Yahoo Finance BankFinancial (NASDAQ:BFIN) Has Affirmed Its Dividend Of US$0.10
The board of BankFinancial Corporation (NASDAQ:BFIN) has announced that it will pay a dividend of US$0.10 per share on the 27th of August. Based on this payment, the dividend yield on the company's stock will be 3.7%, which is an attractive boost to shareholder returns.
Check out our latest analysis for BankFinancial
BankFinancial's Dividend Is Well Covered By Earnings
A big dividend yield for a few years doesn't mean much if it can't be sustained. The last dividend made up a very large portion of earnings and also represented 75% of free cash flows. This indicates that the company is more focused on returning cash to shareholders than growing the business, but it is still in a reasonable range to continue with.
Earnings per share is forecast to rise by 7.5% over the next year. If the dividend continues growing along recent trends, we estimate the payout ratio could reach 84%, which is on the higher side, but certainly still feasible.
Dividend Volatility
The company's dividend history has been marked by instability, with at least 1 cut in the last 10 years. Since 2011, the dividend has gone from US$0.28 to US$0.40. This implies that the company grew its distributions at a yearly rate of about 3.6% over that duration. It's encouraging to see some dividend growth, but the dividend has been cut at least once, and the size of the cut would eliminate most of the growth anyway, which makes this less attractive as an income investment.
We Could See BankFinancial's Dividend Growing
Growing earnings per share could be a mitigating factor when considering the past fluctuations in the dividend. BankFinancial has seen EPS rising for the last five years, at 7.5% per annum. The payout ratio is very much on the higher end, which could mean that the growth rate will slow down in the future, and that could flow through to the dividend as well.
Our Thoughts On BankFinancial's Dividend
Overall, it's nice to see a consistent dividend payment, but we think that longer term, the current level of payment might be unsustainable. The track record isn't great, and the payments are a bit high to be considered sustainable. We would probably look elsewhere for an income investment.
Investors generally tend to favour companies with a consistent, stable dividend policy as opposed to those operating an irregular one. Still, investors need to consider a host of other factors, apart from dividend payments, when analysing a company. Taking the debate a bit further, we've identified 2 warning signs for BankFinancial that investors need to be conscious of moving forward. We have also put together a list of global stocks with a solid dividend.
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