As of today (2024-05-22), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Dis-Chem Pharmacies is 1.24%.
Warning Sign:
Dis-Chem Pharmacies Ltd stock dividend yield is close to 2-year low.
The historical rank and industry rank for Dis-Chem Pharmacies's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:
JSE:DCP'
s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.7 Med: 1.42 Max: 2.15
Current: 1.24
During the past 10 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Dis-Chem Pharmacies was 2.15%. The lowest was 0.70%. And the median was 1.42%.
JSE:DCP's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than 68.44% of 263
companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 1.96
vs JSE:DCP: 1.24
During the past 12 months, Dis-Chem Pharmacies's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 17.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 22.50% per year.
During the past 10 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Dis-Chem Pharmacies was 22.50% per year. The lowest was 14.90% per year. And the median was 18.70% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Dis-Chem Pharmacies Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Dis-Chem Pharmacies'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 Dis-Chem Pharmacies's Dividend Yield %
For the Pharmaceutical Retailers subindustry, Dis-Chem Pharmacies'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.
Dis-Chem Pharmacies's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry
For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Dis-Chem Pharmacies's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Dis-Chem Pharmacies's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Dis-Chem Pharmacies Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Dis-Chem Pharmacies Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
ZAR 0.232435
2023-11-22
2023-11-24
2023-11-27
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
ZAR:ZAR 1.000000
ZAR 0.184531
2023-06-07
2023-06-09
2023-06-12
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
ZAR:ZAR 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.
Dis-Chem Pharmacies'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.
Dis-Chem Pharmacies Dividend Yield % Related Terms
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Dis-Chem Pharmacies (JSE:DCP) Business Description
Dis-Chem Pharmacies Ltd is a pharmaceutical company based in South Africa. Its product portfolio includes personal care products, beauty products, healthcare and nutrition products, and dispensary and baby care products. The operating segments of the group are Retail and Wholesale. It derives maximum revenue from the Retail segment, which includes company stores, retailers of pharmaceutical and a variety of health and beauty products, as well as pharma-logistic services and oncology and retailers of pharmaceutical products. The Wholesale segment consists of the CJ wholesale and company distribution businesses, wholesalers of pharmaceuticals, and a variety of health and beauty products. Geographically, the group carries its business operations principally in South Africa.
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