INTC Dividend Calculator
Dividend growth rate (CAGR)
| Year | Yield | Div / share | Annual income | Yield on cost | Cumulative income | Portfolio value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.4% | $0.50 | $43.00 | 0.3% | $43.00 | $14,221 | 105.77 |
| 2 | 0.3% | $0.44 | $46.16 | 0.3% | $89.16 | $19,119 | 122.62 |
| 3 | 0.2% | $0.38 | $46.84 | 0.3% | $136.00 | $24,800 | 137.16 |
| 4 | 0.2% | $0.33 | $45.87 | 0.2% | $181.87 | $31,387 | 149.68 |
| 5 | 0.1% | $0.29 | $43.82 | 0.2% | $225.69 | $39,024 | 160.48 |
| 6 | 0.1% | $0.26 | $41.12 | 0.2% | $266.81 | $47,878 | 169.77 |
| 7 | 0.1% | $0.22 | $38.09 | 0.1% | $304.90 | $58,142 | 177.78 |
| 8 | 0.1% | $0.20 | $34.91 | 0.1% | $339.81 | $70,043 | 184.67 |
| 9 | 0.0% | $0.17 | $31.75 | 0.1% | $371.56 | $83,840 | 190.61 |
| 10 | 0.0% | $0.15 | $28.69 | 0.1% | $400.25 | $99,837 | 195.72 |
Year 1-10 dividend income (preview)
Based on a $10,000 initial investment with $200.00 monthly contributions, DRIP on.
Historical dividends per share
Recent dividends
| Ex-date | Cash amount | TTM yield | Fwd yield | Share price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-07 | $0.13 | 2.6% | 2.6% | $18.99 |
| 2024-05-06 | $0.13 | 1.6% | 1.6% | $30.97 |
| 2024-02-06 | $0.13 | 1.2% | 1.2% | $42.74 |
| 2023-11-06 | $0.13 | 1.9% | 1.3% | $37.95 |
| 2023-08-04 | $0.13 | 2.8% | 1.4% | $35.14 |
| 2023-05-04 | $0.13 | 5.1% | 1.6% | $31.24 |
| 2023-02-06 | $0.37 | 5.1% | 5.1% | $28.69 |
| 2022-11-04 | $0.37 | 5.2% | 5.2% | $28.20 |
| 2022-08-04 | $0.37 | 5.0% | 4.1% | $35.66 |
| 2022-05-05 | $0.37 | 4.0% | 3.3% | $44.60 |
| 2022-02-04 | $0.37 | 2.9% | 3.0% | $48.01 |
| 2021-11-04 | $0.35 | 3.4% | 2.8% | $50.31 |
Source: Polygon.io. Last 12 dividend distributions, most recent first. TTM yield = sum of last 12 months of payments ÷ share price on ex-date. Forward yield = this payment × detected payout frequency ÷ share price on ex-date.
About INTC
Intel Corporation — ticker INTC — is one of the foundational US semiconductor companies and, for most of the past three decades, was one of the longest-running dividend growers in the technology sector. The current dividend status, however, requires the clearest possible statement up front. Intel suspended its dividend in Q3 2024 as part of capital reallocation to its foundry business under the IDM 2.0 strategy. The calculator on this page reflects historical pre-suspension distributions; no forward dividend is currently being paid. The Aristocrat-bracket consecutive-increase streak that Intel had built across roughly three decades was broken at that point, and the company has not declared a regular cash distribution since. This is not a dividend freeze in the sense the term is used for CVS's 2017-2022 hold pattern at the same per-share rate — Intel has set the cash distribution to zero, and the headline ticker carries no current cash yield from a forward-looking distribution.
The strategic context for the suspension is the multi-year IDM 2.0 transformation announced under former CEO Pat Gelsinger and continued under his successor. The core premise is to reposition Intel as both an integrated device manufacturer and a contract foundry serving external customers — Intel Foundry Services — in direct competition with TSMC and Samsung Foundry. Building leading-edge foundry capacity at the scale required to compete in that market is extraordinarily capital-intensive: tens of billions of dollars per year in capex across multiple fabs and process nodes. Management's framing of the dividend suspension was explicit — cash retained from the dividend would be redirected to the capex program — and the dividend was framed as the lowest-priority use of capital while the foundry buildout consumes balance-sheet capacity. Whether and when Intel reinstates a cash distribution depends on the capex trajectory, the timing of profitable external-foundry-customer revenue, and the broader competitive position of the x86 product line against AMD and the AI-compute position against Nvidia.
