Essity Aktiebolag B Dividend yield

Essity Aktiebolag B is part of Personal Goods business, which is part of Consumer Goods industry. Essity Aktiebolag B is a company from Sweden, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Essity Aktiebolag B stock dividend

Essity Aktiebolag B paid a total dividend of 4,654 million SEK last year, for a market value of 163,904 millions (Market Cap 155,782 millions). Essity Aktiebolag B dividend per share is 7.26 SEK, and his stock market price 255.70 SEK.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Essity Aktiebolag B has a dividend yield of 2.84%, which is lower than the amount offered by the market average , but bigger than Consumer Goods industry. Dividend yields are similar among companies from the same industry, so it is a positive sign for the company.

In addition, you should compare Essity Aktiebolag B stocks dividend with other Personal Goods companies or other of the highest Sweden dividend stocks list.

Essity Aktiebolag B Dividend Payout

About the ability of Essity Aktiebolag B to maintain his current dividend of SEK 7.26 per share, an amount that accounts for 2.84%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Essity Aktiebolag B payout on ernings is currently 73.26%, 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 Essity Aktiebolag B 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 Essity Aktiebolag B is SEK 18.13 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of SEK 7.26, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Essity Aktiebolag B, compared againt world market average, Sweden companies, Consumer Goods industry and Personal Goods sector companies.

Essity Aktiebolag B Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	SEK	Paypout	Shares*
Present	2.84%	7.26	73.26%	641
2022	2.56%	7.00	50.98%	641
2021	2.29%	6.76	41.88%	641
2020	2.36%	6.24	42.48%	639
2019	1.91%	5.76	45.25%	638
2018	2.64%	5.74	40.88%	638
2017	0.00%	0.00	0.00%	635

*In millions

Essity Aktiebolag B Stock performance

Finally, last moth Essity Aktiebolag B showed a return of -2.00% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -1.86% of Consumer Goods firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 7.80% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Sweden and Personal Goods firms.