Standard Life Aberdeen Dividend yield

Standard Life Aberdeen is part of Financial Services business, which is part of Financials industry. Standard Life Aberdeen is a company from UK, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Standard Life Aberdeen stock dividend

Standard Life Aberdeen paid a total dividend of 300 million GBP last year, for a market value of 3,303 millions (Market Cap 3,254 millions). Standard Life Aberdeen dividend per share is 0.15 GBP, and his stock market price 1.65 GBP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Standard Life Aberdeen has a dividend yield of 8.84%, 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 Standard Life Aberdeen stocks dividend with other Financial Services companies or other of the high UK dividend stocks list.

Standard Life Aberdeen Dividend Payout

About the ability of Standard Life Aberdeen to maintain his current dividend of GBP 0.15 per share, an amount that accounts for 8.84%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Standard Life Aberdeen payout on ernings is currently -71.43%, 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 Life Aberdeencan 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 Life Aberdeen is GBP 0.03 per share, which is lower than the dividend per share paid by the company of GBP 0.15, 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 Standard Life Aberdeen, compared againt world market average, UK companies, Financials industry and Financial Services sector companies.

Standard Life Aberdeen Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Standard Life Aberdeen'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	8.84%	0.15	-71.43%	2,002
2022	7.71%	0.15	26.79%	2,066
2021	6.06%	0.15	33.33%	2,181
2020	7.68%	0.22	110.00%	2,212
2019	6.58%	0.22	50.00%	2,352
2018	9.61%	0.25	78.13%	2,562

*In millions

Standard Life Aberdeen Stock performance

Finally, last moth Standard Life Aberdeen showed a return of -28.80% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials 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 UK and Financial Services firms.