flow. Payout ratio is not applicable (fund/ETF). The most concrete data-supported risk is that the fund's annual dividend has declined in at least one year within the available history window, with 2019 showing a drop from $1.74 to $1.68 per share, a reminder that distributions can move with market conditions.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500 dividend history shows a CAGR of 14.5% per year from 2010 to 2025. Per-share payments grew from $0.54 to $4.1263 over that span (2026 is a partial year and excluded from the CAGR calculation). The largest single-year jump in the window was 129.0% in 2025, which is an outlier that skews the long-run average upward.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | +39.7% | $1.51 (2022) | $4.13 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +16.2% | $1.95 (2020) | $4.13 (2025) |
| 10-Year | +14.0% | $1.11 (2015) | $4.13 (2025) |
PREIX fits growth-and-income investors who prioritize dividend growth over current yield. The yield is low (below 2%) at 0.89%, and no 5-year average is available for direct comparison. What the fund delivers instead is a 14.5% annualized dividend growth rate over 15 years, with per-share payments rising from $0.54 to $4.1263. The trade-off is straightforward: an investor accepts a sub-1% starting yield in exchange for a fund structure that has historically compounded distributions at a fast pace, with the caveat that annual payments have dipped in at least one year within the available data.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-28 | $0.4560 |
| 2026-06-26 | $0.4495 |
| 2026-03-27 | $0.4218 |
| 2025-12-11 | $2.8415 |
| 2025-09-26 | $0.4537 |
| 2025-06-26 | $0.4356 |
| 2025-03-27 | $0.3955 |
| 2024-12-12 | $0.5538 |
| 2024-09-26 | $0.4197 |
| 2024-06-26 | $0.4215 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $1.3273 |
| 2025 | $4.1263 |
| 2024 | $1.8019 |
| 2023 | $1.6603 |
| 2022 | $1.5150 |
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