Individends separates source-model values, derived presentation scores, evidence confidence and data-quality eligibility. They answer different questions and must never be treated as interchangeable.
DSS and the Dividend Score use a 0–10 scale. DGPS remains a separate raw 0–10 ranking signal with empirically selected direction boundaries at 1.1 and 2.1. The public Dividend Safety number is DSS multiplied by ten.
DSS is the source model’s estimate of the company’s capacity to sustain its current dividend. Individends does not recalculate or overwrite the shared source value. The site reads it, dates it and stores selected product-side snapshots for change monitoring.
DGPS ranks evidence for the direction of the next established dividend. Below 1.1 is the decrease-likely band, 1.1 through 2.1 is stable, and above 2.1 is increase likely. These bands were selected from historical outcome testing; they are not probabilities or promises.
The Dividend Score ranks the income proposition, not safety alone. It combines current TTM yield, DSS and DGPS using a weighted geometric mean: 55% yield, 25% DSS and 20% DGPS. Yield credit rises to 12% and then stops, preventing an extreme headline yield from increasing the score indefinitely.
Recovery days is the source model’s estimate of how long the market price took, or may take, to recover the cash value removed by a dividend event. It is shown with its source date and never treated as a guaranteed future timetable.
Confidence is not the probability that a dividend will be paid. It is a quality score for the evidence currently available on the page.
A missing or implausible yield caps confidence at 25%. Missing events and aging source data reduce the score even when every database field is non-null.
A listing is excluded from search, rankings and indexing when it fails a critical trust check. Coverage is deliberately sacrificed before data quality.
The headline current yield uses the latest dividendYielPercentageTTM value stored in the source financial_ratiosTTM table. It is already a percentage. The this-year and last-year dividend amounts and year-specific yields come from the latest dividend_data record; those two stored yield ratios are multiplied by 100 for display. The website does not independently reconstruct any of these yields from payments and price.
Corporate actions, special dividends, currency units, stale prices and incomplete event records can distort dividend statistics. Individends suppresses suspicious values, but no automated policy can remove every ambiguity. “Review required” means the page should not be used as decision evidence until refreshed or reconciled.
Trust v1 thresholds and confidence weights are explicit operational controls, not statistically calibrated predictions. They will be versioned and recalibrated only against documented historical error and outcome data.
Individends provides research and decision support, not personalized investment advice. Scores describe current evidence under a documented method; they do not promise future returns or payments.