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Data last updated: Oct 21, 2026
Snapshot (as of Oct 21, 2026): Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF (SCHX) pays a $0.00 annual dividend, yielding 1.03% at $30.23/share. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 1.03%
Annual Dividend: $0.00 per share
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Years of Dividend History: 18
The Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF dividend comes from a fund designed to track the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index as closely as possible, before fees and expenses. SCHX currently yields 1.01%, with a trailing annual dividend rate of $0.3033 per share paid quarterly. The next ex-dividend date is June 24, 2026. At a beta of 1.014, SCHX moves nearly in lockstep with the broad market, making it a fit for growth-and-income investors comfortable with market-level volatility in exchange for dividend growth.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF pays out dividends as a pass-through of underlying holdings, making a traditional payout ratio not applicable (fund/ETF). Because SCHX distributes income generated by its large-cap index holdings rather than retaining earnings, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF dividend safety is tied directly to the aggregate dividend output of those underlying companies, not to a single firm's cash flow. The primary pressure on the payout is any broad decline in dividends across large-cap U.S. equities, which the 2021 dip from $0.2485 to $0.2303 per share demonstrates is a real historical occurrence.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF dividend history shows a CAGR of 8.5% per year from 2011 to 2025. Per-share payments grew from $0.0938 to $0.2927 over that window (2026 data is a partial year and excluded from the growth calculation). The largest annual increase in the window was 30.9% in 2012, while the history also contains at least one year-over-year decline exceeding 5%, most visibly in 2021 when the annual payout fell from $0.2485 to $0.2303.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | +6.0% | $0.25 (2022) | $0.29 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +3.3% | $0.25 (2020) | $0.29 (2025) |
| 10-Year | +5.9% | $0.16 (2015) | $0.29 (2025) |
SCHX fits growth-and-income investors who want broad large-cap U.S. equity exposure with a dividend that has compounded at 8.5% annually, and who are not relying on current income as a primary goal. The yield is low (below 2%), currently at 1.01%, though that sits above the fund's own 5-year average of 0.87%. What an investor gets is a dividend that has grown meaningfully over time. The trade-off is a current yield that delivers little immediate income, and a payout that has shown it can dip in years when large-cap dividends broadly contract.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | $0.0822 |
| 2026-06-24 | $0.0763 |
| 2026-03-25 | $0.0732 |
| 2025-12-10 | $0.0806 |
| 2025-09-24 | $0.0732 |
| 2025-06-25 | $0.0721 |
| 2025-03-26 | $0.0668 |
| 2024-12-11 | $0.0792 |
| 2024-09-25 | $0.0689 |
| 2024-06-26 | $0.0687 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $0.2317 |
| 2025 | $0.2927 |
| 2024 | $0.2820 |
| 2023 | $0.2615 |
| 2022 | $0.2461 |
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