Capital Appreciation (JSE:CTA) 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate : 27.60% (As of Sep. 2023)

Competitive Comparison of Capital Appreciation's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Capital Appreciation's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate 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.

Capital Appreciation's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Capital Appreciation's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Capital Appreciation's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate falls into.

Capital Appreciation 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Calculation

This is the average annual rate that a company has been raising its dividends. The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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Capital Appreciation  (JSE:CTA) 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

Capital Appreciation's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

During the past 8 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Capital Appreciation was 3.32. The lowest was 0.21. And the median was 0.52.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Capital Appreciation Ltd is 3.32, which seems too high.

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

Capital Appreciation Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

* 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.

Capital Appreciation's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Current Share Price is R1.18.
Capital Appreciation's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is R0.0825.

During the past 8 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Capital Appreciation was 7.68%. The lowest was 1.98%. And the median was 4.56%.

Good Sign:

Capital Appreciation Ltd stock dividend yield is close to 10-year high.

* 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.

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