Almarai Co Ltd Dividend yield

Almarai Co Ltd is part of Food Producers business, which is part of Consumer Goods industry. Almarai Co Ltd is a company from Saudi Arabia, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Almarai Co Ltd stock dividend

Almarai Co Ltd paid a total dividend of 990 million SAR last year, for a market value of 62,766 millions (Market Cap 15,440 millions). Almarai Co Ltd dividend per share is 1.00 SAR, and his stock market price 63.40 SAR.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Almarai Co Ltd has a dividend yield of 1.58%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Saudi Arabia. It is also lower than average of Consumer Goods industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Almarai Co Ltd stocks dividend with other Food Producers companies or other of the high Saudi Arabia dividend stocks list.

Almarai Co Ltd Dividend Payout

About the ability of Almarai Co Ltd to maintain his current dividend of SAR 1.00 per share, an amount that accounts for 1.58%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Almarai Co Ltd payout on ernings is currently 54.64%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Consumer Goods industry, which are 39.34% and 40.18% respectively. Both figures show that Almarai Co Ltd can have problems to keep with his present dividend yield.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this last amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Almarai Co Ltd is SAR 3.84 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of SAR 1.00, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Almarai Co Ltd, compared againt world market average, Saudi Arabia companies, Consumer Goods industry and Food Producers sector companies.

Almarai Co Ltd Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Almarai Co Ltd's dividend stock, both in percentage and in SAR, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year	Yield	SAR	Paypout	Shares*
Present	1.58%	1.00	54.64%	990
2022	1.87%	1.00	60.61%	990
2021	2.05%	1.00	48.31%	989
2020	1.55%	0.85	45.21%	989
2019	1.72%	0.85	42.08%	992

*In millions

Almarai Co Ltd Stock performance

Finally, last moth Almarai Co Ltd showed a return of -8.00% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -1.86% of Consumer Goods firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 19.60% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Saudi Arabia and Food Producers firms.