Ahold Delhaize Dividend yield

Ahold Delhaize is part of Food and Drug Retailers business, which is part of Consumer Services industry. Ahold Delhaize is a company from Netherlands, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Ahold Delhaize stock dividend

Ahold Delhaize paid a total dividend of 1,036 million EUR last year, for a market value of 28,943 millions (Market Cap 28,947 millions). Ahold Delhaize dividend per share is 1.08 EUR, and his stock market price 30.18 EUR.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Ahold Delhaize has a dividend yield of 3.58%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Netherlands. It is also bigger than average of Consumer Services 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 Ahold Delhaize stocks dividend with other Food and Drug Retailers companies or other of the high Netherlands dividend stocks list.

Ahold Delhaize Dividend Payout

About the ability of Ahold Delhaize to maintain his current dividend of EUR 1.08 per share, an amount that accounts for 3.58%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Ahold Delhaize payout on ernings is currently 34.73%, which is lower than the market average, but higher than companies of Consumer Services industry, which are 39.34% and 31.45% respectively. Both figures show that Ahold Delhaize is in a good position to keep maintaining his 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 Ahold Delhaize is EUR 6.29 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of EUR 1.08, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Ahold Delhaize, compared againt world market average, Netherlands companies, Consumer Services industry and Food and Drug Retailers sector companies.

Ahold Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Ahold's dividend stock, both in percentage and in EUR, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year	Yield	EUR	Paypout	Shares*
Present	3.58%	1.08	34.73%	959
2022	3.65%	0.98	37.26%	988
2021	2.75%	0.83	47.43%	974
2020	4.15%	0.96	50.26%	1,072
2019	4.49%	1.00	50.25%	1,022
2018	2.85%	0.63	33.16%	1,083
2017	3.11%	0.57	72.15%	1,272
2016	2.97%	0.55	71.43%	1,265
2015	2.33%	0.48	63.16%	894

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Ahold Delhaize dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Netherlands stocks and that of the Food and Drug Retailers stocks.

Ahold Delhaize Stock performance

Finally, last moth Ahold Delhaize showed a return of -3.90% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.06% of Consumer Services firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 10.10% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Netherlands and Food and Drug Retailers firms.