Ranked from the filings of the
companies this site has read, under
.
50 of them report a figure for this; the rest are absent rather than
ranked last, because a filing that does not carry a number is not a company that scores
badly on it.
The share of profit already promised to the dividend. A low figure leaves room to absorb a bad year without cutting it; a company paying nothing reads zero, which makes this a measure of flexibility rather than of income.
low is good, read as committed cash rather than as generosity: a company paying nothing has nothing to cut in a bad year and scores at the top. That makes it a poor measure of income and a fair one of flexibility
It is not advice, and a high place is not a recommendation. A company can lead on one
measure and fail on every other; that is the reason this site scores five dimensions
rather than one and lets you weigh them yourself.
It also ranks only what has been read. A company whose filings are not in this database
cannot appear here however well it would have done, and a company whose filing does not
tag this figure is absent rather than last.