As of today (2024-04-23), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Alcon is 0.29%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Alcon's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:
XSWX:ALC'
s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.12 Med: 0.28 Max: 0.35
Current: 0.29
During the past 8 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Alcon was 0.35%. The lowest was 0.12%. And the median was 0.28%.
XSWX:ALC's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than 94.21% of 311
companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 1.9
vs XSWX:ALC: 0.29
Alcon's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was CHF0.00.
During the past 12 months, Alcon's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.20% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
Alcon Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Alcon'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.
For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Alcon'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.
Alcon Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Alcon's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Alcon's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Alcon Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Alcon Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
CHF 0.210
2023-05-10
2023-05-11
2023-05-12
Cash Dividend
annually
CHF:CHF 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.
Alcon's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.21
/
73.20
=
0.29 %
Current Share Price is CHF73.20.
Alcon's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is CHF0.21.
Alcon's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.21
/
73.20
=
0.29 %
Current Share Price is CHF73.20.
Alcon's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as CHF0.21 * 1 = CHF0.21.
* 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.
Alcon (XSWX:ALC) 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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Alcon is one of the leading visioncare companies in the world. Following nine years as a Novartis subsidiary, it was spun off as a public company in April 2019. Alcon operates in two segments: visioncare and surgical. Visioncare comprises contact lenses, lenscare solutions, and a suite of ocular health products. With brands like Dailies, Total1, and Air Optix, Alcon controls one fourth of the U.S. contact lens market. Surgical comprises intraocular lenses, ophthalmic surgical equipment, and consumables used during surgeries. Its main products include Centurion, a phacoemulsification device used during cataract surgeries, and a portfolio of IOLs including PanOptix and Vivity. Alcon has one of the largest installed bases of eye surgical equipment in the world.
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