Does Restaurant Brands International (QSR) Pay a Dividend? (2026)

Yes. Restaurant Brands International pays a dividend yielding roughly 3.22% as of August 2026, paid quarterly, four times a year. The most recent payment on record was $0.65 per share with an ex-dividend date of June 23, 2026. That works out to a forward annual rate of about $2.60 per share. Yields move with the share price, so verify the current figure with your broker or QSR's investor relations page before relying on it.

About 3.22% as of August 2026. On a $10,000 position that is roughly $322 of dividend income a year before tax. For context, the S&P 500 yields around 1.2%, so QSR yields meaningfully more than the broad market. A higher yield is not automatically better: it can reflect a falling share price as easily as a generous payout, so it is worth checking why the number is what it is.

Restaurant Brands International pays quarterly, four times a year. The most recent payment on record had an ex-dividend date of June 23, 2026. To receive a given payment you have to own the shares before the ex-dividend date, not on the pay date. Confirm upcoming dates on QSR's investor relations page, because boards can change both the amount and the timing.

The ex-dividend date recorded in our August 2026 data pull is September 18, 2026. The ex-dividend date is the cutoff: buy on or after it and the seller keeps that payment, not you. Buying just before the ex-date to capture the dividend does not create free money, because the share price typically drops by roughly the dividend amount when the stock goes ex. Check QSR's investor relations page for the next confirmed date.

$0.65 per share in the most recent payment (ex-date June 23, 2026), which annualizes to about $2.60 per share. The equivalent payment a year earlier was $0.62. That is a change of 4.8% year over year.

Yes. The latest payment of $0.65 per share is above the $0.62 paid in the same slot a year earlier, an increase of about 4.8%. One raise is not a policy, though: check the multi-year record on QSR's investor relations page, since a long streak of increases is what dividend-growth investors actually look for.

Restaurant Brands International paid out about 64% of its earnings as dividends, so the dividend takes a large share of earnings. It is covered, but future increases depend more on earnings growth than on stretching the payout further, and a bad year leaves less cushion. Nobody can guarantee a dividend: boards cut them, and a high yield is sometimes the market pricing in exactly that. Walnut is not an investment adviser and this is not a recommendation.

At a yield of about 3.22%, roughly $322 a year before tax, spread across 4 payments. That is a snapshot, not a promise: the amount changes when the company changes its payout, and your yield on cost is fixed at the price you paid, not at today's price.

Dividends from US common stock are usually qualified, meaning they are taxed at the lower long-term capital-gains rates, provided you held the shares for more than 60 days in the 121-day window around the ex-dividend date. Distributions from REITs, BDCs, and some pass-through structures are generally taxed as ordinary income instead. In an IRA or Roth the question does not arise. See our guide to how dividends are taxed. This is not tax advice.

Most brokers offer automatic reinvestment (a DRIP) that puts each QSR payment straight back into more shares, often fractional ones. Reinvesting compounds the position and is the standard choice when you do not need the cash yet. Taking the cash makes sense when you are spending the income or want to direct it elsewhere. Either way the dividend is taxable in a taxable account in the year it is paid, even if you never see the money.

Both. The board declared a quarterly dividend of ~$0.65 per common share for the third quarter of 2026, payable October 2, 2026 to holders of record September 18, 2026, and RBI LP makes an identical ~$0.65 distribution per exchangeable unit on the same dates. Annualised that is ~$2.60, a yield near ~3.2% at ~$80.86, and because it is paid across the full ~454.5 million fully-exchanged base it costs roughly ~$1.18 billion a year against ~$1.63 billion of trailing free cash flow. Separately, a ~$1.0 billion buyback authorisation runs from September 15, 2025 through September 30, 2027; RBI repurchased ~1,821,167 shares for ~$137 million during the second quarter and another ~463,385 shares for ~$35 million in July, leaving ~$794 million available at July 31, 2026. Total capital returned in the quarter was ~$435 million.