If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Artesian Resources Corp is 0.75, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Artesian Resources was 0.81. The lowest was 0.59. And the median was 0.64.
During the past 12 months, Artesian Resources's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.00% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.10% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 3.60% 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 Artesian Resources was 15.50% per year. The lowest was 2.60% per year. And the median was 3.55% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Artesian Resources Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Artesian Resources'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 Artesian Resources's Dividend Yield %
For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Artesian Resources'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.
Artesian Resources's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry
For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Artesian Resources's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Artesian Resources's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Artesian Resources Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Artesian Resources Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.290
2024-02-08
2024-02-09
2024-02-23
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.290
2023-11-15
2023-11-16
2023-11-24
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.284
2023-08-16
2023-08-17
2023-08-25
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.284
2023-05-18
2023-05-19
2023-05-26
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.
Artesian Resources'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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Artesian Resources (Artesian Resources) Business Description
Artesian Resources Corp operates as the holding company of eight wholly-owned subsidiaries offering water, wastewater, and other services on the Delmarva Peninsula. It distributes and sells water, including water for public and private fire protection, to residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, and utility customers in the states of Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The company is focusing on a wide spectrum of activities, which include identifying new and dependable sources of water supply; developing wells, treatment plants and delivery systems to get water to customers.
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