Staples (FRA:STP) Dividend Yield % : 3.95% (As of Apr. 27, 2024)

Staples Dividend Yield % Chart

Staples Annual Data
	Trend	Jan08	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11	Jan12	Jan13	Jan14	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17
Dividend Yield %		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					3.41	3.65	2.46	4.17	5.22

Staples Quarterly Data
	Oct12	Jan13	Apr13	Jul13	Oct13	Jan14	Apr14	Jul14	Oct14	Jan15	Apr15	Jul15	Oct15	Jan16	Apr16	Jul16	Oct16	Jan17	Apr17	Jul17
Dividend Yield %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															3.94	6.49	5.22	4.96	3.92

Competitive Comparison of Staples's Dividend Yield %

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Staples's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Staples's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Staples's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Staples's Dividend Yield % falls into.

Staples Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Staples  (FRA:STP) Dividend Yield % Explanation

Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.

Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.

In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.

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