Microsoft dividend yield MSFT

Dividends per share over the last twelve months divided by the share price, since 2003.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 0.69%
10-year median: 0.9%
Against its 10-year history: 11th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 0.6% to 2.5%
Peer median: 0.3%

Microsoft pays 0.69% of its share price in dividends over a year, as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 0.9%, lower than on 89% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 0.6% in Aug 2025 to 2.5% in Dec 2016.

The median for 8 technology stocks of a similar size is 0.3%.

Dividend yield over time

median 0.9%

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	0.7%	0.7%	1.0%
2025	0.7%	0.6%	0.9%
2024	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%
2023	0.7%	0.7%	1.1%
2022	1.1%	0.7%	1.1%
2021	0.7%	0.7%	1.0%
2020	0.9%	0.9%	1.4%
2019	1.2%	1.2%	1.7%
2018	1.7%	1.5%	1.9%
2017	1.9%	1.8%	2.3%
2016	2.4%	2.3%	2.8%
2015	2.3%	2.3%	2.9%
2014	2.4%	2.3%	2.7%
2013	2.6%	2.4%	3.1%
2012	3.1%	2.2%	3.1%
2011	2.6%	1.9%	2.8%
2010	2.0%	1.7%	2.2%
2009	1.7%	1.7%	3.1%
2008	2.4%	1.2%	2.4%
2007	1.1%	1.1%	1.4%

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