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Brown Forman Corp. dividends

Brown Forman paid $0.9195 a share over the last four quarters, a 3.01% yield. The dividend per share has gone up 3 years in a row, by 5.3% a year over the last five.

Dividend, last four quarters$0.9195a 3.01% yield
Latest dividend$0.231paid 1 Oct 2026
Rises in a row3 yearsthe dividend per share went up
Growth a year, 5 years+5.3%+5.7% over 10 years
Paid out of free cash flow46%59% of profit
New to this? How to read this page
  1. Dividend per share is the cash a company pays for each share you own, here added up for each fiscal year.
  2. Yield is the yearly dividend over the share price: what $100 of stock pays you in a year.
  3. Payout is the share of profit, or of free cash flow, paid out. Below 100% the dividend is covered; above it the company paid more than it made that year.
  4. A dividend that grows year after year is often a sign of a steady business. A very high yield can mean the market expects a cut.

Dividend per share

The dividend went from $0.3147 in FY2010 to $0.915 in FY2026, up 5.3% a year over the last five.

Each column is the regular dividend per share for one fiscal year, or one quarter on Quarters, on today's share count after any split. A paler column is a period with more or fewer payments than usual. Hover or tap for the change on the period before.

Is the dividend covered?

FY2010 to FY2026

In FY2026 Brown Forman earned $1.53 a share and paid $0.915: the dividend took 60% of profit.

Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share

Three columns a year on one dollar scale: what the company earned, what cash it had left after investing, and what it paid out, each per share. A dividend column taller than the other two was paid out of savings or borrowing that year.

How much of earnings it pays out

share of each year

The dividend took more than the year's profit in 2 years (FY2013, FY2018).

Of net profitOf free cash flow

The share of each year's net profit (blue) and free cash flow (green) paid as dividends. The dashed line is 100%: above it, the company paid more than it made that year.

Yield at each year's end

FY2010 to FY2026

The yield is 3.01% today, above its middle year of 1.5% in the years shown.

That year's dividend per share over the share price at the fiscal year's end. The dashed line is the middle year. A higher yield than usual can come from a lower share price or a bigger dividend; the columns above tell which.

How it compares

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    Every year and quarter as a table

    Latest declared dividend

    Per shareDeclaredRecord datePayableFiling
    $0.23123 July 20263 September 20261 October 20268-K filed 2 September 2026

    Dividends by fiscal year

    Fiscal yearDividend per shareDividends paidOf net profitOf free cash flow
    FY2026$0.915$427.0 million60%48%
    FY2025$0.8886$420.0 million48%97%
    FY2024$0.8466$404.0 million40%96%
    FY2023$0.788$378.0 million48%83%
    FY2022$1.736$831.0 million99%104%
    FY2021$0.7076$338.0 million37%45%
    FY2020$0.6806$325.0 million39%53%
    FY2019$0.648$310.0 million37%46%
    FY2018$1.608$773.0 million108%147%
    FY2017$0.564$274.0 million41%50%
    FY2016$0.524$266.0 million25%64%
    FY2015$0.484$256.0 million37%52%
    FY2014$0.436$233.0 million35%45%
    FY2013$1.992$1.06 billion180%240%
    FY2012$0.356$192.0 million37%42%
    FY2011$0.596$326.0 million57%67%
    FY2010$0.3147$174.0 million39%34%
    FY2009n/a$169.0 million39%38%
    Dividend per share as each annual report states it, beside the cash paid to shareholders that year and that cash over net profit and free cash flow.
    Read moreAbove 100%, the company paid out more than its profit or free cash flow that year.

    Dividends by quarter

    QuarterQuarter endedDividend per share
    Q1 FY201931 July 2018$0.158
    Q4 FY201830 April 2018$1.158 *
    Q3 FY201831 January 2018$0.158
    Q2 FY201831 October 2017$0.146
    Q1 FY201831 July 2017$0.146
    Q4 FY201730 April 2017$0.146 *
    Q3 FY201731 January 2017$0.146
    Q2 FY201731 October 2016$0.136
    Q1 FY201731 July 2016$0.136
    Q4 FY201630 April 2016$0.136 *
    Q3 FY201631 January 2016$0.136
    Q2 FY201631 October 2015$0.126
    Regular dividend per share for each fiscal quarter, one dividend to a quarter where the filings allow it.
    Read moreA quarter marked * is the year less its first three quarters.

    Special dividends

    AnnouncedPer shareRecord datePayableFiling
    8 December 2021$1.008-K
    27 November 2012$4.008-K
    1 December 2010$1.0010 December 201028 December 20108-K

    One-off dividends the board declared on top of the regular ones, as announced on Form 8-K.