US JNJ Last updated: 2026-04-08

Johnson & Johnson dividend profile

Johnson & Johnson is presented here as an income-research page that combines yield, payout discipline, dividend growth, and company-specific watch items.

Johnson & Johnson is usually studied as a steadier U.S. dividend profile because healthcare demand, product breadth, and a long payout culture make it a classic income research name.

Trailing yield
3.1%
5Y dividend growth
5.5%
Payout ratio
46%
Next ex-dividend date
2026-04-15
Overall score
83
Why income investors watch it

Income investors often use JNJ as a benchmark for what a lower-yield, steadier dividend profile can look like when business quality matters as much as payout size.

What this yield means

Yield tells you how much income the market is offering today at the current price. It does not tell you whether that income will be easy to maintain.

Research checklist

  • Litigation and product-liability overhang
  • Healthcare portfolio reshaping and capital allocation
  • Whether dividend growth remains comfortably covered by underlying cash generation

A strong income case usually needs more than one green flag. The useful combination is payout room, business durability, and a believable path to future cash generation.

Dividend history data status

This page intentionally shows the audited metric set and avoids publishing a year-by-year payout series until the company-level history table is fully validated against the stock dataset.

That choice is deliberate. Publishing no annual payout table is safer than publishing a cloned or incomplete one. The audited metric set above remains live and useful while the stock-history layer is being validated.