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DGX Dividend History, Yield & Dates
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DGXQuest Diagnostics Incorporated
Healthcare / Medical - Diagnostics & Research
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DGX Dividend answer
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (DGX) pays a quarterly dividend. Forward dividend yield: 1.37%, or $3.44 a year at the latest dividend. Trailing 12-month yield: 1.34%, from $3.38 per share paid over the past year. Its latest dividend was $0.86 per share. Latest ex-dividend date: Oct 6, 2026. Payment date: Oct 21, 2026. Next dividend status: not announced.
DGX Dividend Snapshot
Yield, annual dividend, latest payment, payout coverage, growth, and dividend history are emphasized for this stock. Yield methodology is labeled separately from payout coverage.
Next DGX Dividend Date
When DGX next goes ex-dividend, the amount where it has been declared, and whether that state is announced, projected or not yet known.
Next DGX dividend
DGX's next dividend has not yet been announced. The latest completed dividend was $0.86 per share. Data last checked: Oct 10, 2026.
Latest DGX Dividend Dates
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DGX Dividend History
Recent per-share dividends show payment cadence. Trailing-year and growth reads are shown only when the available rows cover a complete comparable window.
Dividend reliability
Recent dividend payments are summarized as cadence and coverage signals. Exact rows remain below for auditability.
DGX Annual Dividend History
DGX Dividend Growth
Latest row amount $0.86, event yield 1.46%.
This page labels the feed as recent history when multi-year rows, payment dates, or record dates are incomplete. Announced calendar dates are separated from completed dividend history.
Dividend growth
- 5-year regular dividend CAGR
- 7.35%
- 2020 regular DPS
- $2.210
- 2025 regular DPS
- $3.150
- Absolute change
- $0.940
- Years increased
- 4
- Years reduced
- 1
DGX's split-adjusted regular dividend per share grew at 7.35% a year from 2020 through 2025.
DGX reduced its regular dividend in at least one calendar year between 2020 and 2025.
Split-adjusted regular dividends per share, 2020–2025, excluding special dividends. Research as of Sep 19, 2026.
DGX Dividend Yield
How DGX's trailing 12-month dividend yield is calculated, and what it does and does not account for.
Yield methodology
DGX's trailing dividend yield is the regular dividends paid over the last twelve months divided by the latest available share price. Payouts classified as special or supplemental are excluded, because a one-off payment is not recurring income. It is a backward-looking measure and is not the same as a forward yield, which annualises the most recent declared payment instead.
Dividend coverage
Coverage is read from earnings and cash flow rather than from the yield. A payout ratio leaves room, or does not; free cash flow either covers the payment, or the company is funding it another way. These are inputs to a judgement, not a guarantee of future payments.
Recent DGX dividend payments
| Ex-date | Dividend | Adjusted | Yield at ex-date | Frequency | TTM adjusted | Declared | Record date | Payment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.86 | $0.86 | 1.46% | Quarterly | $3.38 | Aug 12, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Jul 8, 2026 | $0.86 | $0.86 | 1.59% | Quarterly | $3.32 | May 19, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 |
| Apr 6, 2026 | $0.86 | $0.86 | 1.64% | Quarterly | $3.26 | Feb 10, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | Apr 20, 2026 |
| Jan 13, 2026 | $0.80 | $0.80 | 1.78% | Quarterly | $3.20 | Nov 11, 2025 | Jan 13, 2026 | Jan 28, 2026 |
| Oct 3, 2025 | $0.80 | $0.80 | 1.76% | Quarterly | $3.15 | Aug 13, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | Oct 20, 2025 |
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| Jul 7, 2025 | $0.80 | $0.80 | 1.78% | Quarterly | $3.10 | May 14, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | Jul 21, 2025 |
| Apr 7, 2025 | $0.80 | $0.80 | 1.86% | Quarterly | $3.05 | Jan 30, 2025 | Apr 7, 2025 | Apr 21, 2025 |
| Jan 14, 2025 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 1.96% | Quarterly | $3.00 | Nov 12, 2024 | Jan 14, 2025 | Jan 29, 2025 |
| Oct 4, 2024 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 1.96% | Quarterly | $2.96 | Aug 14, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | Oct 21, 2024 |
| Jul 8, 2024 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 2.10% | Quarterly | $2.92 | May 15, 2024 | Jul 8, 2024 | Jul 22, 2024 |
