Standard Chartered Dividend yield

Standard Chartered is part of Banks business, which is part of Financials industry. Standard Chartered is a company from UK, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Standard Chartered stock dividend

Standard Chartered paid a total dividend of 452 million GBP last year, for a market value of 20,128 millions (Market Cap 16,459 millions). Standard Chartered dividend per share is 0.16 GBP, and his stock market price 7.12 GBP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Standard Chartered has a dividend yield of 2.29%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from UK. It is also lower than average of Financials industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Standard Chartered stocks dividend with other Banks companies or other of the high UK dividend stocks list.

Standard Chartered Dividend Payout

About the ability of Standard Chartered to maintain his current dividend of GBP 0.16 per share, an amount that accounts for 2.29%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Standard Chartered payout on ernings is currently 17.98%, which is lower than the market average and companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures lead us to believe that there is confidence that Standard Charteredcan maintain his current 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 Standard Chartered is GBP 6.47 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of GBP 0.16, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Standard Chartered, compared againt world market average, UK companies, Financials industry and Banks sector companies.

Standard Chartered Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Standard Chartered'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	2.29%	0.16	17.98%	2,827
2022	1.59%	0.10	16.67%	2,895
2021	1.92%	0.09	42.86%	3,079
2020	1.12%	0.05	8.77%	3,156
2019	2.41%	0.17	73.91%	3,215
2018	2.06%	0.13	41.94%	3,302
2017	0.92%	0.07	0.00%	3,290
2016	1.12%	0.07	-16.28%	3,273
2015	6.63%	0.37	72.55%	3,273

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Standard Chartered dividend stock, and compare it with the average of UK stocks and that of the Banks stocks.

Standard Chartered Stock performance

Finally, last moth Standard Chartered showed a return of -4.80% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 19.00% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for UK and Banks firms.