Div. growth

Dividend growth

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Growth — Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

How it is worked out

Total dividends paid, latest fiscal year against the prior one

On the total paid rather than per share, so a company holding its per-share dividend flat while the share count shrinks reads as cutting it. Unmeasurable for anyone paying no dividend.

How to read it

on the total paid rather than per share, so a company buying back stock while holding the dividend per share flat reads as shrinking it. Unmeasurable for anyone paying no dividend

Which figures it needs

Computed from 1 figure taken from the filing:

• dividends_paid

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

• PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock
• PaymentsOfDividends
• PaymentsOfDividendsMinorityInterest
• DividendsPaidClassifiedAsFinancingActivities

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Growth on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.