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Dialog Axiata (COL:DIAL.N0000) Forward Dividend Yield % : 6.62% (As of May. 20, 2025)


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What is Dialog Axiata Forward Dividend Yield %?

As of today (2025-05-20), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of Dialog Axiata is 6.62%.

As of today (2025-05-20), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Dialog Axiata is 8.87%.

COL:DIAL.N0000's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked better than
80.89% of 225 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 4.16 vs COL:DIAL.N0000: 6.62

Dialog Axiata's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was රු0.00.

During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 21.90% per year.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Dialog Axiata was 52.40% per year. The lowest was -19.60% per year. And the median was 12.00% per year.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.


Competitive Comparison of Dialog Axiata's Forward Dividend Yield %

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Dialog Axiata's Forward Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Forward 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.


Dialog Axiata's Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Dialog Axiata's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Dialog Axiata's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.


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Dialog Axiata Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Dialog Axiata Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
LKR 1.3400002024-06-142024-06-182024-07-05Cash DividendannuallyLKR:LKR 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.

Dialog Axiata's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=1.34/15.30
=8.76 %

Current Share Price is රු15.30.
Dialog Axiata's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as රු1.34 * 1 = රු1.34.

Dialog Axiata's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Trailing Annual Dividend Yield=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=1.34/15.30
=8.76 %

Current Share Price is රු15.30.
Dialog Axiata's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is රු1.34.

* 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.


Dialog Axiata  (COL:DIAL.N0000) Forward Dividend Yield % Explanation

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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Dialog Axiata Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
No. 475, Union Place, Colombo, LKA, 02
Dialog Axiata PLC operates a mobile telecommunications network. It mainly offers the provision of mobile services, data services, international direct dialing services, leasing of passive infrastructure, provision of interconnect services, pay television transmission services, provision of other data services, and digital services. The company serves its customer-facing technology and service delivery infrastructures spanning mobile, fixed line, broadband, digital television, and digital services sectors. Its segments include Mobile operation; Fixed telephony and broadband operation; and Television operation. The company generates maximum revenue from the Mobile operation segment.

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