carsales.com.au Ltd Dividend yield

carsales.com.au Ltd is part of Media business, which is part of Consumer Services industry. carsales.com.au Ltd is a company from Australia, and his stocks are publicly traded.

carsales.com.au Ltd stock dividend

carsales.com.au Ltd paid a total dividend of 200 million AUD last year, for a market value of 10,835 millions (Market Cap 10,342 millions). carsales.com.au Ltd dividend per share is 0.53 AUD, and his stock market price 28.74 AUD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, carsales.com.au Ltd has a dividend yield of 1.84%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Australia. It is also lower than average of Consumer Services industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare carsales.com.au Ltd stocks dividend with other Media companies or other of the best Australia dividend stocks list.

carsales.com.au Ltd Dividend Payout

About the ability of carsales.com.au Ltd to maintain his current dividend of AUD 0.53 per share, an amount that accounts for 1.84%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). carsales.com.au Ltd payout on ernings is currently 27.04%, which is lower than the market average and companies of Consumer Services industry, which are 39.34% and 31.45% respectively. Both figures lead us to believe that there is confidence that carsales.com.au Ltdcan 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 carsales.com.au Ltd is AUD 0.67 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of AUD 0.53, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of carsales.com.au Ltd, compared againt world market average, Australia companies, Consumer Services industry and Media sector companies.

carsales.com.au Ltd Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of carsales.com.au Ltd'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*
Present	1.84%	0.53	27.04%	377
2022	2.17%	0.45	81.82%	351
2021	1.77%	0.44	78.57%	282
2020	2.35%	0.47	83.93%	246

*In millions

carsales.com.au Ltd Stock performance

Finally, last moth carsales.com.au Ltd showed a return of 15.60% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.06% of Consumer Services firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 28.10% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Australia and Media firms.