Pick N Pay Stores Dividend yield

Pick N Pay Stores is part of Food and Drug Retailers business, which is part of Consumer Services industry. Pick N Pay Stores is a company from South Africa, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Pick N Pay Stores stock dividend

Pick N Pay Stores paid a total dividend of 914 million ZAR last year, for a market value of 17,216 millions (Market Cap 12,136 millions). Pick N Pay Stores dividend per share is 1.85 ZAR, and his stock market price 34.85 ZAR.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Pick N Pay Stores has a dividend yield of 5.31%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from South Africa. It is also bigger than average of Consumer Services industry. This high dividend yield might be a sign to worry about the future of the company so deeper analysis is needed.

In addition, you should compare Pick N Pay Stores stocks dividend with other Food and Drug Retailers companies or other of the high South Africa dividend stocks list.

Pick N Pay Stores Dividend Payout

About the ability of Pick N Pay Stores to maintain his current dividend of ZAR 1.85 per share, an amount that accounts for 5.31%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Pick N Pay Stores payout on ernings is currently 72.27%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Consumer Services industry, which are 39.34% and 31.45% respectively. Both figures show that Pick N Pay Stores 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 Pick N Pay Stores is ZAR 7.74 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of ZAR 1.85, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Pick N Pay Stores, compared againt world market average, South Africa companies, Consumer Services industry and Food and Drug Retailers sector companies.

Pick N Pay Stores Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	ZAR	Paypout	Shares*
Present	5.31%	1.85	72.27%	494
2022	4.05%	2.30	84.56%	494
2021	3.75%	1.97	88.74%	494
2020	3.82%	1.92	70.33%	494
2019	3.68%	2.35	63.69%	494
2018	2.87%	1.94	64.88%	494
2017	2.58%	1.79	62.59%	489
2016	2.28%	1.49	59.84%	487
2015	1.81%	1.18	56.73%	487

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Pick N Pay Stores dividend stock, and compare it with the average of South Africa stocks and that of the Food and Drug Retailers stocks.

Pick N Pay Stores Stock performance

Finally, last moth Pick N Pay Stores showed a return of -9.50% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.06% of Consumer Services firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -43.60% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for South Africa and Food and Drug Retailers firms.