During the past 12 months, Sao Martinho's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 9.50% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 19.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 38.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 34.60% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Sao Martinho was 65.60% per year. The lowest was 10.50% per year. And the median was 24.45% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Sao Martinho Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Sao Martinho'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 Sao Martinho's Dividend Yield %
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Sao Martinho'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.
Sao Martinho's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Sao Martinho's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sao Martinho's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Sao Martinho Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Sao Martinho Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
BRL 0.793937
2023-07-31
2023-07-28
2023-08-15
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
BRL:BRL 1.000000
BRL 0.447492
2023-06-23
2023-06-22
2023-07-04
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
BRL:BRL 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.
Sao Martinho's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
1.241429
/
27.39
=
4.53 %
Current Share Price is R$27.39. Sao Martinho's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is R$1.241429.
Sao Martinho's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
1.587874
/
27.39
=
5.80 %
Current Share Price is R$27.39. Sao Martinho's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as R$0.793937 * 2 = R$1.587874.
* 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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Sao Martinho SA operates the following segments: sugar, ethanol, electricity, real estate ventures, Yeast, and other products. Sales of sugar and ethanol, both of which the company produces with sugar cane, comprise the vast majority of the company's revenue. Sao Martinho produces sugar and ethanol in its four Brazilian mills. The company derives its sugar cane mostly from its own plantations, agricultural partnerships, shareholders, and related companies. Sao Martinho exports most of its sugar, and it sells most of its ethanol domestically.
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