Dividend yield, counted from the filings
1,598 of the 5,521 US companies in this catalogue publish a dividend yield we computed from the accounts they filed. 3,807 publish none, and not one of those is printed as a zero.
A yield is last year’s filed common dividend over today’s price, so it carries two dates and both are printed under every block below. Nothing on this page is a list of companies to own, and no company is named anywhere on it.
The three answers a dividend column can give
- Publish a yield above zeroA common dividend the filed accounts show, over today's price.
- 1,598
- Publish an exact 0.00Counted apart from the blanks, because a filed zero and a figure we could not read are different answers.
- 116
- Publish no yield at allRendered n/a. Never counted as a company that pays nothing.
- 3,807
- Companies in the catalogue
- 5,521
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Where those 1,598 yields sit
- Lower quarter
- 1.13%
- Median
- 2.30%
- Upper quarter
- 3.82%
- At or above 3 percentThe floor the High yield, low payout screen runs. That number is ours, not an author's.
- 590
Notes on this count
These quarters are of the published yields above zero and of nothing else. The other 3,923 companies are not in the cohort and are not sitting in it as zeros, which is the difference between a median yield and an average that counted silence as nil. Benchmarks publishes no cross-market cohort for dividend yield, so there is no percentile to place a yield against here, only this count.
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Why 3,807 of them are blank
- The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
- 2,890
- No filed statements on record for this company.
- 203
- No figures have been computed for this company yet, though we hold its filings.
- 158
- No cash flow statement for the latest filed year is on file.
- 131
- The dividends on file cannot be split between common and preferred holders, so the common dividend cannot be stated.
- 121
- The only dividend lines on the filed cash flow statement are zeros the filer did not tag as the common dividend paid, so they say nothing about what reached the common holders.
- 88
- The newest cash flow statement on file ended more than fifteen months ago, so it says nothing about today's yield.
- 65
- No common dividend is on file for the year before, so one payment is not shown to be a run rate.
- 45
- Held back: the last annual report's share count does not match today's, as after a split.
- 38
- The latest year paid at least 1.5 times the year before, which reads as a special distribution rather than a run rate.
- 35
- The vendor's per-share dividend record disagrees with the company's filed dividends by more than 15%.
- 13
- The filed share count failed its unit check, so there is no market value we can show you the inputs of.
- 12
- The filed share count no longer matches today's share, after a split or new shares since the fiscal year, so the two do not compare.
- 8
Notes on this count
Two known gaps in our own reading account for part of it. We take two dividend concepts out of a filing and some filers use neither in any of their ten years; others report one total across every class of share, which cannot be split into the common dividend a yield needs. Both are ours to fix, and neither is a company that stopped paying.
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What a zero would have cost
A dividend record stored as 0 for a company whose dividend we cannot read looks exactly like a company that has never paid one. This product carried that defect and fixed it: a streak is now n/a when nothing was measured and 0 only for a break we saw. It was never only a display bug. A written rule saying a streak stays at or above twenty five would have been tested against that 0 and would have sent an email about a cut that never happened.
What this page cannot tell you
A yield is what was filed over what the shares cost today. It says nothing about whether the next one will be declared, and a figure that is right tonight is a figure that can be wrong after the next annual report. Reading this once tells you where the market sits; it cannot tell you the day the company you own stops clearing the line you cared about, because you have not written that line down anywhere.
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Meeting a test is not a reason to buy. Every count above is read from the public endpoints when the page is built, never typed into it: the whole table is at the company catalogue and every formula is at methodology.
No company is named on this page and nothing here ranks one against another. Every filed figure can be traced to the statement it came from in the company catalogue.