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IBM Dividend Calculator

International Business Machines Corporation. Project monthly, quarterly and annual income, DRIP compounding, break-even and a year-by-year table. Runs in your browser; the numbers you enter live in the page URL so you can share or bookmark a result.

Prefilled with a 2.72% reference yield at $248.37 · as of 2026-09-15 · StockAnalysis. Edit any field.

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About IBM

IBM provides hybrid-cloud and AI software (including Red Hat), consulting and infrastructure such as mainframes. It spun off its managed-infrastructure business as Kyndryl in 2021. It has paid a quarterly dividend without interruption since 1916 and raised it for more than 25 consecutive years.

Type stock Sector Technology · enterprise software and services Pays quarterly TTM dividend $6.76/share

How this calculator works

Shares bought is investment ÷ price. The dividend per share per payment is price × yield ÷ 100 ÷ payments per year (4 for IBM). For every payment the calculator pays shares × dividend per share; with DRIP on it buys payment ÷ current price more shares, and any annual contribution is split evenly across the year's payments and also buys shares. The growth assumptions are converted to a per-payment rate so that they compound to the annual figure you enter. Break-even is the first month at which the dividends received so far reach 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of the capital contributed to that point, simulated out to 50 years. Yield on cost is the year's dividends divided by total capital contributed.

FAQ

How much does IBM pay per share?
As of 15 September 2026 the reference figures from StockAnalysis were a 2.72% trailing-twelve-month yield at a share price of $248.37, which works out to about $6.76 per share a year, paid quarterly (roughly $1.69 per quarter). The board sets each dividend, so check the issuer's latest declaration before relying on it.
How many IBM shares would it take to earn $1,000 a month?
At the reference yield of 2.72% you would need about 1,776 shares, roughly $441,176 at $248.37 a share, to receive $12,000 a year. Set the initial investment to that amount in the calculator to see the projection. A higher yield needs fewer shares; a lower yield needs more.
What does the DRIP toggle change?
With DRIP on, each dividend buys more IBM shares at the then-current price, so the next payment is slightly larger; the projection compounds 4 times a year. With DRIP off the dividends are counted as cash income and the share count only changes through your annual contributions.
Is the IBM yield in the calculator the forward or trailing yield?
The prefilled figure is the trailing-twelve-month yield reported by StockAnalysis: the last twelve months of dividends divided by the price on 15 September 2026. If International Business Machines Corporation has announced a dividend change since then, the forward yield will differ; replace the yield with (latest quarterly dividend × 4) ÷ price to use the forward figure.

Not financial advice. Reference figures as of 2026-09-15 from StockAnalysis; yields and prices change daily and dividends can be cut. Projections are arithmetic on your assumptions, not forecasts.