Santos Dividend yield

Santos is part of Oil and Gas Producers business, which is part of Oil and Gas industry. Santos is a company from Australia, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Santos stock dividend

Santos paid a total dividend of 1,218 million AUD last year, for a market value of 25,257 millions (Market Cap 22,895 millions). Santos dividend per share is 0.37 AUD, and his stock market price 7.67 AUD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Santos has a dividend yield of 4.79%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Australia. It is also bigger than average of Oil and Gas 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 Santos stocks dividend with other Oil and Gas Producers companies or other of the high Australia dividend stocks list.

Santos Dividend Payout

About the ability of Santos to maintain his current dividend of AUD 0.37 per share, an amount that accounts for 4.79%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Santos payout on ernings is currently 40.22%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Oil and Gas industry, which are 39.34% and 38.55% respectively. Both figures show that Santos 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 Santos is AUD 1.92 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of AUD 0.37, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Santos, compared againt world market average, Australia companies, Oil and Gas industry and Oil and Gas Producers sector companies.

Santos Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	AUD	Paypout	Shares*
Present	4.79%	0.37	40.22%	3,293
2022	3.33%	0.24	92.31%	3,328
2021	2.29%	0.14	-93.33%	3,387
2020	1.47%	0.09	19.57%	2,083
2019	2.12%	0.17	41.46%	2,083
2018	0.91%	0.05	-22.73%	2,083
2017	0.92%	0.05	-7.46%	2,083
2016	1.27%	0.05	-3.31%	1,765
2015	4.71%	0.19	-32.20%	1,592

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Santos dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Australia stocks and that of the Oil and Gas Producers stocks.

Santos Stock performance

Finally, last moth Santos showed a return of -3.60% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -1.44% of Oil and Gas firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -2.80% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Australia and Oil and Gas Producers firms.