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Sodexo (Sodexo) Dividend Yield %

: 4.08% (As of Today)
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As of today (2024-04-19), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Sodexo is 4.08%.

Good Sign:

Sodexo stock dividend yield is close to 2-year high.

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

SDXAY' s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.34   Med: 3.1   Max: 7.23
Current: 4.08

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Sodexo was 7.23%. The lowest was 2.34%. And the median was 3.10%.

SDXAY's Dividend Yield % is ranked better than
69.62% of 586 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 2.92 vs SDXAY: 4.08

Sodexo's Dividend Payout Ratio for the six months ended in Aug. 2023 was 0.00.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Sodexo was 0.62. The lowest was 0.40. And the median was 0.56.

As of today (2024-04-19), the Forward Dividend Yield % of Sodexo is 4.08%.

Sodexo's Dividends per Share for the six months ended in Aug. 2023 was $0.00.

During the past 12 months, Sodexo's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 20.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -6.10% per year.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Sodexo was 24.00% per year. The lowest was -10.10% per year. And the median was 7.70% per year.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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Sodexo Dividend Yield % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sodexo'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.

* Premium members only.

Array ( [0] => - [1] => - [2] => - [3] => - [4] => - [5] => 2.79 [6] => 4.44 [7] => - [8] => 2.94 [9] => 2.36 )
Sodexo Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Dividend Yield %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.79 4.44 - 2.94 2.36

Sodexo Semi-Annual Data
Feb14 Aug14 Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23
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 - 2.70 2.94 2.75 2.36

Competitive Comparison

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Sodexo'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.


Sodexo Dividend Yield % Distribution

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Sodexo's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Sodexo Dividend Yield % Calculation

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

Sodexo Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.6822023-12-202023-12-212024-01-10Cash DividendannuallyUSD: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.

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

Trailing Annual Dividend Yield=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.682/16.65
=4.10 %

Current Share Price is $16.65.
Sodexo's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $0.682.

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

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.682/16.65
=4.10 %

Current Share Price is $16.65.
Sodexo's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.682 * 1 = $0.682.

* 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.


Sodexo  (OTCPK:SDXAY) 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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Sodexo (Sodexo) Business Description

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255 Quai de la Bataille de Stalingrad, Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), Cedex 9, Paris, FRA, 92130
Sodexo is one of the largest food service companies globally, operating in more than 80 countries with annual sales of over EUR 21 billion. Sodexo's model stems from operating on-premise catering facilities, rather than centralised industrial kitchens. While food services remains the largest business segment (58% of revenue in 2022), the company has actively pursued a strategy of diversifying its business activities into other areas, such as facilities-management services, which now represents 38% of group revenue.

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