Quarterly Dividend

Quarterly Dividend Table Builder

Extract and display quarterly Dividends Per Share for $0 covering the past 10 fiscal years by browsing Yahoo Finance in Chrome.

Multi-Ticker Support

The argument $0 may contain multiple tickers separated by commas (e.g., AAPL,MSFT,GOOG).

1. Parse $0 by splitting on commas and trimming whitespace to get a list of tickers.
2. Always use the Task tool to launch one subagent per ticker in parallel (all Task calls in a single message). Each subagent should:

• Receive the full instructions from Step 1 onward, with $0 replaced by its single ticker
• Be of type general-purpose
• Work independently to extract data and build the tables

1. If there is only one ticker, present the subagent's Table 2 (YoY growth rates) directly; skip Table 1 (raw data).
2. If there are multiple tickers, combine all results into a single summary table with fiscal years as rows and paired columns per ticker (Full Year value + YoY):

| FY | TICKER1 | YoY | TICKER2 | YoY | |----|---------|-----|---------|-----| | 2025 | $X.XX | +X.X% | $X.XX | +X.X% | | 2024 | $X.XX | -X.X% | $X.XX | +X.X% | | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | | 2016 | $X.XX | – | $X.XX | – |

Replace TICKER1, TICKER2, etc. with actual ticker symbols. Use – for the earliest year's YoY (no prior year data). Do not present separate tables per ticker.

Step 1: Navigate to Yahoo Finance Dividends Page

1. List pages and select an existing Yahoo Finance page (or any available page).
2. Navigate to https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/$0/financials/
3. Wait for the page to load.
4. Click the Dividends tab in the financials sub-navigation.

Step 2: Switch to Quarterly View

1. Take a snapshot of the page.
2. The snapshot will be very large. Save it to a file and use Grep to find the "Quarterly" tab element (search for Quarterly).
3. Click the Quarterly tab (it will be a tab element with text "Quarterly" and a uid).

Step 3: Extract Column Headers and Dividend Data

After clicking Quarterly, use evaluate_script to extract the table headers and dividend rows in one call:

() => {
  const rows = document.querySelectorAll('div.tableBody div.row');
  const result = { rows: {} };

  // Get column headers
  const headerRow = document.querySelector('div.tableHeader div.row');
  const headers = [];
  if (headerRow) {
    headerRow.querySelectorAll('div.column').forEach(col => {
      headers.push(col.textContent.trim());
    });
  }

  // Find all dividend-related rows
  rows.forEach(row => {
    const label = row.querySelector('div.column div.rowTitle');
    if (label) {
      const labelText = label.textContent.trim();
      const columns = row.querySelectorAll('div.column');
      const values = [];
      columns.forEach(col => {
        values.push(col.textContent.trim());
      });
      result.rows[labelText] = values;
    }
  });

  result.headers = headers;
  return result;
}

This returns:

• headers: Array starting with ["Breakdown", "TTM", "MM/DD/YYYY", ...] — quarter-end dates
• rows: Object with row labels as keys (e.g., "Dividends Per Share", "Dividend Payout Ratio", etc.) and arrays of column values

Step 4: Parse and Organize Data

1. Skip the first header ("Breakdown") and first value (the row label).
2. Skip the TTM column (second header / second value) if present.
3. Use the "Dividends Per Share" row as the primary data. If not available, look for a similarly named row (e.g., "Dividend Per Share").
4. Pair each remaining header (date string like "12/31/2024") with its corresponding dividend value.
5. Parse each date to extract the year and quarter:

• Month 3 (3/31) → Q1
• Month 6 (6/30) → Q2
• Month 9 (9/30) → Q3
• Month 12 (12/31) → Q4
• Any non-standard month-end dates (e.g., 10/31) should be flagged as anomalies and excluded from the main table (note them separately).

1. Filter to the past 10 full calendar years only. If the current year is incomplete (fewer than 4 quarters reported), still include it and mark missing quarters as "N/A".
2. Dividend values of "--" should be treated as missing/N/A (the company may not have paid a dividend that quarter).
3. Dividend values are per-share amounts — display them as-is with appropriate decimal places. Use the currency symbol matching the stock's trading currency (e.g., $ for USD, ¥ for JPY, £ for GBP).

Step 5: Build Table 1 — Quarterly Dividends Per Share

Present a markdown table with this format:

| Year | Q1 (Mar) | Q2 (Jun) | Q3 (Sep) | Q4 (Dec) | **Full Year** |
|------|----------|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
| 2025 | $X.XX    | $X.XX    | $X.XX    | $X.XX    | **$X.XX**     |
| ...  | ...      | ...      | ...      | ...      | ...           |

• Full Year = sum of Q1 + Q2 + Q3 + Q4 (bold the column header and values).
• Show the appropriate currency symbol on all values.
• Bold the year column values.
• Order rows from most recent year at top to oldest at bottom.
• Show "N/A" for quarters with no dividend or missing data.

Step 6: Build Table 2 — YoY Growth per Quarter

Calculate YoY growth as: (Current Quarter DPS - Same Quarter Prior Year DPS) / |Same Quarter Prior Year DPS| * 100

Use the absolute value of the prior year's DPS in the denominator to handle edge cases.

Present a markdown table:

| Year | Q1 (Mar) | Q2 (Jun) | Q3 (Sep) | Q4 (Dec) | **Full Year** |
|------|----------|----------|----------|----------|---------------|
| 2025 | +X.X%    | -X.X%    | +X.X%    | +X.X%    | **+X.X%**     |
| ...  | ...      | ...      | ...      | ...      | ...           |

• Full Year growth = (Current FY sum - Prior FY sum) / |Prior FY sum| * 100.
• Prefix positive values with +, negative values naturally show -.
• The earliest year in the table will have no prior year to compare, so exclude it from this table (show 9 rows of growth for 10 years of data).
• If either the current or prior quarter dividend is missing/zero, show "N/A" for that growth cell.

Step 7: Add Notes

Below the tables, include a Notes section mentioning:

• That all dividend values are per-share amounts as reported per Yahoo Finance.
• The company's fiscal year-end date (e.g., "Fiscal year ends December 31" or "Fiscal year ends March 31").
• Any anomalous dates found (e.g., 10/31 quarter-ends) and that they were excluded.
• Whether the company has a consistent dividend history or if there are gaps (quarters with no dividend).
• Any notable spikes or drops and likely causes if obvious (e.g., special dividends, dividend initiation, dividend cuts, payout ratio changes).
• If Dividend Payout Ratio data is available in the extracted rows, mention the most recent payout ratio.
• The data source: Yahoo Finance $0 Financials (Dividends tab, Quarterly, Dividends Per Share).

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: kezsmeister
• Source: kezsmeister/claude-finance-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.