AMT Dividend Calculator

American Tower pays $1.79 a share each quarter in 2026, up from $1.70 through 2025. The board declared the first $1.79 payment on March 5, 2026, and it was paid on April 28. At that rate the year adds up to $7.16 a share.

Three 2026 payments have gone ex so far, worth $5.37 per share. Its second-quarter report said the payout was 5.3% higher than a year before.

In 2014 American Tower paid $1.40 a share. By 2025 it paid $6.80, which works out to about 15.5% more each year. The early years grew the fastest. 2015 rose 29.3%, and each year from 2016 to 2020 added close to a fifth.

Growth then cooled. The yearly total rose 12.5% in 2022 and 10.1% in 2023. It barely moved in 2024, up just 0.5%, and climbed 4.9% in 2025.

The quarter-by-quarter amounts explain the odd year. In December 2023 the board declared $1.70 a share, paid on February 1, 2024. The four 2024 payments that followed were $1.62 each.

So the rate stepped back to $1.62 for a year before it returned to $1.70 in 2025. Because the table groups payments by ex-date, that $1.70 counts in 2023 even though the cash arrived in 2024.

This page cannot predict raises. It can show what the company earns in cash. REITs report adjusted funds from operations, or AFFO. American Tower’s AFFO was $10.76 a share in 2025, and the $6.80 it paid was about 63% of that.

In July 2026 it raised its 2026 forecast for the second time, to $11.00 to $11.17 a share. The $7.16 rate is about 65% of the midpoint. Second-quarter AFFO was $2.71 a share, up 4.2%. The CEO cited record leasing at its CoreSite data centers. He said AFFO per share grew at a mid-single-digit pace once a one-time loss of DISH business is left out.

American Tower owns cell towers. It rents space on them to phone carriers. It counted over 148,000 sites in July 2026, plus a network of U.S. data centers. Second-quarter revenue rose 4.7% to $2.75 billion.

It has sold some units abroad. India went in September 2024 and the Philippines on June 15, 2026. It also buys back stock. In late 2025 it bought about 2 million shares for about $365 million. About $1.6 billion was left in its buyback plan.

Over the 12 months to Oct 13, 2026, American Tower paid $7.07 a share. With the stock near $180.36, the trailing yield was about 3.92%. At the full $7.16 rate it is 3.97%. Prologis, a big REIT that owns warehouses, yielded about 3.23%.

The 2026 ex-dates were April 14, June 12 and September 30, with cash paid on April 28, July 13 and October 20. The wait between the two dates ran from two weeks to about a month.

The next distribution had not been declared by October 16, 2026. Last year’s fourth payment went ex on December 29.

As of Oct 13, 2026, AMT yields about 3.92%, having distributed $7.07 per share over the trailing twelve months.

Its most recent payment was $1.79 per share, which went ex-dividend on Sep 30, 2026 and paid on Oct 20, 2026.

Over the payments shown, AMT has raised its quarterly dividend from $1.70 to $1.79 per share — an increase of about 5%.

American Tower is a REIT that owns and operates communications real estate — primarily wireless cell towers and some data centers — leasing space to carriers under long-term contracts with annual rent escalators. It pays a quarterly, steadily growing dividend.

AMT is a reit from American Tower that distributes quarterly. Because dividend investing is about both income and the growth of that income, the calculator above lets you model three things independently for AMT: the starting yield, how fast the dividend grows each year, and how fast the share price appreciates. That separation matters most for high-yield versus dividend-growth choices, where a lower starting yield that grows quickly can overtake a higher static yield over time.