Lamb Weston Holdings Dividend yield report

Lamb Weston Holdings is part of Food Producers business, which is part of Consumer Goods industry. Lamb Weston Holdings is a company from USA, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Lamb Weston Holdings paid a total dividend of 28 million USD last year, for a market capitalization of 6,776 millions. Dividend per share of Lamb Weston Holdings is 0.19 USD, and his stock market price 46.41 USD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Lamb Weston Holdings has a dividend yield of 0.40%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from USA. It is also lower than average of Consumer Goods industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

About the ability of Lamb Weston Holdings to maintain his current dividend of USD 0.19 per share, an amount that accounts for 0.40%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Lamb Weston Holdings payout on ernings is currently 9.64%, which is lower than the market average and companies of Consumer Goods industry, which are 39.83% and 37.10% respectively. Both figures lead us to believe that there is confidence that Lamb Weston Holdingscan maintain his current dividend.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this latter amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Lamb Weston Holdings is USD 2.62 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of USD 0.19, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Lamb Weston Holdings, compared againt world market average, USA companies, Consumer Goods industry and Food Producers sector companies. You might also need to check full financial report of Lamb Weston Holdings.

Finally, you could compare Lamb Weston Holdings dividend yield with other Food Producers companies or firms from USA.