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Data last updated: Jul 19, 2026
Snapshot (as of Jul 19, 2026): Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF (SCHA) pays a $0.36 annual dividend ($0.10 quarterly), yielding 1.05% at $34.05/share. Next ex-dividend date 2026-06-24. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 1.05%
Annual Dividend: $0.36 per share
Ex-Dividend Date: 2026-06-24
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Sector: Financial Services
Years of Dividend History: 18
The Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF dividend comes from a fund designed to track the Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index as closely as possible, giving investors broad exposure to smaller U.S. companies. SCHA currently yields 1.01%, with a trailing annual dividend rate of $0.3577 per share paid quarterly. The next ex-dividend date is June 24, 2026. At a beta of 1.26, this fund carries above-average price volatility, which makes it a secondary fit for income-focused investors rather than a core dividend holding.
Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF pays out dividends as a pass-through of income generated by its underlying holdings, making a traditional payout ratio not applicable (fund/ETF). Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF dividend safety is therefore tied to the income produced by the hundreds of small-cap stocks the fund holds, not to a single company's earnings. The most significant pressure point is the fund's beta of 1.26: when small-cap earnings contract broadly, the income passed through to SCHA shareholders contracts with them, as the dividend history shows with year-over-year declines in multiple periods.
Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF dividend history shows a CAGR of 4.4% per year from 2010 to 2024. Per-share payments grew from $0.3360 to $0.6119 over that window (2025 and 2026 figures are partial years and excluded from the rate calculation). The largest annual increase in the window was 76.7% in 2012, but the history also contains at least one year-over-year decline exceeding 5%, which reflects how directly SCHA's distributions track the earnings volatility of its small-cap holdings.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | -13.7% | $0.56 (2022) | $0.36 (2025) |
| 5-Year | -17.5% | $0.93 (2020) | $0.36 (2025) |
| 10-Year | -7.4% | $0.77 (2015) | $0.36 (2025) |
SCHA fits dividend investors who want small-cap equity exposure and are willing to accept an income stream that moves with the underlying market. The current yield of 1.01% is classified as low (below 2%), and it sits well beneath the fund's own 5-year average yield of 1.93%, meaning today's buyers are getting less income per dollar invested than the historical norm. The 4.4% CAGR over 14 years shows the dividend has grown in aggregate, but the path has not been smooth. What an investor gains is diversified small-cap exposure with a modest income component. The trade-off is a yield that is low today and a distribution that has historically declined in weaker earnings environments.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | $0.1004 |
| 2026-03-25 | $0.0384 |
| 2025-12-10 | $0.1301 |
| 2025-09-24 | $0.0888 |
| 2025-06-25 | $0.0833 |
| 2025-03-26 | $0.0553 |
| 2024-12-11 | $0.1690 |
| 2024-09-25 | $0.1751 |
| 2024-06-26 | $0.1600 |
| 2024-03-20 | $0.1078 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $0.1388 |
| 2025 | $0.3575 |
| 2024 | $0.6119 |
| 2023 | $0.6729 |
| 2022 | $0.5554 |
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