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CH. Robinson Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ:CHRW): Ex-Dividend Is In 3 Days, Should You Buy?

Attention dividend hunters! CH. Robinson Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ:CHRW) will be distributing its dividend of $0.46 per share on the 29 June 2018, and will start trading ex-dividend in 3 days time on the 31 May 2018. What does this mean for current shareholders and potential investors? Below, I will explain how holding C.H. Robinson Worldwide can impact your portfolio income stream, by analysing the stock’s most recent financial data and dividend attributes. View our latest analysis for C.H. Robinson Worldwide

How I analyze a dividend stock

If you are a dividend investor, you should always assess these five key metrics:

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  • Is its annual yield among the top 25% of dividend payers?

  • Does it consistently pay out dividends without missing a payment or significantly cutting payout?

  • Has dividend per share risen in the past couple of years?

  • Is it able to pay the current rate of dividends from its earnings?

  • Will it have the ability to keep paying its dividends going forward?

NasdaqGS:CHRW Historical Dividend Yield May 27th 18
NasdaqGS:CHRW Historical Dividend Yield May 27th 18

How well does C.H. Robinson Worldwide fit our criteria?

The company currently pays out 48.61% of its earnings as a dividend, according to its trailing twelve-month data, which means that the dividend is covered by earnings. In the near future, analysts are predicting a payout ratio of 44.92%, leading to a dividend yield of 2.31%. Moreover, EPS should increase to $4.5. If dividend is a key criteria in your investment consideration, then you need to make sure the dividend stock you’re eyeing out is reliable in its payments. In the case of CHRW it has increased its DPS from $0.88 to $1.84 in the past 10 years. During this period it has not missed a payment, as one would expect for a company increasing its dividend. These are all positive signs of a great, reliable dividend stock. Compared to its peers, C.H. Robinson Worldwide generates a yield of 2.09%, which is on the low-side for Logistics stocks.

Next Steps:

With this in mind, I definitely rank C.H. Robinson Worldwide as a strong dividend stock, and makes it worth further research for anyone who likes steady income generation from their portfolio. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, I urge potential investors to try and get a good understanding of the underlying business and its fundamentals before deciding on an investment. Below, I’ve compiled three fundamental factors you should further examine:

  1. Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for CHRW’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for CHRW’s outlook.

  2. Valuation: What is CHRW worth today? Even if the stock is a cash cow, it’s not worth an infinite price. The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether CHRW is currently mispriced by the market.

  3. Other 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 pass 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.