Prudential Dividend yield

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

Prudential stock dividend

Prudential paid a total dividend of 413 million GBP last year, for a market value of 26,594 millions (Market Cap 26,574 millions). Prudential dividend per share is 0.15 GBP, and his stock market price 9.66 GBP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Prudential has a dividend yield of 1.60%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from UK. It is also lower than average of Financials industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Prudential stocks dividend with other Life Insurance companies or other of the high UK dividend stocks list.

Prudential Dividend Payout

About the ability of Prudential to maintain his current dividend of GBP 0.15 per share, an amount that accounts for 1.60%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Prudential payout on ernings is currently 27.78%, which is lower than the market average and companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures lead us to believe that there is confidence that Prudentialcan maintain his current 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 Prudential is GBP -6.44 per share, which is lower than the dividend per share paid by the company of GBP 0.15, 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 Prudential, compared againt world market average, UK companies, Financials industry and Life Insurance sector companies.

Prudential Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Prudential'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	1.60%	0.15	27.78%	2,753
2022	1.22%	0.14	9.46%	2,749
2021	0.92%	0.12	20.00%	2,746
2020	1.94%	0.26	113.04%	2,609
2019	3.46%	0.50	43.10%	2,600
2018	3.44%	0.48	43.64%	2,592
2017	2.37%	0.45	60.81%	2,586
2016	2.54%	0.39	39.00%	2,579
2015	2.47%	0.38	43.68%	2,552

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Prudential dividend stock, and compare it with the average of UK stocks and that of the Life Insurance stocks.

Prudential Stock performance

Finally, last moth Prudential showed a return of -10.70% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 6.90% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for UK and Life Insurance firms.