MORN Morningstar, Inc. — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
Morningstar, Inc. operates as a leading global provider of independent investment research and insights, catering to clients across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The firm delivers a comprehensive range of services, including sophisticated web-based analytical tools, extensive investment data, and specialized research focusing on fundamental equity, manager selection, and private capital markets. Additionally, Morningstar offers credit and fund ratings, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) ratings, and index solutions. Its product suite also encompasses various investment offerings, such as managed portfolios, data on both publicly traded and private companies, fixed income securities, and real-time global market information. These services are designed to serve a diverse client base, including financial advisors, asset management companies, retirement plan administrators and sponsors, alongside individual and institutional investors. Among its key offerings are: Morningstar Data: A vast repository of investment intelligence, encompassing equity fundamentals, managed investments, ESG factors, and market data. Morningstar Direct: An advanced platform built for in-depth investment analysis. Morningstar Managed Portfolios: A model portfolio service tailored for independent financial advisors, also providing asset allocation strategies for asset managers, broker/dealers, and insurance providers. Morningstar Advisor Workstation: A web-based platform enabling research, financial planning, and the generation of proposals. Morningstar.com: The company's dedicated online portal for individual investors. Furthermore, Morningstar provides Morningstar Enterprise Components and Morningstar Credit Ratings, which offer issuance and surveillance capabilities for structured finance products, corporate credit evaluations, and operational risk assessments. It also creates Morningstar Indexes for developing specialized investment products and offers workplace solutions, including retirement accounts, fiduciary services, allocation funds, and custom models. Through its PitchBook Platform, the company provides a robust research and analysis workstation for investment and research professionals, supplemented by a mobile application, an Excel plug-in, data feeds, and various data solutions. Morningstar, Inc. was founded in 1984 and has its corporate headquarters
Dividend Snapshot
Key Metrics
Current Yield
1.05%
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$2.0000
The most recent payment scaled to a full year by how often it's paid. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00.Frequency
Q Quarterly
How often the dividend is paid: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.Rank Score
46.2
Our 0-100 house score blending yield, payout safety, growth and momentum. Higher means a stronger profile on those factors in our model — a research score, not advice or a recommendation to buy.RSI (14)
38
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$141.84 – $257.14
The lowest and highest price over the past year — shows where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio
20.55%
The share of GAAP earnings paid out as dividends. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earns. It shows n/a for BDCs, REITs and funds, which pay out of cash flow / net investment income rather than GAAP earnings, so this ratio doesn't apply.Years Paying
15
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book
7.45
Price-to-book ratio: share price divided by book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