| Apr 5, 2024 | $0.75 | $0.75 | 2.20% | Quarterly | $2.88 | Feb 1, 2024 | Apr 8, 2024 | Apr 22, 2024 |
| Jan 16, 2024 | $0.71 | $0.71 | 2.12% | Quarterly | $2.84 | Nov 13, 2023 | Jan 17, 2024 | Jan 31, 2024 |
| Oct 5, 2023 | $0.71 | $0.71 | 2.27% | Quarterly | $2.79 | Aug 14, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | Oct 23, 2023 |
| Jul 10, 2023 | $0.71 | $0.71 | 1.96% | Quarterly | $2.74 | May 16, 2023 | Jul 11, 2023 | Jul 25, 2023 |
| Apr 6, 2023 | $0.71 | $0.71 | 1.88% | Quarterly | $3.35 | Feb 2, 2023 | Apr 10, 2023 | Apr 24, 2023 |
| Jan 17, 2023 | $0.66 | $0.66 | 1.79% | Quarterly | $3.30 | Nov 14, 2022 | Jan 18, 2023 | Feb 1, 2023 |
| Oct 3, 2022 | $0.66 | $0.66 | 2.07% | Quarterly | $3.26 | Aug 10, 2022 | Oct 4, 2022 | Oct 19, 2022 |
| Jul 5, 2022 | $0.66 | $0.66 | 1.92% | Quarterly | $3.22 | May 17, 2022 | Jul 6, 2022 | Jul 20, 2022 |
| Jun 3, 2022 | $0.66 | $0.66 | 1.88% | Irregular | $2.56 | — | — | — |
| Apr 5, 2022 | $0.66 | $0.66 | 1.89% | Quarterly | $2.52 | Feb 3, 2022 | Apr 6, 2022 | Apr 20, 2022 |
| Jan 18, 2022 | $0.62 | $0.62 | 1.79% | Quarterly | $2.48 | Nov 17, 2021 | Jan 19, 2022 | Feb 2, 2022 |
| Oct 4, 2021 | $0.62 | $0.62 | 1.71% | Quarterly | $2.42 | Aug 16, 2021 | Oct 5, 2021 | Oct 20, 2021 |
| Jul 6, 2021 | $0.62 | $0.62 | 1.77% | Quarterly | $2.36 | May 20, 2021 | Jul 7, 2021 | Jul 21, 2021 |
| Apr 6, 2021 | $0.62 | $0.62 | 1.79% | Quarterly | $2.30 | Feb 4, 2021 | Apr 7, 2021 | Apr 21, 2021 |
| Jan 19, 2021 | $0.56 | $0.56 | 1.78% | Quarterly | $2.24 | Nov 18, 2020 | Jan 20, 2021 | Feb 3, 2021 |
| Oct 5, 2020 | $0.56 | $0.56 | 1.92% | Quarterly | $2.21 | Aug 18, 2020 | Oct 6, 2020 | Oct 21, 2020 |
| Jul 7, 2020 | $0.56 | $0.56 | 1.86% | Quarterly | $2.18 | May 18, 2020 | Jul 8, 2020 | Jul 22, 2020 |
| Apr 6, 2020 | $0.56 | $0.56 | 2.73% | Quarterly | $2.15 | Jan 30, 2020 | Apr 7, 2020 | Apr 21, 2020 |
| Jan 13, 2020 | $0.53 | $0.53 | 1.99% | Quarterly | $2.12 | Nov 20, 2019 | Jan 14, 2020 | Jan 29, 2020 |
| Oct 3, 2019 | $0.53 | $0.53 | 2.05% | Quarterly | $2.12 | Aug 15, 2019 | Oct 4, 2019 | Oct 21, 2019 |
| Jul 5, 2019 | $0.53 | $0.53 | 2.02% | Quarterly | $2.09 | May 14, 2019 | Jul 8, 2019 | Jul 22, 2019 |
| Apr 5, 2019 | $0.53 | $0.53 | 2.27% | Quarterly | $2.06 | Mar 1, 2019 | Apr 8, 2019 | Apr 22, 2019 |
| Jan 14, 2019 | $0.53 | $0.53 | 2.43% | Quarterly | $2.03 | Nov 28, 2018 | Jan 15, 2019 | Jan 30, 2019 |
| Oct 4, 2018 | $0.50 | $0.50 | 1.89% | Quarterly | $1.95 | Aug 17, 2018 | Oct 5, 2018 | Oct 22, 2018 |
| Jul 6, 2018 | $0.50 | $0.50 | 1.72% | Quarterly | $1.90 | May 14, 2018 | Jul 9, 2018 | Jul 23, 2018 |
| Apr 3, 2018 | $0.50 | $0.50 | 1.87% | Quarterly | $1.85 | Feb 1, 2018 | Apr 4, 2018 | Apr 18, 2018 |
| Jan 8, 2018 | $0.45 | $0.45 | 1.81% | Quarterly | $1.80 | Nov 29, 2017 | Jan 9, 2018 | Jan 24, 2018 |
| Oct 2, 2017 | $0.45 | $0.45 | 1.92% | Quarterly | $1.80 | Aug 18, 2017 | Oct 3, 2017 | Oct 18, 2017 |
| Jul 6, 2017 | $0.45 | $0.45 | 1.61% | Quarterly | — | May 16, 2017 | Jul 10, 2017 | Jul 24, 2017 |
| Apr 3, 2017 | $0.45 | $0.45 | 1.73% | Quarterly | — | Feb 21, 2017 | Apr 5, 2017 | Apr 19, 2017 |
| Jan 6, 2017 | $0.45 | $0.45 | 1.79% | Quarterly | — | Nov 21, 2016 | Jan 10, 2017 | Jan 25, 2017 |
| Sep 30, 2016 | $0.40 | $0.40 | 1.87% | Quarterly | — | Aug 17, 2016 | Oct 4, 2016 | Oct 19, 2016 |
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Stable or rising payments can indicate capital return discipline. Flat, skipped, or missing payments should be read with earnings and cash flow before drawing conclusions.
A low payout ratio can leave room for growth; a high payout ratio can indicate limited cushion. Cyclical companies need more room than stable defensive businesses.
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DGX Dividends FAQ
Does DGX pay a dividend?
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (DGX) has covered dividend payment history on this page, including a latest dividend of $0.86 per share and a quarterly cadence based on available events.
What is DGX's dividend yield?
DGX's trailing dividend yield is 1.34%. Trailing dividend yield equals dividends paid over the trailing 12 months divided by the latest available share price.
When is DGX's next dividend?
DGX's next dividend has not been announced in the current AlgovestIQ snapshot. The latest completed dividend row remains available in the history table when covered data exists.
When is DGX's ex-dividend date?
DGX's latest covered ex-dividend date is Oct 6, 2026. Future ex-dividend dates are shown only when announced or explicitly projected.
How has DGX's dividend changed?
DGX's one-year dividend growth is 7.30% based on comparable covered dividend history.