If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Ruffer Investment Co Ltd is 1.37, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Ruffer Investment Co was 1.37. The lowest was 0.05. And the median was 0.20.
During the past 12 months, Ruffer Investment Co's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 42.30% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 24.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 14.60% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -2.00% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Ruffer Investment Co was 24.90% per year. The lowest was -19.10% per year. And the median was 2.00% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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* Please note that "special dividend" is not included in the calculation of dividend per share and related fields.
Ruffer Investment Co Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Ruffer Investment Co's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Ruffer Investment Co's Dividend Yield %
For the Asset Management subindustry, Ruffer Investment Co's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and 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.
Ruffer Investment Co's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Ruffer Investment Co's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Ruffer Investment Co's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Ruffer Investment Co Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Ruffer Investment Co Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
GBP 0.031000
2024-09-26
2024-09-27
2024-10-11
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
GBP:GBP 1.000000
GBP 0.020000
2024-03-07
2024-03-08
2024-03-22
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
GBP:GBP 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.
Ruffer Investment Co's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
* 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.
Ruffer Investment Co (CHIX:RICAl) 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.
Ruffer Investment Co Dividend Yield % Related Terms
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Ruffer Investment Co Ltd is a closed-end investment company. Its principal objective is to achieve a positive total annual return, after all expenses, of at least twice the Bank of England Bank Rate. The company adopts a stock picking approach and invests across a broad range of assets, geographies, and sectors including listed or quoted equities or equity-related securities, options, and bonds that are issued by corporate issuers, supra-nationals, or government organizations and investment in funds. It uses derivatives, including futures, options, swap agreements, structured products, warrants, and forward currency contracts, for efficient portfolio management. The majority part of the company's revenue comes from investment income such as dividends and interest.
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