MORN's dividend yield fell from 1.16% to 1.05% over the past ~90 days (-0.11 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and -0.11 pp from the share price ($172.65 → $191.02). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 335 daily observations over the past 16 months, MORN's current yield is higher than approximately 64% of them. Our stored price history for MORN covers the past 16 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Dec 05, 2025 | Oct 02, 2026 | Oct 02, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Dec 05, 2025 | Jul 10, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Dec 05, 2025 | Apr 02, 2026 | Apr 03, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 |
| $0.5000 Q | Regular | Dec 05, 2025 | Jan 02, 2026 | Jan 02, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 |
| $0.4550 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2024 | Oct 03, 2025 | Oct 03, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 |
| $0.4550 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2024 | Jul 11, 2025 | Jul 11, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 |
| $0.4550 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2024 | Apr 04, 2025 | Apr 04, 2025 | Apr 30, 2025 |
| $0.4550 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2024 | Jan 03, 2025 | Jan 03, 2025 | Jan 31, 2025 |
| $0.4050 Q | Regular | Dec 01, 2023 | Oct 04, 2024 | Oct 04, 2024 | Oct 31, 2024 |
| $0.4050 Q | Regular | Dec 01, 2023 | Jul 12, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 | Jul 31, 2024 |
| $0.4050 Q | Regular | Dec 01, 2023 | Apr 04, 2024 | Apr 05, 2024 | Apr 30, 2024 |
| $0.4050 Q | Regular | Dec 01, 2023 | Jan 04, 2024 | Jan 05, 2024 | Jan 31, 2024 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2022 | Oct 05, 2023 | Oct 06, 2023 | Oct 31, 2023 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2022 | Jul 06, 2023 | Jul 07, 2023 | Jul 31, 2023 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2022 | Apr 05, 2023 | Apr 07, 2023 | Apr 28, 2023 |
| $0.3750 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2022 | Jan 05, 2023 | Jan 06, 2023 | Jan 31, 2023 |
| $0.3600 Q | Regular | Dec 03, 2021 | Oct 17, 2022 | Oct 18, 2022 | Oct 31, 2022 |
| $0.3600 Q | Regular | Dec 03, 2021 | Jun 30, 2022 | Jul 01, 2022 | Jul 29, 2022 |
| $0.3600 Q | Regular | Dec 03, 2021 | Mar 31, 2022 | Apr 01, 2022 | Apr 29, 2022 |
| $0.3600 Q | Regular | Dec 03, 2021 | Jan 06, 2022 | Jan 07, 2022 | Jan 31, 2022 |
| $0.3150 Q | Regular | Dec 04, 2020 | Oct 18, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 29, 2021 |
| $0.3150 Q | Regular | Dec 04, 2020 | Jul 08, 2021 | Jul 09, 2021 | Jul 30, 2021 |
| $0.3150 Q | Regular | Dec 04, 2020 | Apr 08, 2021 | Apr 09, 2021 | Apr 30, 2021 |
| $0.3150 Q | Regular | Dec 04, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | Jan 04, 2021 | Jan 29, 2021 |
| $0.3000 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2019 | Oct 15, 2020 | Oct 16, 2020 | Oct 30, 2020 |
| $0.3000 Q | Regular | May 15, 2020 | Jul 01, 2020 | Jul 02, 2020 | Jul 31, 2020 |
| $0.3000 Q | Regular | Feb 25, 2020 | Apr 02, 2020 | Apr 03, 2020 | Apr 30, 2020 |
| $0.3000 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2019 | Jan 02, 2020 | Jan 03, 2020 | Jan 31, 2020 |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | Oct 04, 2019 | Oct 17, 2019 | Oct 18, 2019 | Oct 31, 2019 |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | May 17, 2019 | Jul 03, 2019 | Jul 05, 2019 | Jul 31, 2019 |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | Feb 26, 2019 | Apr 04, 2019 | Apr 05, 2019 | Apr 30, 2019 |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | Dec 14, 2018 | Jan 03, 2019 | Jan 04, 2019 | Jan 31, 2019 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Oct 05, 2018 | Oct 16, 2018 | Oct 17, 2018 | Oct 31, 2018 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | May 18, 2018 | Jul 05, 2018 | Jul 06, 2018 | Jul 27, 2018 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Feb 27, 2018 | Apr 05, 2018 | Apr 06, 2018 | Apr 27, 2018 |
