Dividends

Overview

Dividends works by reading the per-share dividend amounts a US public company reports in its SEC XBRL filings and layering on derived intelligence the raw filings do not carry - year-over-year dividend growth, 3 and 5 year growth rates, average growth and the number of consecutive years the dividend has increased (the classic dividend-grower signal). Data is refreshed continuously from official SEC filings. With metrics=true it also returns the trailing annual dividend, the dividend yield against the latest stored share price, and the payout ratio - the full-year dividend per share as a share of diluted earnings per share from the latest 10-K. Ex-dividend, record and payment dates are not included because SEC filings do not carry them.

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Endpoint

One host, one path per API. The block below shows this call in four languages; every one of them is the same HTTP request. Making requests covers the timeouts, retries and parameter rules that apply to all of them. The SDKs wrap the same call in a typed client.

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/dividends?ticker=AAPL&period=annual&limit=10&metrics=true" \
  -H "x-api-key: your_api_key_here"

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const res = await fetch('https://api.apiverve.com/v1/dividends?ticker=AAPL&period=annual&limit=10&metrics=true', {
  headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your_api_key_here' },
});

if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);

const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data);

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import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/dividends?ticker=AAPL&period=annual&limit=10&metrics=true",
    headers={"x-api-key": "your_api_key_here"},
    timeout=15,
)
res.raise_for_status()

print(res.json()["data"])

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/dividends?ticker=AAPL&period=annual&limit=10&metrics=true", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "your_api_key_here")

	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	out, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(out))
}

Replace your_api_key_here with the key from your dashboard. When the inputs arrive as a list rather than one at a time, batch requests run up to 200 of them through this same API in a single call.

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — there is no token exchange and no per-endpoint scope to configure. Authentication covers creating, rotating and revoking keys.

Parameters

Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Response

Every API returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape. Response format covers the envelope, the other output formats and how premium fields are withheld.

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{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "company": "Apple Inc.",
    "currency": "USD",
    "paysDividend": true,
    "latestDividendPerShare": 0.26,
    "latestDividendPeriod": "CY2026Q1",
    "latestDividendDate": "2026-03-28",
    "count": 5,
    "dividends": [
      {
        "period": "CY2026Q1",
        "periodEnd": "2026-03-28",
        "perShare": 0.26,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2025Q4",
        "periodEnd": "2025-12-27",
        "perShare": 0.26,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2025Q2",
        "periodEnd": "2025-06-28",
        "perShare": 0.26,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2025Q1",
        "periodEnd": "2025-03-29",
        "perShare": 0.25,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2024Q4",
        "periodEnd": "2024-12-28",
        "perShare": 0.25,
        "form": "10-Q"
      }
    ],
    "analytics": {
      "dividendGrowth1Y": 4.08,
      "dividendGrowth3YCagr": 4.26,
      "dividendGrowth5YCagr": 5.11,
      "consecutiveYearsOfGrowth": 7,
      "averageAnnualGrowthRate": 5.98,
      "isDividendGrower": true,
      "annualHistory": [
        {
          "period": "CY2018",
          "perShare": 0.68
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2019",
          "perShare": 0.75
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2020",
          "perShare": 0.795
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2021",
          "perShare": 0.85
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2022",
          "perShare": 0.9
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2023",
          "perShare": 0.94
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2024",
          "perShare": 0.98
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2025",
          "perShare": 1.02
        }
      ]
    },
    "metrics": {
      "trailingAnnualDividend": 1.02,
      "trailingAnnualPeriod": "CY2025",
      "dividendYield": 0.33,
      "priceAsOf": "2026-08-17T19:27:12.559994467Z",
      "payoutRatio": 13.67,
      "payoutRatioFiscalYear": 2025
    }
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change. Error handling covers the full status list and which of them are worth retrying.

Use cases

Income Screener Filtering

Filter equity watchlists by whether a company pays dividends and check consecutive years of payout increases to find dependable dividend aristocrats.

Portfolio Income Tracking

Wealth management apps pull recent per-share amounts and reporting dates to project quarterly income across client holdings.

Dividend Reinvestment Calculations

When planning automated dividend reinvestments, brokerage platforms query the latest dividend per share to estimate incoming cash per lot.

Stock Profile Summaries

Financial publishers display multi-year payout histories and SEC filing forms directly on stock profile pages for retail investors.

Other ways to use Dividends

Set up Dividends on APIVerve, or reach the same source a different way. Your APIVerve account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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