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Golar LNG (Golar LNG) Dividend Yield %

: 4.00% (As of Today)
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As of today (2024-04-16), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Golar LNG is 4.00%.

Good Sign:

Golar LNG Ltd stock dividend yield is close to 3-year high.

The historical rank and industry rank for Golar LNG's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:

GLNG' s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.58   Med: 3.03   Max: 13.27
Current: 4

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Golar LNG was 13.27%. The lowest was 0.58%. And the median was 3.03%.

GLNG's Dividend Yield % is ranked better than
50.3% of 495 companies
in the Oil & Gas industry
Industry Median: 3.99 vs GLNG: 4.00

Golar LNG's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.67.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Golar LNG Ltd is 1.05, which seems too high.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Golar LNG was 1.05. The lowest was 1.02. And the median was 1.02.

As of today (2024-04-16), the Forward Dividend Yield % of Golar LNG is 4.00%.

Golar LNG's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.25.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Golar LNG was 25.70% per year. The lowest was -51.90% per year. And the median was -2.20% per year.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.


Golar LNG Dividend Yield % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Golar LNG'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.

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Golar LNG Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Dividend Yield %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.16 - - - 3.26

Golar LNG Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Dividend Yield % Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - 1.24 2.06 3.26

Competitive Comparison

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Golar LNG'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.


Golar LNG Dividend Yield % Distribution

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Golar LNG's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Golar LNG's Dividend Yield % falls into.



Golar LNG Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Golar LNG Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.2502024-03-112024-03-122024-03-20Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.2502023-11-302023-12-012023-12-11Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.2502023-08-182023-08-212023-08-29Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.2502023-06-092023-06-122023-06-16Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 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.

Golar LNG's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Trailing Annual Dividend Yield=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=1/24.85
=4.02 %

Current Share Price is $24.85.
Golar LNG's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $1.

Golar LNG's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=1/24.85
=4.02 %

Current Share Price is $24.85.
Golar LNG's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.25 * 4 = $1.

* 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.


Golar LNG  (NAS:GLNG) 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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Golar LNG (Golar LNG) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
9 Par-la-Ville Road, 2nd Floor, S.E. Pearman Building, Hamilton, BMU, HM 11
Golar LNG Ltd is a midstream LNG company operates in the transportation, regasification, liquefaction, and trading of LNG. The segment in which the group operates includes Shipping, FLNG (Floating Liquefaction Natural Gas vessels), Power, and Corporate and other. It generates maximum revenue from the FLNG segment.

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