Intel operates in the Technology sector, specifically semiconductor design and manufacturing. The current business is organized around the Client Computing Group (consumer and commercial x86 CPUs), Data Center and AI (server CPUs and accelerator efforts), Network and Edge, the Mobileye majority stake, and Intel Foundry Services as the emerging contract-manufacturing arm. Each segment faces a distinctive competitive picture: x86 client share is under sustained pressure from AMD; data-center CPU share has been contested by AMD's EPYC line and by Arm-based custom silicon at the hyperscalers; the AI-accelerator opportunity is dominated by Nvidia; and the foundry side is a multi-year buildout against incumbents with decades of operational lead. The dividend suspension is a direct function of the capital intensity required to address that competitive picture, not a discretionary capital-return choice in a flat-business environment.
The calculator on this page is provided for historical context and for the use case in which Intel reinstates a distribution at some future point. The forward yield figure displayed on the calculator (approximately 0.43%) reflects the trailing-twelve-month residual from the last quarterly dividend paid in Q2 2024 — a mechanical artifact of yield computation against the previous twelve months of distributions, not a forward-looking dividend rate. The actual forward dividend rate is zero. Expense ratio is not applicable to individual stocks. The pre-suspension Intel was a thirty-plus-year dividend grower; the post-suspension Intel pays no dividend.
How INTC pays dividends
Intel does not currently pay a dividend. The most recent quarterly distribution was paid on September 1, 2024 at $0.125 per share, after which the board suspended further regular cash distributions in connection with the capex-reallocation decision. There is no committed restart date, no published policy on reinstatement criteria, and no per-share amount being declared on the historical February–May–August–November cadence that the company used pre-suspension. A holder of Intel shares today receives no cash dividend payments.
The historical pre-suspension cadence, for reference and for the case in which Intel reinstates a distribution at a comparable structure: Intel paid cash dividends quarterly, on a February–May–August–November cadence, with the ex-dividend date typically in the first week of the second month of each quarter and the pay date roughly four weeks later. Holders who held shares as of the close on the day before the ex-date received the dividend on the standard mechanics. The 2024 dividend was already substantially lower than the pre-2023 dividend — Intel had cut the per-share quarterly amount from $0.365 to $0.125 in early 2023 as part of an earlier capital-preservation step, ahead of the full suspension in 2024. The trajectory therefore was: $0.365/quarter through Q1 2023, $0.125/quarter through Q3 2024, and zero from Q4 2024 onward.
The calculator on this page projects income using the historical pre-suspension data as the input. Because the trailing window still contains the Q1 2024 and Q2 2024 distributions of $0.125 per share, the displayed forward yield is a small positive number rather than zero, even though the forward-looking dividend rate is zero. This is a mechanical residual of the trailing-twelve-month yield computation, not a forecast. A holder who wants an honest forward income projection from Intel as a dividend stock should treat the projection as zero forward income unless and until the board reinstates a regular cash distribution. The historical reinvestment-and-yield math the calculator performs is structurally meaningful only as a "what-if Intel reinstates" exercise, not as a live income projection. Intel's dividends, when paid historically, were qualified for the long-term capital-gains rate in taxable accounts.
Who INTC suits
INTC currently pays no dividend. This page exists for historical context and in case Intel reinstates a distribution in the future. If you are searching for INTC dividend income today, the answer is zero — the underlying business is in a capex-heavy turnaround with no forward distribution policy. The structural fit of INTC for an income-focused portfolio today is therefore zero on the income axis. Investors who hold or buy Intel shares are buying exposure to the IDM 2.0 turnaround thesis, not to a dividend income stream — the investment case rests entirely on the eventual outcome of the foundry buildout, the path of x86 share against AMD, and the eventual relevance (or not) of Intel's offerings in the AI-compute space dominated by Nvidia.
For a reader who is evaluating Intel as a turnaround play with the possibility of dividend reinstatement at some future date, the structural framework is different from a normal dividend-stock evaluation. The relevant questions are about whether Intel Foundry Services reaches breakeven and then profitability on external customer revenue, whether the x86 client and data-center share losses to AMD stabilize, and whether the balance sheet supports a return to dividend distributions before another capital event (equity issuance, asset sales, or further capex reduction) is required. None of those questions can be answered with confidence today, and an income-focused portfolio construction process generally does not put weight on speculative dividend-reinstatement scenarios.
The most useful comparison for INTC today is against other large US semiconductor names with intact dividends — TXN (Texas Instruments) and BRCM (Broadcom) — both of which have continued to grow their dividends through the same broad sector pressure window, illustrating that the dividend suspension at Intel is a company-specific consequence of the foundry buildout decision rather than a sector-wide phenomenon. Against pure-play foundries — TSMC and GlobalFoundries — Intel's structural competitive position is the open question that determines the entire investment case. As with any single-stock position, this content is educational only; it is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold Intel, and individual circumstances vary. Technology-and-capex-specific risks — including the IDM 2.0 execution outcome, x86 share losses to AMD, the AI-compute competitive position against Nvidia, and the eventual decision on whether to reinstate the dividend — should be weighed in full before holding INTC as an income-oriented position, recognizing that the income line today is zero.
