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 cash dividend as a return on the share price. Buybacks are not in this one; shareholder yield adds them.
cash in hand rather than cash returned: a company buying back stock instead scores nothing here and well on shareholder yield. Reads zero for anyone paying no dividend, which is most of a growth list
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.