How a two-decade streak compounds: Microsoft's annual dividend, year by year

Name: How a two-decade streak compounds: Microsoft's annual dividend, year by year
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-08-22
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Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Two Decades of Rising Dividends.

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How a two-decade streak compounds: Microsoft's annual dividend, year by year — 22 rows by 2 columns, computed 2026-08-22 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
year	annual_dividend
2004	0.08
2005	0.32
2006	0.37
2007	0.41
2008	0.46
2009	0.52
2010	0.55
2011	0.68
2012	0.83
2013	0.97
2014	1.15
2015	1.29
2016	1.47
2017	1.59
2018	1.72
2019	1.89
2020	2.09
2021	2.3
2022	2.54
2023	2.79
2024	3.08
2025	3.4

Rows × columns: 22 × 2
Computed: 2026-08-22
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for How a two-decade streak compounds: Microsoft's annual dividend, year by year, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`year`	number	2,004 to 2,025
`annual_dividend`	number	0.08 to 3.4

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS year,
       round(sum(cash_amount), 4) AS annual_dividend
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE ticker = 'MSFT'
  AND frequency IN (1, 2, 4, 12)
  AND ex_dividend_date >= '2004-01-01'
  AND ex_dividend_date < toStartOfYear(today())
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year

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