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Delta Air Lines, Inc. yields 0.89%, below the 2.88% median across US dividend payers. The income from DAL is a smaller part of the story than it would be on a high-yield holding, and the figures below deliberately capture only that part.

DAL paid $0.75 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.

Your investment

DAL

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

0.89%

yield

$84.13 per shareQuarterlyStock
$
10 years
11530

Dividend income

$10,000 in DAL pays you

$89.15

per year

Paid each quarter
$22.29
Monthly average
$7.43
Shares bought
118.86
Payments a year
4

Total over 10 years, taken as cash

$891.48

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Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.

DAL dividend income by investment amount

Based on the current yield of 0.89%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.

Dividend income from DAL at a range of investment amounts.
InvestedPer yearPer paymentMonthly average
$1,000$8.91$2.23$0.74
$5,000$44.57$11.14$3.71
$10,000$89.15$22.29$7.43
$25,000$222.87$55.72$18.57
$50,000$445.74$111.43$37.14
$100,000$891.48$222.87$74.29

DAL with dividends reinvested

$10,000 in DAL, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.

After 10 years
$10,931

$10,891 taking the income as cash

After 20 years
$11,949

$11,783 taking the income as cash

After 30 years
$13,062

$12,674 taking the income as cash

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What makes up DAL's 0.89% yield

DAL paid $0.75 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $84.13, which is where the 0.89% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.

A below-median yield is not the same as a weak dividend. It commonly means earnings are being retained and reinvested, or that the share price has risen faster than the payment — in the second case the holder's income did not fall, the yield did. Income is one component of the return on DAL and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.

Industrial earnings track capital spending cycles, so payout ratios here tend to look comfortable at a peak and stretched at a trough while the dividend itself is held flat.

When DAL pays, and what that changes

DAL pays quarterly, the standard schedule for US-listed payers, so the "per payment" column is one quarter of the annual figure and the "monthly average" column is a smoothed figure rather than a description of when cash arrives — nothing is paid in eight months of the year.

Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. DAL's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.

Is DAL's dividend covered by earnings?

DAL's payout ratio of 0.13 means roughly 13% of earnings go to the dividend, leaving the rest retained. A margin that size is what allows a payment to be maintained through a weaker year without being funded from borrowing.

That ratio deserves a caveat specific to cyclical earnings, though: it is struck against one year's profits, and in this kind of business those profits swing with prices the company does not set. A comfortable-looking ratio at the top of a cycle and a stretched one at the bottom can describe an unchanged dividend — so the level matters less here than where in the cycle it was measured.

The figures hold the dividend flat. No multi-year record of consecutive increases is on file for DAL, so treat the projection as arithmetic on today's payment rather than as an expectation about future ones.

DAL dividend calculator FAQ

How much does $10,000 in DAL pay in dividends?
At DAL's current yield of 0.89%, $10,000 pays about $89.15 a year — roughly $22.29 per payment, paid quarterly, or $7.43 a month averaged out.
What would DAL be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in DAL would grow to about $10,931 after 10 years, against $10,891 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
How often does DAL pay dividends?
DAL pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
Is DAL's dividend guaranteed?
No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check DAL's full payment history before relying on any of it.

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Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a common stock trading at $84.13 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.