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Safe Bulkers (Safe Bulkers) Forward Dividend Yield %

: 7.97% (As of Today)
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As of today (2024-04-23), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of Safe Bulkers is 7.97%.

As of today (2024-04-23), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Safe Bulkers is 7.97%.

SBpBCL.PFD's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked better than
61.62% of 628 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 3.185 vs SBpBCL.PFD: 7.97

Safe Bulkers's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.00.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Safe Bulkers was -1.10% per year. The lowest was -56.90% per year. And the median was -28.40% 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 Marine Shipping subindustry, Safe Bulkers'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.


Safe Bulkers Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Safe Bulkers's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Safe Bulkers Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation

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


Safe Bulkers  (NYSE:SBpBCL.PFD) 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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Safe Bulkers (Safe Bulkers) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
6, Avenue des Citronniers, Apt. D11, Les Acanthes, Monaco City, MCO, MC98000
Safe Bulkers Inc is an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, particularly coal, grain and iron ore, along international shipping routes for consumers of marine drybulk transportation services. The company employs its vessels on both period time charters and spot time charters, according to the assessment of market conditions, with consumers of marine drybulk transportation services.