Delta Air Lines, Inc.: dividend
Price
$86.25
November 13, 2026Market cap $56.3B
What Ploutos Investor adds for Delta Air Lines
Part of Ploutos Investor, €9.99 a month
- The full history: 17 fiscal years, from 2009
- The estimated fair value, with its range and its certainty
- The full analysis, 18 a month
- More questions to the chat on its filings
- Excel with every year
- An email when it reports, changes its dividend or an officer buys
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Yield
0.91%
$0.79 per share over the last 12 months, at a price of $86.25.
- FCF coverThe year's free cash flow was 12.6 times the dividend it paid.
- 12.6x
- Payout16% of the last 12 months' earnings went to the dividend.
- 16%
- No cut
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- 5-year growthFewer than five years of dividends.
- –
- Debt / EBITDAMoney that goes to interest does not go to the dividend.
- 1.2x
The dividend year by year
What it paid per share each fiscal year, how much that changed, and the yield it gave at the price at year end.
- 2025Dividend per share$0.68
- 2024Dividend per share$0.50
- 2023Dividend per share$0.20
| Year | Dividend per share | Change | Price | Yield then | As % of earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.68 | +35.0% | $69.40 | 0.97% | 9% |
| 2024 | $0.50 | +150.0% | $60.50 | 0.83% | 9% |
| 2023 | $0.20 | – | $40.23 | 0.50% | 3% |
Each fiscal year's dividend as the company states it in its filings, adjusted for stock splits. Special dividends count in the year they were paid.
The dividend year by year
DAL's dividend per share each fiscal year, from 2009 to 2022, 14 more fiscal years
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Everything it returns to shareholders
The dividend is one way. The other is buybacks, which reduce the number of shares.
Dividend yield
0.91%
$9.10 a year per $1,000 of shares
Buybacks
–
The share count rose by 1.1% over the year, so more shares were issued than bought back.
Total returned
0.91%
$9.10 a year per $1,000 of shares
DAL beside the other dividend payers
Where it stands among this week's 968 dividend payers, and in the Industrials sector. The dot is the company, the white line the median.
Above 21% of the payers · median 2.03%
In Industrials: above 35%, median 1.23%.
Above 90% of the payers · median 3.6x
In Industrials: above 84%, median 3.9x.
Above 16% of the payers · median 35%
In Industrials: above 20%, median 31%.
The full analysis
What do Delta Air Lines's filings show?
The dividend is one part of Delta Air Lines's picture. The full Ploutos AI analysis reads everything the company has filed and shows what stands behind it, with a source for every figure.
- A fair value range built from the filings
- Earnings quality, debt and red flags
- Insider and institutional moves
- The case for and the case against
What is DAL's dividend yield?
Delta Air Lines paid $0.79 per share over the last 12 months. At a price of $86.25, that is a yield of 0.91%.
Does DAL cover its dividend with the cash it makes?
Yes, over the last year. Delta Air Lines's free cash flow was 12.6 times the dividend it paid.
Related pages
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The figures come from the company's SEC filings and the share price, and describe what it has reported. They are not a score or a fair value.