Yahoo Finance Here's What We Like About H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE:FUL)'s Upcoming Dividend
Some investors rely on dividends for growing their wealth, and if you're one of those dividend sleuths, you might be intrigued to know that H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE:FUL) is about to go ex-dividend in just 3 days. You can purchase shares before the 29th of January in order to receive the dividend, which the company will pay on the 13th of February.
H.B. Fuller's next dividend payment will be US$0.16 per share, and in the last 12 months, the company paid a total of US$0.64 per share. Based on the last year's worth of payments, H.B. Fuller stock has a trailing yield of around 1.3% on the current share price of $48.35. If you buy this business for its dividend, you should have an idea of whether H.B. Fuller's dividend is reliable and sustainable. So we need to check whether the dividend payments are covered, and if earnings are growing.
Check out our latest analysis for H.B. Fuller
Dividends are usually paid out of company profits, so if a company pays out more than it earned then its dividend is usually at greater risk of being cut. H.B. Fuller is paying out just 25% of its profit after tax, which is comfortably low and leaves plenty of breathing room in the case of adverse events.
Click here to see the company's payout ratio, plus analyst estimates of its future dividends.
Have Earnings And Dividends Been Growing?
Companies with consistently growing earnings per share generally make the best dividend stocks, as they usually find it easier to grow dividends per share. Investors love dividends, so if earnings fall and the dividend is reduced, expect a stock to be sold off heavily at the same time. That's why it's comforting to see H.B. Fuller's earnings have been skyrocketing, up 21% per annum for the past five years. H.B. Fuller looks like a real growth company, with earnings per share growing at a cracking pace and the company reinvesting most of its profits in the business.
Many investors will assess a company's dividend performance by evaluating how much the dividend payments have changed over time. H.B. Fuller has delivered an average of 8.9% per year annual increase in its dividend, based on the past ten years of dividend payments. It's encouraging to see the company lifting dividends while earnings are growing, suggesting at least some corporate interest in rewarding shareholders.
The Bottom Line
Is H.B. Fuller worth buying for its dividend? When companies are growing rapidly and retaining a majority of the profits within the business, it's usually a sign that reinvesting earnings creates more value than paying dividends to shareholders. Perhaps even more importantly - this can sometimes signal management is focused on the long term future of the business. We think this is a pretty attractive combination, and would be interested in investigating H.B. Fuller more closely.
Wondering what the future holds for H.B. Fuller? See what the seven analysts we track are forecasting, with this visualisation of its historical and future estimated earnings and cash flow
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