Poste Italiane Dividend yield

Poste Italiane is part of Life Insurance business, which is part of Financials industry. Poste Italiane is a company from Italy, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Poste Italiane stock dividend

Poste Italiane paid a total dividend of 844 million EUR last year, for a market value of 13,317 millions (Market Cap 4,648 millions). Poste Italiane dividend per share is 0.65 EUR, and his stock market price 10.26 EUR.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Poste Italiane has a dividend yield of 6.34%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Italy. It is also bigger than average of Financials 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 Poste Italiane stocks dividend with other Life Insurance companies or other of the high Italy dividend stocks list.

Poste Italiane Dividend Payout

About the ability of Poste Italiane to maintain his current dividend of EUR 0.65 per share, an amount that accounts for 6.34%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Poste Italiane payout on ernings is currently 45.45%, which is higher than the market average, but lower than companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures show that Poste Italiane should not have problems to continue paying his dividend.

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 Poste Italiane is EUR 0.14 per share, which is lower than the dividend per share paid by the company of EUR 0.65, so the company does not generate enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Poste Italiane, compared againt world market average, Italy companies, Financials industry and Life Insurance sector companies.

Poste Italiane Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	EUR	Paypout	Shares*
Present	6.34%	0.65	45.45%	1,298
2022	6.74%	0.62	42.18%	1,301
2021	4.41%	0.51	44.74%	1,301
2020	5.66%	0.47	38.84%	1,301
2019	5.88%	0.60	48.78%	1,301
2018	6.01%	0.42	60.00%	1,306
2017	6.22%	0.39	59.09%	1,306
2016	5.80%	0.34	45.33%	1,306

*In millions

Poste Italiane Stock performance

Finally, last moth Poste Italiane showed a return of -1.30% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 28.30% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Italy and Life Insurance firms.