If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of APAC Opto Electronics Inc is 1.02, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of APAC Opto Electronics was 2.43. The lowest was 0.32. And the median was 0.57.
During the past 12 months, APAC Opto Electronics's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 66.70% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 39.70% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 28.50% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 3.20% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of APAC Opto Electronics was 39.70% per year. The lowest was -41.50% per year. And the median was 6.20% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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APAC Opto Electronics Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for APAC Opto Electronics'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 APAC Opto Electronics's Dividend Yield %
For the Communication Equipment subindustry, APAC Opto Electronics'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.
APAC Opto Electronics's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, APAC Opto Electronics's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where APAC Opto Electronics's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
APAC Opto Electronics Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
TWD 3.000000
2023-08-25
2023-08-28
2023-09-22
Cash Dividend
annually
TWD:TWD 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.
APAC Opto Electronics'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.
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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APAC Opto Electronics (ROCO:4908) Business Description
APAC Opto Electronics Inc is a manufacturer of high-performance fiber optical transmission components for Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), Storage Networks (SANs), Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), and Access Networks (ANs) in Taiwan. The products of the company include optical extender modules, optical transceiver modules, and copper transceiver modules. The company is engaged in the manufacture of wired and wireless communication equipment and electronic components, and the wholesale and retail of telecommunications equipment and electronic materials.
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