Royal KPN Dividend yield

Royal KPN is part of Fixed Line Telecommunications business, which is part of Telecommunications industry. Royal KPN is a company from Netherlands, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Royal KPN stock dividend

Royal KPN paid a total dividend of 605 million EUR last year, for a market value of 13,030 millions (Market Cap 10,257 millions). Royal KPN dividend per share is 0.15 EUR, and his stock market price 3.23 EUR.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Royal KPN has a dividend yield of 4.56%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Netherlands. It is also bigger than average of Telecommunications 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 Royal KPN stocks dividend with other Fixed Line Telecommunications companies or other of the best Netherlands dividend stocks list.

Royal KPN Dividend Payout

About the ability of Royal KPN to maintain his current dividend of EUR 0.15 per share, an amount that accounts for 4.56%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Royal KPN payout on ernings is currently 55.56%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Telecommunications industry, which are 39.34% and 41.86% respectively. Both figures show that Royal KPN 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 Royal KPN is EUR 0.54 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of EUR 0.15, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Royal KPN, compared againt world market average, Netherlands companies, Telecommunications industry and Fixed Line Telecommunications sector companies.

Royal KPN Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Royal KPN'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	4.56%	0.15	55.56%	4,034
2022	4.81%	0.14	35.00%	4,129
2021	4.84%	0.13	56.52%	4,197
2020	5.07%	0.13	52.00%	4,196
2019	4.64%	0.12	80.00%	4,196
2018	4.41%	0.11	55.00%	4,194
2017	3.58%	0.10	32.26%	4,193
2016	3.05%	0.08	30.77%	4,255
2015	2.22%	0.08	0.00%	4,255

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Royal KPN dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Netherlands stocks and that of the Fixed Line Telecommunications stocks.

Royal KPN Stock performance

Finally, last moth Royal KPN showed a return of -2.00% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -0.77% of Telecommunications firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 1.80% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Netherlands and Fixed Line Telecommunications firms.