If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of E Media Holdings Ltd is 0.74, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of E Media Holdings was 0.80. The lowest was 0.52. And the median was 0.56.
During the past 12 months, E Media Holdings's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -12.80% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 36.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of E Media Holdings was 36.70% per year. The lowest was -9.80% per year. And the median was 9.75% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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E Media Holdings Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for E Media Holdings's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of E Media Holdings's Dividend Yield %
For the Entertainment subindustry, E Media Holdings'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.
E Media Holdings's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, E Media Holdings's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where E Media Holdings's Dividend Yield % falls into.
E Media Holdings Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
E Media Holdings Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
ZAR 0.180000
2023-12-12
2023-12-14
2023-12-18
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
ZAR:ZAR 1.000000
ZAR 0.200000
2023-06-13
2023-06-15
2023-06-19
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
ZAR:ZAR 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
E Media Holdings's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
E Media Holdings (JSE:EMH) 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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E Media Holdings Ltd is a South Africa-based investment holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it is primarily engaged in the media and entertainment business. The company product portfolio includes products and services like is involved in E.TV a free-to-air commercial television channel; eNCA, a 24-hour news channel; OpenView HD and YFM, a radio station that targets the youth market. In addition, the company also provides property and facilities services, including broadcast and television studios, post-production facilities, equipment rental, and sales; as well as holds investments in the television broadcasting and content creation sectors. The company's majority of its revenue is earned from the South African market.
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