If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of DSW Capital PLC is 1.27, which seems too high.
During the past 5 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of DSW Capital was 1.27. The lowest was 1.20. And the median was 1.20.
During the past 12 months, DSW Capital's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -9.50% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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DSW Capital Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for DSW Capital'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 DSW Capital's Dividend Yield %
For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, DSW Capital'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.
DSW Capital's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, DSW Capital's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where DSW Capital's Dividend Yield % falls into.
DSW Capital Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
DSW Capital Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
GBP 0.012500
2023-12-14
2023-12-15
2024-01-12
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
GBP:GBP 1.000000
GBP 0.020000
2023-09-14
2023-09-15
2023-09-29
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
GBP:GBP 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.
DSW Capital's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.0325
/
0.50
=
6.50 %
Current Share Price is £0.50. DSW Capital's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is £0.0325.
DSW Capital's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.025
/
0.50
=
5.00 %
Current Share Price is £0.50. DSW Capital's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as £0.0125 * 2 = £0.025.
* 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.
DSW Capital (LSE:DSW) 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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DSW Capital PLC is a challenger mid-market professional services business. It operates a licensing model and licenses the DSW and associated brand names in return for a royalty based on a percentage of fee income. The DSW network currently employs 82 fee earners across England and Scotland. It recruits skilled professionals, in focused niches of expertise to run its own business and provide services to mid-market corporates, owner-managers, private equity firms, and high net-worth individuals.
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