If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Challenger Ltd is 1.35, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Challenger was 1.35. The lowest was 0.28. And the median was 0.54.
During the past 12 months, Challenger's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 6.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 38.10% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -6.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -3.50% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Challenger was 38.10% per year. The lowest was -35.30% per year. And the median was 10.50% 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.
Challenger Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Challenger'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 Challenger's Dividend Yield %
For the Insurance - Life subindustry, Challenger'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.
Challenger's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Challenger's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Challenger's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Challenger Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Challenger Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
AUD 0.135000
2024-08-26
2024-08-27
2024-09-18
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
AUD:EUR 0.603862
AUD 0.130000
2024-02-20
2024-02-21
2024-03-19
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
AUD:EUR 0.604697
* 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.
Challenger's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.16013198
/
3.48
=
4.60 %
Current Share Price is €3.48. Challenger's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is €0.16013198.
Challenger's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.16304274
/
3.48
=
4.69 %
Current Share Price is €3.48. Challenger's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €0.08152137 * 2 = €0.16304274.
* 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.
Challenger (FRA:GK9) 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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Challenger's core business is selling annuity products in the Australian retirement market and, since November 2016, selling Australian dollar-denominated annuities into Japan's large retirement market. The firm's annuity products provide investors guaranteed regular payments over an agreed term for an upfront lump sum investment and is designed primarily to protect investors from the longevity risk of outliving their savings. Challenger also operates a funds management business, Fidante Partners, which has minority stakes in several boutique global investment managers, and Challenger Investment Management, which primarily manages investments supporting its annuities business.
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