During the past 12 months, Family Dollar Stores's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -43.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 19.40% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 17.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.80% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Family Dollar Stores was 19.40% per year. The lowest was 9.10% per year. And the median was 11.10% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Family Dollar Stores Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Family Dollar Stores'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 Family Dollar Stores's Dividend Yield %
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Family Dollar Stores'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.
Family Dollar Stores's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Family Dollar Stores's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Family Dollar Stores's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Family Dollar Stores Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Family Dollar Stores (FRA:FAY) 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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Family Dollar Stores (FRA:FAY) Business Description
Family Dollar Stores Inc was incorporated in November 1959. The Company provides consumers with a selection of competitively priced merchandise in convenient neighbourhood stores. Its merchandise assortment includes Consumables, Home Products, Apparel and Accessories, and Seasonal and Electronics. It classifies the combination of Home Products, Apparel and Accessories, and Seasonal and Electronics as Discretionary. It operates general merchandise retail discount stores in 46 states, serving the basic needs of customers primarily in the low- and middle-income brackets. The stores are supported by 11 distribution centers and one Store Support Center. It competes for sales and store locations in varying degrees with international, national, regional and local retailing establishments, other discount stores, department stores, variety stores, dollar stores, discount clothing stores, drug stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, outlet stores, warehouse stores and other stores. The Company's trademark includes Family Dollar and Family Dollar Stores. Its business is subject to federal, state, local, and international laws, rules, and regulations, such as state and local wage and hour laws, anti-corruption laws, import and export laws, unclaimed property laws, and many others.
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