| $0.2500 Q | Regular | Dec 08, 2017 | Jan 04, 2018 | Jan 05, 2018 | Jan 31, 2018 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | Oct 06, 2017 | Oct 17, 2017 | Oct 18, 2017 | Oct 31, 2017 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | May 15, 2017 | Jul 05, 2017 | Jul 07, 2017 | Jul 28, 2017 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | Feb 24, 2017 | Apr 05, 2017 | Apr 07, 2017 | Apr 28, 2017 |
| $0.2300 Q | Regular | Dec 09, 2016 | Jan 04, 2017 | Jan 06, 2017 | Jan 31, 2017 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Sep 30, 2016 | Oct 06, 2016 | Oct 11, 2016 | Oct 28, 2016 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | May 13, 2016 | Jul 06, 2016 | Jul 08, 2016 | Jul 29, 2016 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Feb 26, 2016 | Apr 06, 2016 | Apr 08, 2016 | Apr 29, 2016 |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | Dec 04, 2015 | Jan 06, 2016 | Jan 08, 2016 | Jan 29, 2016 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | Sep 25, 2015 | Oct 07, 2015 | Oct 09, 2015 | Oct 30, 2015 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | May 12, 2015 | Jul 08, 2015 | Jul 10, 2015 | Jul 31, 2015 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | Feb 13, 2015 | Apr 08, 2015 | Apr 10, 2015 | Apr 30, 2015 |
| $0.1900 Q | Regular | Dec 05, 2014 | Jan 07, 2015 | Jan 09, 2015 | Jan 30, 2015 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2013 | Oct 08, 2014 | Oct 10, 2014 | Oct 31, 2014 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2013 | Jul 09, 2014 | Jul 11, 2014 | Jul 31, 2014 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | Feb 14, 2014 | Apr 09, 2014 | Apr 11, 2014 | Apr 30, 2014 |
| $0.1700 Q | Regular | Dec 06, 2013 | Jan 08, 2014 | Jan 10, 2014 | Jan 31, 2014 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | Oct 04, 2013 | Oct 09, 2013 | Oct 14, 2013 | Oct 31, 2013 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | May 14, 2013 | Jul 10, 2013 | Jul 12, 2013 | Jul 31, 2013 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | Feb 15, 2013 | Apr 10, 2013 | Apr 12, 2013 | Apr 30, 2013 |
| $0.1250 Q | Regular | Dec 07, 2012 | Dec 13, 2012 | Dec 17, 2012 | Dec 28, 2012 |
| $0.1000 Q | Regular | Sep 28, 2012 | Oct 10, 2012 | Oct 12, 2012 | Oct 31, 2012 |
| $0.1000 Q | Regular | May 16, 2012 | Jul 11, 2012 | Jul 13, 2012 | Jul 31, 2012 |
| $0.1000 Q | Regular | Feb 23, 2012 | Apr 11, 2012 | Apr 13, 2012 | Apr 30, 2012 |
| $0.1000 Q | Regular | Oct 27, 2010 | Jan 11, 2012 | Jan 13, 2012 | Jan 31, 2012 |
| $0.0500 Q | Regular | Sep 23, 2011 | Oct 12, 2011 | Oct 14, 2011 | Oct 31, 2011 |
| $0.0500 Q | Regular | May 17, 2011 | Jul 13, 2011 | Jul 15, 2011 | Jul 29, 2011 |
| $0.0500 Q | Regular | Feb 18, 2011 | Apr 13, 2011 | Apr 15, 2011 | Apr 29, 2011 |
| $0.0500 I | Regular | Oct 28, 2010 | Dec 29, 2010 | Dec 31, 2010 | Jan 14, 2011 |
Peer Comparison
Selected Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSCUF | Japan Exchange Group, Inc. | 3.59% | 9.0% | 1 yr | 71 |
| JPXGY | Japan Exchange Group, Inc. | 3.28% | 6.6% | 2 yrs | 53 |
| FDS | FactSet Research Systems Inc. | 1.79% | 7.5% | 20 yrs | 50 |
| SPGI | S&P Global Inc. | 0.94% | 7.5% | 12 yrs | 48 |
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MORN dividend — frequently asked questions
Does Morningstar, Inc. pay a dividend?
Yes. Morningstar, Inc. (MORN) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $2.00 per share, a yield of approximately 1.05%.
What is Morningstar, Inc.'s dividend yield?
Morningstar, Inc.'s dividend yield is approximately 1.05%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does Morningstar, Inc. pay dividends?
Morningstar, Inc. pays dividends quarterly — 4 times per year.
When is Morningstar, Inc.'s next ex-dividend date?
The next ex-dividend date on record for Morningstar, Inc. is October 2, 2026. The associated payment is $0.5000 per share; you must own the shares before the ex-dividend date to receive it.
How long has Morningstar, Inc. paid dividends?
Morningstar, Inc. has 15 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Data updated Sep 13, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.