“Exxon Mobil’s Dividend Yield Hits 10%: What Investors Need To Know”
September 25, 2020
“What Happened: Exxon Mobil Corporation’s (NYSE: XOM) dividend yield is sitting above 10% as of Thursday. The company paid out a dividend of 87 cents in September. Based on the ex-dividend date of Aug. 12, the annual dividend rate was 7.9%.
The dividend yield was 7.9% and 5.8% at the ex-dividend dates of the other dividends paid in 2020. In 2019, all four ex-dividend dates were at yields of 5% or less. In 2018, all four dates were 4.1% or less.
Charts dating back to 1989 show that Exxon Mobil’s dividend yield is at its highest-ever level...”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exxon-mobils-dividend-yield-hits-201834440.html
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