Investors new to stocks often ask what Is the best way to find out how much dividend a stock pays per year.  The most accurate answer is to check the past history of dividends declared by the stock at www.sgx.com Navigate to Company Disclosure > Corporate Action. Say you are looking at KREIT’s past dividends declared. You will typically get a few kind of corporate actions under this section. Some are dividend declaration (mark by the red rectangles) and some are rights issues. To identify the full dividend declared in 2011, add up the dividends declared in the Particulars column listed with Expiry date in 2011. In this example, 0.0208 + 0.0164 + 0.0155 + 0.0183 = 0.071. So this is the total amount that was paid out in 2011. The Expiry Date correspond to the “Ex Div” or Ex Dividend you ......