Saputo Dividend yield

Saputo is part of Food Producers business, which is part of Consumer Goods industry. Saputo is a company from Canada, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Saputo stock dividend

Saputo paid a total dividend of 304 million CAD last year, for a market value of 12,327 millions (Market Cap 7,123 millions). Saputo dividend per share is 0.72 CAD, and his stock market price 29.21 CAD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Saputo has a dividend yield of 2.46%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Canada. It is also lower than average of Consumer Goods industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Saputo stocks dividend with other Food Producers companies or other of the high Canada dividend stocks list.

Saputo Dividend Payout

About the ability of Saputo to maintain his current dividend of CAD 0.72 per share, an amount that accounts for 2.46%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Saputo payout on ernings is currently 39.78%, which is higher than the market average, but lower than companies of Consumer Goods industry, which are 39.34% and 40.18% respectively. Both figures show that Saputo 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 Saputo is CAD 2.61 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of CAD 0.72, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Saputo, compared againt world market average, Canada companies, Consumer Goods industry and Food Producers sector companies.

Saputo Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	CAD	Paypout	Shares*
Present	2.46%	0.72	39.78%	422
2022	2.15%	0.72	72.00%	417
2021	2.53%	0.72	39.34%	411
2020	1.96%	0.70	41.18%	408
2019	1.69%	0.68	31.78%	408
2018	1.68%	0.66	28.95%	388
2017	1.42%	0.64	33.16%	386
2016	1.32%	0.60	37.97%	391
2015	1.65%	0.54	33.96%	391

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Saputo dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Canada stocks and that of the Food Producers stocks.

Saputo Stock performance

Finally, last moth Saputo showed a return of 4.90% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -1.86% of Consumer Goods firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -12.40% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Canada and Food Producers firms.