As of today (2024-04-24), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of COPT Defense Properties is 4.99%.
Good Sign:
COPT Defense Properties stock dividend yield is close to 3-year high.
The historical rank and industry rank for COPT Defense Properties's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:
CDP'
s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.1 Med: 4.1 Max: 6.67
Current: 4.99
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of COPT Defense Properties was 6.67%. The lowest was 3.10%. And the median was 4.10%.
CDP's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than 72.04% of 837
companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 7.11
vs CDP: 4.99
COPT Defense Properties's Dividend Payout Ratio for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.96.
Warning Sign:
If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of COPT Defense Properties is 1.70, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of COPT Defense Properties was 6.18. The lowest was 1.00. And the median was 1.38.
COPT Defense Properties's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.29.
During the past 12 months, COPT Defense Properties's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 3.60% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 1.20% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 0.50% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 0.20% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of COPT Defense Properties was 16.00% per year. The lowest was -17.80% per year. And the median was 6.10% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
COPT Defense Properties Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for COPT Defense Properties'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 COPT Defense Properties's Dividend Yield %
For the REIT - Office subindustry, COPT Defense Properties'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.
COPT Defense Properties's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the REITs Industry
For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, COPT Defense Properties's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where COPT Defense Properties's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
COPT Defense Properties Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.295
2024-03-27
2024-03-29
2024-04-17
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.285
2023-12-28
2023-12-29
2024-01-18
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.285
2023-09-28
2023-09-29
2023-10-16
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.285
2023-06-29
2023-06-30
2023-07-17
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.
COPT Defense Properties's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
1.15
/
22.95
=
5.01 %
Current Share Price is $22.95.
COPT Defense Properties's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $1.15.
COPT Defense Properties's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
1.18
/
22.95
=
5.14 %
Current Share Price is $22.95.
COPT Defense Properties's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.295 * 4 = $1.18.
* 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.
COPT Defense Properties Dividend Yield % Related Terms
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COPT Defense Properties (COPT Defense Properties) Business Description
COPT Defense Properties is a real estate investment trust that acquires, manages, and leases office and data center properties throughout the U.S. The majority of the company's real estate portfolio is composed of office buildings in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor and Northern Virginia area. COPT derives nearly all of its income in the form of rental revenue from tenants. Most of the company's revenue comes from the leasing of properties to U.S. Government agencies and its contractors in the national security, defense, and IT sectors, such as Northrop Grumman and Boeing. Regional offices in urban submarkets make also make up a sizable percentage of COPT's total square footage.
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