GILD Dividend Calculator
Gilead Sciences, Inc. yields 2.15%, below the 2.92% median across US dividend payers. The income from GILD 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.
GILD paid $3.25 per share over the last twelve months on a quarterly schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
GILD
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
2.15%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in GILD pays you
$214.71
per year
- Paid each quarter
- $53.68
- Monthly average
- $17.89
- Shares bought
- 66.06
- Payments a year
- 4
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$2,147.06
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.
GILD dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 2.15%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $21.47 | $5.37 | $1.79 |
| $5,000 | $107.35 | $26.84 | $8.95 |
| $10,000 | $214.71 | $53.68 | $17.89 |
| $25,000 | $536.76 | $134.19 | $44.73 |
| $50,000 | $1,073.53 | $268.38 | $89.46 |
| $100,000 | $2,147.06 | $536.76 | $178.92 |
GILD with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in GILD, 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
- $12,388
- After 20 years
- $15,346
- After 30 years
- $19,010
$12,147 taking the income as cash
$14,294 taking the income as cash
$16,441 taking the income as cash
What makes up GILD's 2.15% yield
GILD paid $3.25 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $151.37, which is where the 2.15% 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 GILD and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.
Healthcare dividends compete for the same cash as research spending, which is why yields in the sector are typically modest even at large companies. The sector-specific risk to the payment is patent expiry: revenue concentrated in one or two products can step down sharply rather than decline gradually.
When GILD pays, and what that changes
GILD 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. GILD's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is GILD's dividend covered by earnings?
GILD's payout ratio is negative, which means the dividend is being paid while the company reports a loss. A dividend can be funded from cash reserves or borrowing through a loss-making period, but not from profits that do not exist — and every projection above assumes the current payment continues indefinitely.
These projections hold the dividend flat, which understates GILD if its recent record continues — the payment has increased in each of the last 10 years. Growth is left out rather than estimated because choosing a growth rate, not the arithmetic, is what determines a decade-long projection.
GILD dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in GILD pay in dividends?
- At GILD's current yield of 2.15%, $10,000 pays about $214.71 a year — roughly $53.68 per payment, paid quarterly, or $17.89 a month averaged out.
- What would GILD be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in GILD would grow to about $12,388 after 10 years, against $12,147 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 GILD pay dividends?
- GILD pays quarterly — 4 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is GILD'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 GILD's full payment history before relying on any of it.
- Has GILD increased its dividend every year?
- GILD has raised its dividend in each of the last 10 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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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a common stock trading at $151.37 per share, paying quarterly. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.