I'm looking for a source for dividend payout data. The yahoo historical price data does a good job of showing them but they dont show up if you choose to download to excel. So then you have to flip through a ton of pages. Dividend.com has a lot of it, but not kept very current and some symbols dont have much data. Im a programmer by trade, I want to add this info to my database, I'm able to write something to scrape it all off web screens if need be, however if I could find it somewhere in excel or flat file etc it makes things easier. Anyone know of anywhere?
Well after many hours searching web sites I figured out an easy solution I cant believe I missed. On the Yahoo historical prices, if you select the radio button 'dividends only', the excel export will then include the dividend payouts where it didn't previously.