Delta Natural Gas Co (Delta Natural Gas Co) Forward Dividend Yield % : 2.44% (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

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What is Delta Natural Gas Co Forward Dividend Yield %?

As of today (2024-04-25), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of Delta Natural Gas Co is 2.44%.

As of today (2024-04-25), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Delta Natural Gas Co is 2.64%.

DGAS's Forward Dividend Yield % is not ranked
in the Utilities - Regulated industry.
Industry Median: 4.18 vs DGAS: 2.44

Delta Natural Gas Co's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Jun. 2017 was $0.42.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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Competitive Comparison of Delta Natural Gas Co's Forward Dividend Yield %

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Delta Natural Gas Co's Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

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Delta Natural Gas Co Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation

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

Delta Natural Gas Co (NAS:DGAS) Forward 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.

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Delta Natural Gas Co (Delta Natural Gas Co) Business Description

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Delta Natural Gas Co Inc was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on October 7, 1949. The Company distributes or transports natural gas. Its distribution and transmission systems are located in central and southeastern Kentucky, and it owns and operates an underground natural gas storage field in southeastern Kentucky. The Company transport natural gas to industrial customers who purchase their natural gas in the open market. It also transports natural gas on behalf of local producers and customers not on its distribution system and extract liquids from natural gas in its storage field and on its pipeline systems that are sold at market prices. The Company operates through two segments, a regulated segment and a non-regulated segment. Through regulated segment, the company distributes natural gas to their retail customers in 23 predominantly rural counties. In addition, the regulated segment transports natural gas to large-volume customers on its system who purchase their natural gas in the open market. The regulated segment also transports natural gas on behalf of local producers and other customers not on its distribution system. The non-regulated segment includes three wholly-owned subsidiaries. Two of these subsidiaries, Delta Resources and Delgasco, purchase natural gas in the open market, including natural gas from Kentucky producers. The Company resells this natural gas to industrial customers on its distribution system and to others not on its system. The competes with alternate sources of energy for its regulated distribution customers. These alternate sources include electricity, geo-thermal, coal, oil, propane, wood and solar.

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