Dividends API

About the Dividends API

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. Dividend yield is intentionally not included because it depends on a live share price.

What people use it for

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.

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON

Default REST response

XML

Markup format

YAML

Human-readable

CSV

Tabular export

Beta

GraphQL

Query language

New

MCP

For AI agents

Request parameters — GET /v1/dividends

Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.

Required

Optional

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

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.

Response — GET /v1/dividends

Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.

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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
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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.

Response headers

Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.

What a call costs — 6 credits per call

Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.

Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.

Zero-code embed — one snippet, no backend

Drop an interactive Dividends form onto any page. The widget calls the API for you, so no key ever appears in your markup and there is nothing to deploy.

Changelog — Dividends API

Every change to this endpoint, newest first. Breaking changes ship as a new version and the previous one keeps serving — response fields are added, never removed or retyped in place, so an integration written against v1 keeps working.

Currently v1