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Kuwait Finance House (KUW:KFH) Forward Dividend Yield %

: 2.64% (As of Today)
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As of today (2024-04-20), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of Kuwait Finance House is 2.64%.

As of today (2024-04-20), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Kuwait Finance House is 2.64%.

KUW:KFH's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than
77.4% of 1168 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 4.17 vs KUW:KFH: 2.64

Kuwait Finance House's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was KWD0.00.

During the past 12 months, Kuwait Finance House's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 130.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 18.00% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 11.60% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.20% per year.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Kuwait Finance House was 32.60% per year. The lowest was -3.90% per year. And the median was 16.30% per year.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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


Competitive Comparison

For the Banks - Diversified subindustry, Kuwait Finance House'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.


Kuwait Finance House Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Kuwait Finance House's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Kuwait Finance House's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.



Kuwait Finance House Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation

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

Kuwait Finance House Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
KWD 0.0102024-04-072024-04-142024-04-17Cash Dividendsemi-annuallyKWD:KWD 1.000000
KWD 0.0092023-08-142023-08-162023-08-21Cash Dividendsemi-annuallyKWD:KWD 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.

Kuwait Finance House's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.02/0.727
=2.75 %

Current Share Price is KWD0.727.
Kuwait Finance House's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as KWD0.01 * 2 = KWD0.02.

Kuwait Finance House's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Trailing Annual Dividend Yield=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.019/0.727
=2.61 %

Current Share Price is KWD0.727.
Kuwait Finance House's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is KWD0.019.

* 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.


Kuwait Finance House  (KUW:KFH) 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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Kuwait Finance House (KUW:KFH) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Abdullah Al Mubarak Street, P.O. Box 24989, Safat, Murqab, Kuwait City, KWT, 13110
Kuwait Finance House is an Islamic banking institution. It provides a range of banking Sharia-compliant products and services which include real estate, trade finance, investment portfolios, commercial, retail, and corporate banking. The company's segments are Treasury, Investment, Retail & Private Banking, and Corporates Banking. It operates in Kuwait, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Germany.

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