If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of PBT Group Ltd is 0.96, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of PBT Group was 7.91. The lowest was 0.06. And the median was 0.67.
During the past 12 months, PBT Group's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -54.90% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 70.60% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of PBT Group was 70.60% per year. The lowest was -66.60% per year. And the median was -5.50% 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.
PBT Group Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for PBT Group'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 PBT Group's Dividend Yield %
For the Information Technology Services subindustry, PBT Group'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.
PBT Group's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, PBT Group's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where PBT Group's Dividend Yield % falls into.
PBT Group Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
PBT Group Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
ZAR 0.340000
2024-07-17
2024-07-19
2024-07-22
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
ZAR:ZAR 1.000000
ZAR 0.260000
2023-12-20
2023-12-22
2023-12-27
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
ZAR:ZAR 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.
PBT Group's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.6
/
5.75
=
10.43 %
Current Share Price is R5.75. PBT Group's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is R0.6.
PBT Group's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.68
/
5.75
=
11.83 %
Current Share Price is R5.75. PBT Group's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as R0.34 * 2 = R0.68.
* 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.
PBT Group (JSE:PBG) 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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PBT Group Ltd is a South African-based company that offers information management and data analytics services. It serves finance, insurance, telecommunications, retail, petroleum and medical healthcare industries. The services provided by the company include data engineering, analytics and visualization, artificial intelligence, managed solutions, advisory and strategic services, application development and others. Its operating segments are based on geographical locations namely South Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom. The segment includes consulting and implementation of data, management information software and healthcare administration services provided in the Republic of South Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom.
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