If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc is 1.19, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Mid-America Apartment Communities was 1.87. The lowest was 1.17. And the median was 1.65.
During the past 12 months, Mid-America Apartment Communities's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 13.70% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 11.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 8.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 6.30% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Mid-America Apartment Communities was 20.90% per year. The lowest was 0.10% per year. And the median was 3.40% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Mid-America Apartment Communities Dividend Yield % Historical Data
* 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 Mid-America Apartment Communities's Dividend Yield %
For the REIT - Residential subindustry, Mid-America Apartment Communities'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.
Mid-America Apartment Communities's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the REITs Industry
For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Mid-America Apartment Communities's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Mid-America Apartment Communities's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Mid-America Apartment Communities Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 1.470000
2024-04-12
2024-04-15
2024-04-30
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.920000
USD 1.470000
2024-01-11
2024-01-12
2024-01-31
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.918000
USD 1.400000
2023-10-12
2023-10-13
2023-10-31
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.947000
USD 1.400000
2023-07-13
2023-07-14
2023-07-31
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.904000
* 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.
* 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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Mid-America Apartment Communities (STU:M2K) Business Description
Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc, or MAA, is a real estate investment trust engaged in the acquisition, operation, and development of multifamily apartment communities located in southeastern and southwestern United States. Company operates two reportable segments; Same Store includes communities that the Company has owned and have been stabilized for at least a full 12 months as of the first day of the calendar year and Non-Same Store and Other includes recently acquired communities, communities being developed or in lease-up, communities that have been disposed of or identified for disposition, communities that have experienced a significant casualty loss and stabilized communities that do not meet the requirements to be Same Store communities. Key revenue comes from the Same Store.
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