Yahoo Finance 4 Days Left Until Qube Holdings Limited (ASX:QUB) Trades Ex-Dividend,
If you are interested in cashing in on Qube Holdings Limited’s (ASX:QUB) upcoming dividend of AU$0.048 per share, you only have 4 days left to buy the shares before its ex-dividend date, 18 September 2018, in time for dividends payable on the 19 October 2018. Investors looking for higher income-generating stocks to add to their portfolio should keep reading, as I examine Qube Holdings’s latest financial data to analyse its dividend characteristics.
Check out our latest analysis for Qube Holdings
5 checks you should do on a dividend stock
When assessing a stock as a potential addition to my dividend Portfolio, I look at these five areas:
Is it the top 25% annual dividend yield payer?
Does it consistently pay out dividends without missing a payment of significantly cutting payout?
Has dividend per share amount increased over the past?
Does earnings amply cover its dividend payments?
Based on future earnings growth, will it be able to continue to payout dividend at the current rate?
How does Qube Holdings fare?
Qube Holdings has a trailing twelve-month payout ratio of 44.1%, meaning the dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Going forward, analysts expect QUB’s payout to increase to 68.5% of its earnings, which leads to a dividend yield of 2.3%. However, EPS is forecasted to fall to A$0.077 in the upcoming year. Therefore, although payout is expected to increase, the fall in earnings may not equate to higher dividend income.
When considering the sustainability of dividends, it is also worth checking the cash flow of a company. Cash flow is important because companies with strong cash flow can usually sustain higher payout ratios.
If there’s one type of stock you want to be reliable, it’s dividend stocks and their stable income-generating ability. Whilst its per-share payments have increased during the past 10 years, there has been some hiccups. Shareholders would have seen a few years of reduced payments in this time.
In terms of its peers, Qube Holdings produces a yield of 2.0%, which is on the low-side for Infrastructure stocks.
Next Steps:
Taking all the above into account, Qube Holdings is a complicated pick for dividend investors given that there are a couple of positive things about it as well as negative. But if you are not exclusively a dividend investor, the stock could still be an interesting investment opportunity. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, you should always research extensively before deciding whether or not a stock is an appropriate investment for you. I always recommend analysing the company’s fundamentals and underlying business before making an investment decision. Below, I’ve compiled three relevant factors you should look at:
Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for QUB’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for QUB’s outlook.
Historical Performance: What has QUB’s returns been like over the past? Go into more detail in the past track record analysis and take a look at the free visual representations of our analysis for more clarity.
Dividend Rockstars: Are there better dividend payers with stronger fundamentals out there? Check out our free list of these great stocks here.
To help readers see past the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements.
The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned. For errors that warrant correction please contact the editor at editorial-team@simplywallst.com.
