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General Capital (NZSE:GEN) Dividend Yield % : 2.08% (As of Dec. 11, 2024)


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What is General Capital Dividend Yield %?

As of today (2024-12-11), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of General Capital is 2.08%.

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

NZSE:GEN' s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.08   Med: 4   Max: 4
Current: 2.08

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of General Capital was 4.00%. The lowest was 2.08%. And the median was 4.00%.

NZSE:GEN's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than
81.1% of 1233 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 3.69 vs NZSE:GEN: 2.08

General Capital's Dividend Payout Ratio for the six months ended in Sep. 2024 was 0.00.

As of today (2024-12-11), the Forward Dividend Yield % of General Capital is 4.15%.

General Capital's Dividends per Share for the six months ended in Sep. 2024 was NZ$0.00.

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.


General Capital Dividend Yield % Historical Data

The historical data trend for General Capital'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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General Capital Dividend Yield % Chart

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Competitive Comparison of General Capital's Dividend Yield %

For the Mortgage Finance subindustry, General Capital'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.


General Capital's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, General Capital's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where General Capital's Dividend Yield % falls into.



General Capital Dividend Yield % Calculation

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

General Capital Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
NZD 0.0055002024-11-292024-12-022024-12-13Cash Dividendsemi-annuallyNZD:NZD 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.

General Capital's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Trailing Annual Dividend Yield=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.0055/0.265
=2.08 %

Current Share Price is NZ$0.265.
General Capital's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is NZ$0.0055.

General Capital's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.011/0.265
=4.15 %

Current Share Price is NZ$0.265.
General Capital's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as NZ$0.0055 * 2 = NZ$0.011.

* 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.


General Capital  (NZSE:GEN) 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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General Capital Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
115 Queen Street, Level 8, General Capital House, Auckland, NTL, NZL, 1010
General Capital Ltd through its subsidiaries engaged in providing financial services. The company accepts deposits and also lends funds to borrowers over residential property. It operates through three segments Finance: Deposit taking and short-term property mortgage lending, Research and Advisory: Provides investment advisory services and produces and sells investment research and publications. Corporate and Other: Corporate function and investment activities. The Finance segment generates the majority of revenue for the company.