Shareholder yield: dividends plus buybacks over market cap

Shareholder yield: dividends plus buybacks over market cap

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Valuation — What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

How it is worked out

(Dividends paid + share buybacks) ÷ market capitalisation × 100

Cash handed back to shareholders as a percentage of what they pay for the shares. Buybacks count alongside dividends because retiring shares raises every remaining share's claim on the business.

How to read it

what actually reached shareholders. A trailing twelve months, so a one-off buyback lands in it whole

Which figures it needs

Computed from 2 figures taken from the filing:

• dividends_paid
• buybacks

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
• PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock
• PaymentsForRepurchaseOfEquity
• PaymentsToAcquireTreasuryStock

Whether it counts

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