St.James Place Dividend yield

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

St.James Place stock dividend

St.James Place paid a total dividend of 290 million GBP last year, for a market value of 4,850 millions (Market Cap 4,777 millions). St.James Place dividend per share is 0.53 GBP, and his stock market price 8.85 GBP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, St.James Place has a dividend yield of 5.99%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from UK. It is also bigger than average of Financials 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 St.James Place stocks dividend with other Life Insurance companies or other of the high UK dividend stocks list.

St.James Place Dividend Payout

About the ability of St.James Place to maintain his current dividend of GBP 0.53 per share, an amount that accounts for 5.99%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). St.James Place payout on ernings is currently 69.74%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures show that St.James Place 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 St.James Place is GBP -1.92 per share, which is lower than the dividend per share paid by the company of GBP 0.53, 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 St.James Place, compared againt world market average, UK companies, Financials industry and Life Insurance sector companies.

St.James Place Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of St.James Place'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	5.99%	0.53	69.74%	548
2022	5.11%	0.56	101.82%	543
2021	2.97%	0.50	100.00%	539
2020	3.40%	0.39	139.29%	537
2019	4.14%	0.48	145.45%	531
2018	4.87%	0.46	164.29%	529
2017	2.94%	0.36	163.64%	528
2016	3.15%	0.30	75.00%	524
2015	2.47%	0.25	67.57%	524

*In millions

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

St.James Place Stock performance

Finally, last moth St.James Place showed a return of -5.90% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -20.10% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for UK and Life Insurance firms.