Barrick Gold Dividend yield

Barrick Gold is part of Mining business, which is part of Basic Materials industry. Barrick Gold is a company from Canada, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Barrick Gold stock dividend

Barrick Gold paid a total dividend of 951 million CAD last year, for a market value of 38,588 millions (Market Cap 38,396 millions). Barrick Gold dividend per share is 0.54 CAD, and his stock market price 21.90 CAD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Barrick Gold has a dividend yield of 2.47%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Canada. It is also lower than average of Basic Materials industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Barrick Gold stocks dividend with other Mining companies or other of the highest Canada dividend stocks list.

Barrick Gold Dividend Payout

About the ability of Barrick Gold to maintain his current dividend of CAD 0.54 per share, an amount that accounts for 2.47%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Barrick Gold payout on ernings is currently 168.75%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Basic Materials industry, which are 39.34% and 38.07% respectively. Both figures show that Barrick Gold 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 Barrick Gold is CAD 3.22 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of CAD 0.54, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Barrick Gold, compared againt world market average, Canada companies, Basic Materials industry and Mining sector companies.

Barrick Gold Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	CAD	Paypout	Shares*
Present	2.47%	0.54	168.75%	1,762
2022	3.79%	0.88	61.97%	1,779
2021	1.89%	0.45	25.42%	1,778
2020	1.58%	0.46	15.54%	1,778
2019	1.08%	0.26	-22.81%	1,768
2018	2.08%	0.38	46.91%	1,743
2017	0.83%	0.15	20.27%	1,165
2016	0.53%	0.11	-3.49%	1,165
2015	1.08%	0.11	-4.03%	1,165

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Barrick Gold dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Canada stocks and that of the Mining stocks.

Barrick Gold Stock performance

Finally, last moth Barrick Gold showed a return of -3.90% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.66% of Basic Materials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 12.30% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Canada and Mining firms.