Seek Dividend yield




   AUD/share 
 Price  23.11
 Dividend  0.45
 Earnings  0.78
 Cash-flow  0.94
 Book value  7.45
 Equity  6.34

Seek is part of Support Services business, which is part of Industrials industry. Seek is a company from Australia, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Seek stock dividend

Seek paid a total dividend of 160 million AUD last year, for a market value of 8,204 millions (Market Cap 8,092 millions). Seek dividend per share is 0.45 AUD, and his stock market price 23.11 AUD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Seek has a dividend yield of 1.95%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Australia. It is also lower than average of Industrials industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Seek stocks dividend with other Support Services companies or other of the high Australia dividend stocks list.

Dividend yield of Seek

Seek Dividend Payout

About the ability of Seek to maintain his current dividend of AUD 0.45 per share, an amount that accounts for 1.95%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Seek payout on ernings is currently 57.69%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Industrials industry, which are 39.34% and 37.26% respectively. Both figures show that Seek 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 Seek is AUD 0.94 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of AUD 0.45, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Seek, compared againt world market average, Australia companies, Industrials industry and Support Services sector companies.

Seek payout

Seek Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Seek'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* 
Present1.95%0.4557.69%355
20222.10%0.4453.01%354
20210.61%0.2040.82%353
20201.23%0.350.00%352
20192.04%0.4664.79%351
20182.72%0.46153.33%351
20172.31%0.4440.37%348
20162.70%0.4034.48%344
20152.59%0.3639.56%344

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Seek dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Australia stocks and that of the Support Services stocks.

Seek stock dividend history

Seek Stock performance

Finally, last moth Seek showed a return of -7.20% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -2.39% of Industrials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 10.80% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Australia and Support Services firms.

Seek stock and market return