AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF

Range, yield & payout streak

Based on Yahoo annual dividend totals through 2025 (excludes incomplete 2026).

BDC / cash pass-through vs ordinary dividend

ETF / fund — distributions depend on the underlying basket and fund policy. Yield is not a corporate “safety” rating.

Remember: high yield ≠ safer. Pass-through vehicles (BDC / REIT) can show high distributions by design while carrying credit, rate, or occupancy risk.

Dividend safety rating

High yield ≠ safer — elevated yield often prices higher risk or return-of-capital. Payout streak (non-decreasing annual totals): ~5 years.

Dividend history trend (recent payments)

Sourced from Yahoo via yfinance. Gaps or missing rows = data unavailable, not zeroes we invented.

Pass-through / BDC mechanics (deeper)

ETF / fund — distributions depend on the underlying basket and fund policy. Yield is not a corporate “safety” rating.

Advanced frame: for ordinary payers, focus on earnings/FCF coverage and balance-sheet flexibility. For REITs, focus on AFFO/FFO trends, occupancy, and debt ladders. For BDCs, focus on NII vs distribution, non-accruals, leverage vs statutory limits, and NAV drift. This page still is not a Crystal Signals entry card — no Counsel fire / manage stamp here.

Full company blurb

The index measures the performance of the total U.S. investment-grade bond market. The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the underlying index and TBAs that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the component securities of the underlying index, and the fund will invest at least 90% of its assets in fixed income securities of the types included in the underlying index that the advisor believes will help the fund track the underlying index.