Unilever Dividend yield

Unilever is part of Personal Goods business, which is part of Consumer Goods industry. Unilever is a company from UK, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Unilever stock dividend

Unilever paid a total dividend of 3,788 million GBP last year, for a market value of 102,061 millions (Market Cap 101,275 millions). Unilever dividend per share is 1.50 GBP, and his stock market price 40.42 GBP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Unilever has a dividend yield of 3.72%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from UK. It is also bigger than average of Consumer Goods 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 Unilever stocks dividend with other Personal Goods companies or other of the best UK dividend stocks list.

Unilever Dividend Payout

About the ability of Unilever to maintain his current dividend of GBP 1.50 per share, an amount that accounts for 3.72%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Unilever payout on ernings is currently 109.49%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Consumer Goods industry, which are 39.34% and 40.18% respectively. Both figures show that Unilever 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 Unilever is GBP 1.19 per share, which is lower than the dividend per share paid by the company of GBP 1.50, 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 Unilever, compared againt world market average, UK companies, Consumer Goods industry and Personal Goods sector companies.

Unilever Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Unilever'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	3.72%	1.50	109.49%	2,525
2022	3.48%	1.46	137.74%	2,556
2021	3.74%	1.48	145.10%	2,572
2020	3.31%	1.45	140.78%	2,621
2019	3.26%	1.42	38.17%	1,168
2018	3.24%	1.33	60.73%	1,171
2017	2.95%	1.22	67.03%	1,238
2016	3.27%	1.05	71.92%	1,284
2015	3.08%	0.87	49.15%	1,284

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Unilever dividend stock, and compare it with the average of UK stocks and that of the Personal Goods stocks.

Unilever Stock performance

Finally, last moth Unilever showed a return of -3.60% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -1.86% of Consumer Goods firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 3.00% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for UK and Personal Goods firms.