Melrose Industries Dividend yield

Melrose Industries is part of Construction and Materials business, which is part of Industrials industry. Melrose Industries is a company from UK, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Melrose Industries stock dividend

Melrose Industries paid a total dividend of 95 million GBP last year, for a market value of 6,936 millions (Market Cap 6,855 millions). Melrose Industries dividend per share is 0.07 GBP, and his stock market price 5.13 GBP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Melrose Industries has a dividend yield of 1.36%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from UK. It is also lower than average of Industrials industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Melrose Industries stocks dividend with other Construction and Materials companies or other of the high UK dividend stocks list.

Melrose Industries Dividend Payout

About the ability of Melrose Industries to maintain his current dividend of GBP 0.07 per share, an amount that accounts for 1.36%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Melrose Industries payout on ernings is currently 43.75%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Industrials industry, which are 39.34% and 37.26% respectively. Both figures show that Melrose Industries 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 Melrose Industries is GBP 0.20 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of GBP 0.07, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Melrose Industries, compared againt world market average, UK companies, Industrials industry and Construction and Materials sector companies.

Melrose Industries Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	GBP	Paypout	Shares*
Present	1.36%	0.07	43.75%	1,352
2022	1.36%	0.02	0.00%	4,054
2021	0.99%	0.02	0.00%	4,372
2020	0.00%	0.00	0.00%	4,858
2019	1.98%	0.05	-55.56%	4,858
2018	2.65%	0.04	0.00%	4,858
2017	1.56%	0.03	0.00%	1,941
2015	2.79%	0.08	30.77%	995

*In millions

Melrose Industries Stock performance

Finally, last moth Melrose Industries showed a return of -3.30% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -2.39% of Industrials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 151.50% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for UK and Construction and Materials firms.