April 2019 was not a good month for investors looking for sources of dividend income, where the U.S. stock market saw both fewer increases and more decreases than what was recorded for the same month a year earlier.
The following chart shows the monthly increases and decreases for dividends reported by Standard and Poor's for each month from January 2004 through April 2019.
Let's run through the metadata for U.S. dividend payers in April 2019:
- 3,107 U.S. firms declared dividends in April 2019, a decrease of 1,207 from the number recorded one month earlier. That