For dividends in the U.S. stock market, May 2018 fell pretty much in the middle of every other May during the previous five years.
Nothing particularly exciting or worrying, just a pretty solid month for dividend-paying stocks overall.
Let's run through the numbers for May 2018's dividends...
- 3,648 U.S. firms declared their dividends during May 2018, which is up from April 2018's 3,388 and which is also up from May 2017's 3,536.
- In May 2018, 43 firms in the U.S. announced that they would pay an extra, or special, dividend to their shareholders, which is