During the past 12 months, Kansas City Southern's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 28.80% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 5.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.30% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Kansas City Southern was 19.20% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was 3.90% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Competitive Comparison of Kansas City Southern's Forward Dividend Yield %
For the Railroads subindustry, Kansas City Southern'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.
Kansas City Southern's Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Transportation Industry
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Kansas City Southern's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Kansas City Southern's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.
Kansas City Southern Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) 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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Kansas City Southern (Kansas City Southern) Business Description
Kansas City Southern, the smallest Class I railroad, derives about half of its $2.6 billion revenue on 3,400 miles of track in the Central and Southern United States. Remaining sales are produced by operating concessions on 3,300 miles of rail in Mexico and 47 miles of track adjacent to the Panama Canal. KCS' freight includes industrial and forest products (around 21% of total revenue), chemicals and petroleum (26%), agriculture and minerals (18%), intermodal (13%), energy (9%), and autos (9%); other revenue stems from switching, demurrage, and the like.
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