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Dividend per share

Cash paid to the holder of one share over the fiscal year, in the currency the company reports in.

Definition

How it is computed here

Formuladividends declared ÷ shares outstanding
UnitCurrency per share
PeriodOne fiscal year, as reported
SourceExtracted from SEC filings; every value on an asset page carries the accounting tag and the filing it came from
Identifierdividendo_por_acao
The limit

What this number does not tell you

This is not dividend yield. Yield is the dividend divided by the share price, and there is no price on this site — so a dividend per share of $5 tells you nothing about the return until you know what the share costs.

Every metric on this site is published with its blind spot stated. A figure without its limit is half a fact.

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In the data

Highest reported dividend per share

From the most recent fiscal year of each company. Only companies reporting in US dollars are ranked here — a figure in yen or won is not larger, it is in another currency.

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