If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Scicom MSC Bhd is 0.98, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Scicom MSC Bhd was 1.29. The lowest was 0.69. And the median was 0.76.
During the past 12 months, Scicom MSC Bhd's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 6.70% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 17.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -2.60% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.20% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Scicom MSC Bhd was 50.50% per year. The lowest was -17.80% per year. And the median was 9.45% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Scicom MSC Bhd Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Scicom MSC Bhd'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 Scicom MSC Bhd's Dividend Yield %
For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Scicom MSC Bhd'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.
Scicom MSC Bhd's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Scicom MSC Bhd's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Scicom MSC Bhd's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Scicom MSC Bhd Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Scicom MSC Bhd Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
MYR 0.020000
2024-03-11
2024-03-12
2024-03-25
Cash Dividend
quarterly
MYR:MYR 1.000000
MYR 0.020000
2023-12-14
2023-12-15
2023-12-28
Cash Dividend
quarterly
MYR:MYR 1.000000
MYR 0.020000
2023-09-11
2023-09-12
2023-09-22
Cash Dividend
quarterly
MYR:MYR 1.000000
MYR 0.020000
2023-06-13
2023-06-14
2023-06-28
Cash Dividend
quarterly
MYR:MYR 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.
Scicom MSC Bhd's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Scicom MSC Bhd's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.08
/
1.10
=
7.27 %
Current Share Price is RM1.10. Scicom MSC Bhd's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as RM0.02 * 4 = RM0.08.
* 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.
Scicom MSC Bhd (XKLS:0099) 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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Scicom MSC Bhd is an investment holding company. The company is engaged in the provision of customer contact center services within the business process outsourcing space. The company operates through two segments namely Business Process Outsourcing services which generates maximum revenue for the company and Education Solutions. Its Outsourcing services segment comprises BPO services which offer multi-lingual, multi-channel customer care, technical support help desks, consultative sales, and associated fulfillment. The company's Education segment includes educational and industrial training services focused on customer care in the service industry. It provides services to clients geographically across Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and China.
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