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Waste Connections 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate

: 17.50% (As of Sep. 2020)
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Waste Connections's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Sep. 2020 was $0.19.

NYSE:WCN' s 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 13.1   Med: 16.4   Max: 76.9
Current: 17.5
13.1
76.9

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Waste Connections was 76.90% per year. The lowest was 13.10% per year. And the median was 16.40% per year.

NYSE:WCN's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate is ranked higher than
65% of the 63 Companies
in the Waste Management industry.

( Industry Median: 8.00 vs. NYSE:WCN: 17.50 )

During the past 12 months, Waste Connections's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 15.60% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 17.50% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.60% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

Waste Connections's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Sep. 2020 was 0.31. As of today, Waste Connections's Dividend Yield % is 0.75%.

Warning Sign:

If a company dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Waste Connections Inc is 0.95, which seems too high.

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Competitive Comparison
* 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.

Waste Connections 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution

* The bar in red indicates where Waste Connections's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate falls into.


Waste Connections 3-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 expontential compound based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

Waste Connections  (NYSE:WCN) 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

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

Waste Connections's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2020 is calculated as

Dividend Payout Ratio=Dividends per Share (Q: Sep. 2020 )/ EPS without NRI (Q: Sep. 2020 )
=0.185/ 0.6
=0.31

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Waste Connections was 0.95. The lowest was 0.07. And the median was 0.26.

Warning Sign:

If a company dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Waste Connections Inc is 0.95, which seems too high.

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

Waste Connections Recent Full-Year Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.2052020-11-092020-11-102020-11-25Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.0000
USD 0.1852020-08-032020-08-042020-08-18Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.0000
USD 0.1852020-05-042020-05-052020-05-19Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.0000
USD 0.1852020-02-262020-02-272020-03-12Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.0000

* 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.

Waste Connections's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Dividend Yield %=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.76/101.40
=0.75 %

Current Share Price is $101.40.
Waste Connections's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $0.76.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Waste Connections was 1.22%. The lowest was 0.25%. And the median was 0.79%.

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are in their local exchange's currency.

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