FNF Dividend Calculator
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. yields 5.02%, comfortably above the 2.92% median across US dividend payers. That puts FNF in the range where the income is the main reason to hold it, and where the durability of the payment does most of the work in any long-run figure.
FNF paid $2.08 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
FNF
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
5.02%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in FNF pays you
$502.17
per year
- Paid each quarter
- $125.54
- Monthly average
- $41.85
- Shares bought
- 241.43
- Payments a year
- 4
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$5,021.73
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.
FNF dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 5.02%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $50.22 | $12.55 | $4.18 |
| $5,000 | $251.09 | $62.77 | $20.92 |
| $10,000 | $502.17 | $125.54 | $41.85 |
| $25,000 | $1,255.43 | $313.86 | $104.62 |
| $50,000 | $2,510.86 | $627.72 | $209.24 |
| $100,000 | $5,021.73 | $1,255.43 | $418.48 |
FNF with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in FNF, 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
- $16,472
- After 20 years
- $27,131
- After 30 years
- $44,689
$15,022 taking the income as cash
$20,043 taking the income as cash
$25,065 taking the income as cash
What makes up FNF's 5.02% yield
FNF paid $2.08 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $41.42, which is where the 5.02% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
Yields at this level usually have a structural explanation rather than a mispricing: the company is organised to distribute income rather than retain it. Worth checking how FNF's current yield compares with its own history, since a sharp recent rise more often reflects a falling price than a raised payment.
Bank and insurer dividends are constrained by capital requirements as well as by earnings — a regulator can restrict distributions in a stress scenario regardless of what the business earned. Payments here have historically moved sharply in both directions around credit cycles.
When FNF pays, and what that changes
FNF 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. FNF's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is FNF's dividend covered by earnings?
FNF's payout ratio of 0.72 means about 72% of earnings are committed to the dividend. That is within earnings but a narrower margin than the sub-0.60 range generally considered comfortable, so a weaker year absorbs more of the cover.
Demand in this kind of business holds up across a cycle, so the earnings behind the ratio move less than the market's average and the figure is reasonably representative rather than a snapshot of a good year.
These projections hold the dividend flat, which understates FNF if its recent record continues — the payment has increased in each of the last 14 years. Growth is left out rather than estimated because choosing a growth rate, not the arithmetic, is what determines a decade-long projection.
FNF dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in FNF pay in dividends?
- At FNF's current yield of 5.02%, $10,000 pays about $502.17 a year — roughly $125.54 per payment, paid quarterly, or $41.85 a month averaged out.
- What would FNF be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in FNF would grow to about $16,472 after 10 years, against $15,022 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 FNF pay dividends?
- FNF pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is FNF'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 FNF's full payment history before relying on any of it.
- Why is FNF's dividend yield so high?
- FNF yields 5.02% against a 2.92% median across US dividend payers. A yield is a ratio, so it rises either because the payment went up or because the share price came down — and the figure alone does not say which. Yields this far above the market among ordinary operating companies are unusual and often reflect what the market expects rather than what has been announced.
- Has FNF increased its dividend every year?
- FNF has raised its dividend in each of the last 14 years on our records, which are derived from split-adjusted payment history and are approximate. The projections above deliberately ignore that growth and hold the payment flat, so a continuation of the record would put the real outcome above the figures shown.
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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. is a common stock trading at $41.42 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.