Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in May

Here at Income Calendar, we bring you this stocks going ex-dividend in May page by taking a look at the most popular dividend stocks being tracked across our calendar system that also happen to typically go ex-div during the month of May. We broke down the resulting May dividend stocks list into groupings by yield level, starting with the lowest yielders that pay dividends with a recent yield of 2% or under (based on recent dividend levels and recent stock price):

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Moving on to our next stocks going ex-dividend in May group, we step up to dividend yields in the range of 2-4%. Many investors gravitate to this general level of dividend yield around 2%, 3%, and 4%, because those levels can often compare favorably to other fixed income options, while also providing the opportunity for growth when good stock-picking is applied.

As we continue moving higher in yield, we start to get to levels that well exceed the long-term rate of expected inflation as measured by the CPI; this next batch of stocks going ex-dividend in May all typically go ex-dividend in the month of May and offer yields in the solid range of 4% to 6%.