If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Nation Media Group PLC is 0.84, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Nation Media Group was 1.57. The lowest was 0.65. And the median was 0.99.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -30.90% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Nation Media Group was 31.30% per year. The lowest was -30.90% per year. And the median was 0.50% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Nation Media Group Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Nation Media 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 Nation Media Group's Dividend Yield %
For the Entertainment subindustry, Nation Media 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.
Nation Media Group's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Nation Media Group's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Nation Media Group's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Nation Media Group Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Nation Media Group Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
KES 1.500000
2023-06-19
2023-06-16
2023-07-31
Cash Dividend
annually
KES:KES 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.
Nation Media Group's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
* 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.
Nation Media Group (NAI:NMG) 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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Nation Media Group PLC is a media house in East and Central Africa. Its principal activities of the group are the publication, printing, and distribution of newspapers and magazines, radio and television broadcasting, and digital online products. It has businesses in television networks, film, and TV entertainment and delivers content on a multi-platform basis. Its operating segments are Newspapers & Digital and broadcasting. It generated the majority of its revenue from Newspapers & Digital segments that are engaged in the sale of newspapers, advertisements published in the newspapers, advertisements in the digital platforms, and subscriptions of e-paper.
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