During the past 12 months, United-Guardian's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -85.30% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -49.60% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -30.70% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -9.80% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of United-Guardian was 45.10% per year. The lowest was -49.60% per year. And the median was 13.00% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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United-Guardian Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for United-Guardian'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 United-Guardian's Dividend Yield %
For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, United-Guardian'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.
United-Guardian's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, United-Guardian's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where United-Guardian's Dividend Yield % falls into.
United-Guardian Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
United-Guardian Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.250
2024-02-09
2024-02-12
2024-02-20
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.100
2023-07-25
2023-07-26
2023-08-02
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
USD: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.
United-Guardian'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.
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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United-Guardian (United-Guardian) Business Description
United-Guardian Inc manufactures and markets cosmetic ingredients, pharmaceuticals, medical lubricants, and specialty industrial products. Its product portfolio includes Klensoft, Deselex, Renacidin, Lubrajel Fluid and others. The company's pharmaceutical products are sold to and distributed by full-line drug wholesalers throughout the United States. Its medical and specialty industrial products are sold directly by the company to the end-users of those products or, in some cases, to contract manufacturers used by some of those end users. It derives key revenue from the sales made in the U.S.
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