---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-333157"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NOV"
cik: "0001021860"
company_name: "NOV Inc."
filed_at: "2021-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T06:48:44.885331+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NOV reinstates quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share; payable Dec 17, 2021

## Summary
- Board reinstates regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share of common stock.
- Dividend payable on December 17, 2021 to stockholders of record as of December 3, 2021.
- CEO Clay Williams cites 'growing confidence in the emerging recovery' and commitment to returning excess capital.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-333157
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NOV
- cik: 0001021860
- company_name: NOV Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1021860/000119312521333157/0001193125-21-333157-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1021860/000119312521333157/d254918d8k.htm

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