As of today (2024-04-19), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of American Tower is 3.75%.
As of today (2024-04-19), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of American Tower is 3.77%.
AMT's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than 88.48% of 833
companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 7.48
vs AMT: 3.75
American Tower's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.70.
During the past 12 months, American Tower's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 10.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.50% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 15.50% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 19.50% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of American Tower was 26.20% per year. The lowest was 12.50% per year. And the median was 20.30% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
Competitive Comparison
For the REIT - Specialty subindustry, American Tower's Forward Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Forward 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.
American Tower Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, American Tower's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where American Tower's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.
American Tower Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
American Tower Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 1.620
2024-04-11
2024-04-12
2024-04-26
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.700
2023-12-27
2023-12-28
2024-02-01
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.620
2023-10-10
2023-10-11
2023-10-27
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.570
2023-06-15
2023-06-16
2023-07-10
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 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.
American Tower's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
6.48
/
171.30
=
3.78 %
Current Share Price is $171.30.
American Tower's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $1.62 * 4 = $6.48.
American Tower's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
6.51
/
171.30
=
3.80 %
Current Share Price is $171.30.
American Tower's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $6.51.
* 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.
American Tower (NYSE:AMT) 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.
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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American Tower (American Tower) Business Description
American Tower owns and operates more than 220,000 cell towers throughout the U.S., Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. It also owns and/or operates 28 data centers in 10 U.S. markets after acquiring CoreSite. On its towers, the company has a very concentrated customer base, with most revenue in each market being generated by just the top few mobile carriers. The company operates more than 40,000 towers in the U.S., which accounted for roughly half of the company's total revenue in 2022. Outside the U.S., American Tower operates over 75,000 towers in India, almost 50,000 towers in Latin America (dominated by Brazil), 30,000 towers in Europe, and nearly 25,000 towers in Africa. American Tower operates as an REIT.
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