Today, September 13th the Board of Directors of Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $1.27 to $1.30 per share that’s payable October 12, 2023 to holders of record September 27, 2023. This represents a 2.36% increase over the last quarterly dividend.
With current price $94.45 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 5.51%.
Philip Morris is a Dividend Contenders with a 16 year streak of dividend increases. Dividend growth rates for 1, 3, 5 and 10 years are 3.5, 3.0, 3.7 and 4.7 (Dividend Champions.xls)
Since I own 85 shares of PM, this will increase my portfolio's projected annual net dividend income by $7.60.
The increase was lower than I expected, because I expected it to be around 3%, but an increase is always an increase.
This is the tenth dividend increase I've received from Philip Morris since initiating a position January 2014. During this period, the quarterly dividend has risen by a modest 38.3% from $0.94 to $1.30.
This increase raises my YOC to 6.1%.
Summary of 2023 Dividend Increases / Cuts
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What is your opinion about Altria and PM wrt sustainability of dividends? If my calculations are right both companies now pay more dividends than net earnings. I own both companies but am sceptical that they both pay out too much.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of holdings I have a significant larger portion in BAT and just looking at todays numbers BAT looks a lot cheaper. In principle same earnings, appr. same revenue but EV/EBIT is 50% of e.g PM. And payout ratio appr 50% of net earnings.
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Emigrantinvesteraren
Hi Emigrantinvesteraren, I agree that the dividend payout ratio for MO and PM is high and it is possible that at least MO will have to reduce the dividend in the future.
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DH