Payment date
The date a declared dividend is actually paid to qualifying holders.
Updated 2026-07-26
The payment date is the last of the sequence and usually the least ambiguous: it is when the money moves. It can be weeks after the record date.
A declared dividend is a company decision, not a certainty. Declarations are revised and cancelled, and a future date is a plan until the payment happens.
Where a date on this site is derived from a schedule rather than read from a document, it is marked as unconfirmed, and future dates that are not confirmed are not published.
Related terms
2 entries- Ex-dividend date
- The first day on which buying the shares no longer carries the right to the declared dividend.
- Record date
- The date on which a shareholder must be on the register to receive a declared dividend or to vote.
Where this appears in the data
Written for reading the records published here. This is not a legal, tax or accounting definition, and where a jurisdiction defines the term precisely, that definition governs.