Hypothetical scenarios
Scenario 1: $10,000 invested in Intel before the 2023 dividend cut
Consider a hypothetical purchase of $10,000 of Intel stock at the start of 2022, before the February 2023 step-down in the per-share dividend (from $0.365/quarter to $0.125/quarter) and well before the Q3 2024 full suspension. We use this entry point deliberately. It illustrates the structural risk for income investors who held INTC into the IDM 2.0 capex window — the income line that looked stable at the start of 2022 was first cut by roughly two-thirds in early 2023, then went to zero in late 2024 as the dividend was suspended in connection with the foundry buildout. Treating Intel as a continuous-streak Aristocrat over the holding window would be wrong; the streak ended at the suspension, and the income story for an investor who bought at the start of 2022 is one of two successive downward steps.
Three structural forces operate over the holding window, in a direction materially different from a normal Aristocrat. First, the per-share dividend dropped from $0.365 to $0.125 in February 2023, then to zero from Q4 2024 — a path that is the opposite of the typical Aristocrat pattern. Second, the share count grew modestly via DRIP only through Q3 2024, with no further DRIP from Q4 2024 onward because there is no cash distribution to reinvest. Third, the share price fell substantially across most of the window as the market repriced Intel's competitive position against AMD and Nvidia and absorbed the capex-and-execution risk on the foundry buildout. The total return profile for an early-2022 entry has been dominated by the price decline, not by the dividend line.
The illustrative outcome is not a precise dollar figure. The structural point is that Intel's recent history is the canonical example of why income investors should pay close attention to capital-allocation decisions when they conflict with dividend continuity. The 2023 cut was a clear signal that the dividend was a secondary priority behind the foundry buildout; the 2024 suspension confirmed the trajectory. The central caution is that even a long-streak Aristocrat can suspend the dividend entirely when capex requirements force the capital-allocation choice, particularly in capital-intensive industries where the strategic stakes are existential.
Scenario 2: Modeling INTC if Intel reinstates the dividend
The calculator on this page can model a hypothetical reinstatement scenario for educational purposes, recognizing that no such reinstatement has been announced and that the actual forward dividend is zero. The framing is: $50,000 starting capital, plus $500 per month added on a regular cadence for 20 years, with DRIP on, and a manually-entered initial yield reflecting whatever dividend Intel might eventually reinstate. To run a structurally honest reinstatement scenario, override the calculator's displayed initial yield (currently approximately 0.43% — a trailing-twelve-month residual from pre-suspension distributions, not a live forward rate) with a hypothetical reinstatement yield, and override the dividend growth rate with a hypothetical post-reinstatement growth assumption.
The mechanics under any reinstatement scenario: each month, the new $500 buys additional shares at the current price (which adds to share count and therefore to future dividends if and when Intel restarts paying); each quarter under reinstatement, the dividend received from all accumulated shares is reinvested. The question that determines the income outcome is what level of dividend Intel might reinstate. Several outcomes are conceivable: a token reinstatement at the suspended-era $0.125/quarter level (producing a low-single-digit yield against the current share price), a more meaningful reinstatement closer to the pre-2023 $0.365/quarter level (producing a mid-single-digit yield), or no reinstatement at all during the 20-year window (producing zero income).
What's worth focusing on is that the projection is entirely sensitive to assumptions that have no current empirical anchor. There is no published reinstatement policy, no committed timeline, and no formula that maps foundry buildout progress to a future reinstatement event. Running the calculator on Intel today is best understood as a "what-if" exercise rather than a live income projection, and INTC should not be treated as a current-income holding regardless of the numerical output. Real outcomes depend on the IDM 2.0 execution path, the capital-allocation decisions of Intel's board, competitive position against AMD and Nvidia, tax treatment, and the broader path of US equity markets. Educational only; not a forecast.
Sources & methodology
Dividend history and price data come from Polygon.io's reference and aggregates endpoints. Forward yield is computed as the sum of the most recent four cash distributions divided by the previous-close share price. The dividend growth rate shown on this page is the compound annual growth rate of total annual distributions across the available history in this snapshot.
Last updated: 2026-05-15.
Information here is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Past dividend history does not guarantee future payments. Verify all figures with the issuer or a registered financial advisor before making investment decisions.