If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Bureau Veritas SA is 0.74, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Bureau Veritas was 0.93. The lowest was 0.39. And the median was 0.70.
During the past 12 months, Bureau Veritas's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 7.80% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Bureau Veritas was 29.70% per year. The lowest was -13.70% per year. And the median was 5.30% 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.
Bureau Veritas Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Bureau Veritas'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 Bureau Veritas's Dividend Yield %
For the Consulting Services subindustry, Bureau Veritas'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.
Bureau Veritas's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Bureau Veritas's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Bureau Veritas's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Bureau Veritas Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Bureau Veritas Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
EUR 0.830000
2024-07-02
2024-07-03
2024-07-04
Cash Dividend
annually
EUR:EUR 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.
Bureau Veritas's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Bureau Veritas's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.83
/
29.77
=
2.79 %
Current Share Price is €29.77. Bureau Veritas's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €0.83 * 1 = €0.83.
* 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.
Bureau Veritas (LTS:0MH1) 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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Bureau Veritas is involved in the testing, inspection, and certification industry. The company's primary activities involve testing products or materials, inspecting sites/equipment, and certifying products and systems to maintain global standards. BV is one of a handful of companies in the TIC sector that operate globally across numerous industries, including marine, industry, commodities, construction, and consumer products. BV listed in 2007, prior to which it was privately owned by the Wendel Group, who retain a significant holding.
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