During the past 12 months, Yakult Honsha Co'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 28.80% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 22.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.40% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Yakult Honsha Co was 38.70% per year. The lowest was 3.20% per year. And the median was 11.85% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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* Please note that "special dividend" is not included in the calculation of dividend per share and related fields.
Yakult Honsha Co Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Yakult Honsha Co'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 Yakult Honsha Co's Dividend Yield %
For the Beverages - Non-Alcoholic subindustry, Yakult Honsha Co'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.
Yakult Honsha Co's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Beverages - Non-Alcoholic Industry
For the Beverages - Non-Alcoholic industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Yakult Honsha Co's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Yakult Honsha Co's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Yakult Honsha Co Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Yakult Honsha Co Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
JPY 32.000000
2024-09-27
2024-09-30
2024-11-29
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
JPY:USD 0.006981
JPY 28.000000
2024-03-28
2024-03-31
2024-05-31
Cash Dividend
semi-annually
JPY:USD 0.006609
* 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.
Yakult Honsha Co's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Yakult Honsha Co's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
0.446784
/
20.45
=
2.18 %
Current Share Price is $20.45. Yakult Honsha Co's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.223392 * 2 = $0.446784.
* 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.
Yakult Honsha Co (OTCPK:YKLTF) 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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Yakult Honsha is a pioneer in probiotics, which launched the probiotic drinks Yakult in 1935 after Minoru Shirota's discovery of Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota, a strain of lactic acid bacteria proved to be able to live in intestines, in 1930. It operates in 40 countries across four continents selling mainly the Yakult probiotic drinks. Apart from the retail outlets, the home delivery channel, served by a team of 83,000 Yakult Ladies globally, contributes about 45% of its probiotic drink volume. Overseas markets comprise 40% of group sales and profits. Yakult has built a meaningful presence in populated emerging markets including China, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. It plans to step up expansion in the US. It also operates a pharmaceutical business with an emphasis on oncology drugs.
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