SHYF - Dividends By The Numbers In August 2020
The U.S. stock market saw continuing improvements for dividend paying firms in August 2020. The number of publicly-traded companies either cutting or suspending dividends declined from July 2020's much-improved levels. Meanwhile, the number of firms increasing their dividends increased over the previous month's levels, but remains at levels last seen during the so-called "Great Recession."
The following chart puts August 2020's dividend counts for increasing and decreasing dividends into historical context, with data extending back to January 2004.
Here is the summary of the U.S. stock market's dividend metadata for the month of August 2020: