If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Fidus Investment Corp is 0.89, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Fidus Investment was 1.12. The lowest was 0.27. And the median was 0.84.
During the past 12 months, Fidus Investment's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 9.60% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 24.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 7.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 1.50% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Fidus Investment was 33.40% per year. The lowest was -6.90% per year. And the median was 0.90% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
* Please note that "special dividend" is not included in the calculation of dividend per share and related fields.
Fidus Investment Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Fidus Investment'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 Fidus Investment's Dividend Yield %
For the Asset Management subindustry, Fidus Investment'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.
Fidus Investment's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Fidus Investment's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Fidus Investment's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Fidus Investment Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Fidus Investment Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.570000
2024-09-19
2024-09-19
2024-09-26
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.901000
USD 0.590000
2024-06-18
2024-06-19
2024-06-26
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.929000
USD 0.650000
2024-03-19
2024-03-20
2024-03-27
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.920000
USD 0.700000
2023-12-19
2023-12-20
2023-12-27
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:EUR 0.917000
* 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.
Fidus Investment's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Fidus Investment's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2.05428
/
20.60
=
9.97 %
Current Share Price is €20.60. Fidus Investment's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €0.51357 * 4 = €2.05428.
* 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.
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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Fidus Investment Corp is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company. The company provides customized debt and equity financing solutions to lower middle-market companies. Its investment objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns by generating both current income from debt investments and capital appreciation from equity related investments. The company's portfolio of investments is comprised of securities of companies from different industries such as, Information Technology Services, Business Services, Healthcare Products among others.
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