Sources of annual dividend increase

Is the increase in annual dividends per share due to higher regular dividends, more dividend payments, or special dividends?

Dividends and shareholder returns DIV-004 Waterfall Sample

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0700.HK Tencent Holdings | Hang Seng Index | 2025-10-16 – 2026-10-16 | HKD

Highest item: Regular dividend increase: 1.02 HKD
Lowest item: Change in special dividends: -3.3 HKD
Average: -0.36 HKD
Number of items: 6 items

Annual dividend increase waterfall

Annual DPS increase (dividend currency / share) (Waterfall)

Regular and special dividend contributions

Regular dividend share of the increase (%) (Bar)

Unclassified difference and event matching

Annual DPS increase (dividend currency / share) and Regular dividend share of the increase (%) (Table)

Sample data rows

Sources of annual dividend change	Annual DPS increase (dividend currency / share)	Regular dividend share of the increase (%)	Data date (sample)
Prior-year DPS	-0.06	48.1	2026-10-16
Regular dividend increase	1.02	34	2026-10-16
Difference in number of payments	0.81	43.2	2026-10-16
Change in special dividends	-3.3	9.5	2026-10-16
Unclassified difference	-0.53	15.8	2026-10-16
Current-year DPS	-0.08	31.7	2026-10-16
Total	-2.14	182.3	2026-10-16

Source and limits

Research question

Is the increase in annual dividends per share due to higher regular dividends, more dividend payments, or special dividends?

Axes and units

Horizontal axis: Sources of annual dividend change
Vertical axis: Dividend per share (original currency)
Metric: Annual DPS increase (dividend currency / share)
Comparison metric: Regular dividend share of the increase (%)

Calculation method

For two complete, comparable ex-dividend years, regular dividends are matched on the same stock-split basis and confirmed period, and the change is decomposed into amount changes for like-for-like periods, the difference in confirmed periods, and the special dividend difference. The unclassified difference is the total annual DPS difference minus the identified contributions.

Limitations

An increase or decrease in the number of dividend payments cannot be inferred from unknown periods or missing events. Years are based on ex-dividend dates, not the payment year in the company's cash flow statement. All preview values are synthetic samples.

The plotted values are generated sample data and do not result from this calculation.

Data API requirements

DIV
SPLIT

Data class: Derived
Complexity: High
Update cadence: Announced events updated daily. Recalculated when a new dividend payment is added.
Needs user-supplied input: No
Needs extra data plan: No

API names are the data groups the original specification requires, listed as methodology metadata only. This page makes no live data connection and is not connected to the live market data shown elsewhere on the site.

Source documentation

eodhd.com/financial-apis/api-splits-dividends

Design priority

Catalogue priority 302 of 1,000 (stage P2), a planning estimate from the original workbook.