How much does $10,000 in DFAE pay in dividends?

At DFAE's current yield of 1.87%, $10,000 pays about $186.79 a year — roughly $46.70 per payment, paid quarterly, or $15.57 a month averaged out.

What would DFAE be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?

Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in DFAE would grow to about $12,049 after 10 years, against $11,868 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 DFAE pay dividends?

DFAE pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.

Is DFAE'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 DFAE's full payment history before relying on any of it.

Is DFAE's distribution the same as a company dividend?

Not quite. DFAE is a fund: it collects dividends from the companies it holds and passes them through after costs, so the distribution moves with the portfolio's income rather than with a single company's decision. It also means no payout ratio applies — there are no earnings of its own to pay out of — and that a rebalance into different holdings can change the distribution on its own.

DFAE Dividend Calculator

Dimensional - Emerging Core Equity Market ETF yields 1.87%, below the 2.97% median across US dividend payers. The income from DFAE 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.

DFAE paid $0.74 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.

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DFAE

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Amount invested

Holding period10 years

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Dividend income

$10,000 in DFAE pays you

$186.79

per year

Paid each quarter: $46.70
Monthly average: $15.57
Shares bought: 253.16
Payments a year: 4

Total over 10 years, taken as cash

$1,867.92

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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.

DFAE dividend income by investment amount

Based on the current yield of 1.87%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.

Dividend income from DFAE at a range of investment amounts.
Invested	Per year	Per payment	Monthly average
$1,000	$18.68	$4.67	$1.56
$5,000	$93.40	$23.35	$7.78
$10,000	$186.79	$46.70	$15.57
$25,000	$466.98	$116.74	$38.91
$50,000	$933.96	$233.49	$77.83
$100,000	$1,867.92	$466.98	$155.66

DFAE with dividends reinvested

$10,000 in DFAE, 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: $12,049
After 20 years: $14,517
After 30 years: $17,490

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What makes up DFAE's 1.87% yield

DFAE is an exchange-traded fund, so the 1.87% on this page is income collected from its holdings and passed through, net of the fund's costs. It is not paid out of DFAE's own earnings, which is why no payout ratio appears anywhere on this page — the concept does not apply to a fund. The practical consequence for the projections below is that the distribution moves when the underlying portfolio's income moves, and a fund that rebalances into higher- or lower-yielding positions changes its own payment without any single company having cut one.

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 DFAE and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.

When DFAE pays, and what that changes

DFAE 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. DFAE's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.

What stands behind DFAE's distribution

There is no coverage ratio to check on a fund. What stands behind DFAE's distribution is the aggregate income of everything it holds, so the question that matters is whether those holdings' own payments are durable — a diversified fund will not cut its distribution because one holding did, but it will if many do at once.

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

DFAE dividend calculator FAQ

How much does $10,000 in DFAE pay in dividends?: At DFAE's current yield of 1.87%, $10,000 pays about $186.79 a year — roughly $46.70 per payment, paid quarterly, or $15.57 a month averaged out.
What would DFAE be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?: Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in DFAE would grow to about $12,049 after 10 years, against $11,868 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 DFAE pay dividends?: DFAE pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
Is DFAE'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 DFAE's full payment history before relying on any of it.
Is DFAE's distribution the same as a company dividend?: Not quite. DFAE is a fund: it collects dividends from the companies it holds and passes them through after costs, so the distribution moves with the portfolio's income rather than with a single company's decision. It also means no payout ratio applies — there are no earnings of its own to pay out of — and that a rebalance into different holdings can change the distribution on its own.

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Dimensional - Emerging Core Equity Market ETF is an exchange-traded fund trading at $39.50 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.