Yahoo Finance Be Sure To Check Out Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:BPFH) Before It Goes Ex-Dividend
It looks like Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:BPFH) is about to go ex-dividend in the next 3 days. You can purchase shares before the 6th of February in order to receive the dividend, which the company will pay on the 21st of February.
Boston Private Financial Holdings's next dividend payment will be US$0.12 per share, and in the last 12 months, the company paid a total of US$0.48 per share. Last year's total dividend payments show that Boston Private Financial Holdings has a trailing yield of 4.2% on the current share price of $11.4. If you buy this business for its dividend, you should have an idea of whether Boston Private Financial Holdings's dividend is reliable and sustainable. We need to see whether the dividend is covered by earnings and if it's growing.
See our latest analysis for Boston Private Financial Holdings
If a company pays out more in dividends than it earned, then the dividend might become unsustainable - hardly an ideal situation. That's why it's good to see Boston Private Financial Holdings paying out a modest 49% of its earnings.
Generally speaking, the lower a company's payout ratios, the more resilient its dividend usually is.
Click here to see the company's payout ratio, plus analyst estimates of its future dividends.
Have Earnings And Dividends Been Growing?
Businesses with strong growth prospects usually make the best dividend payers, because it's easier to grow dividends when earnings per share are improving. If business enters a downturn and the dividend is cut, the company could see its value fall precipitously. With that in mind, we're encouraged by the steady growth at Boston Private Financial Holdings, with earnings per share up 5.5% on average over the last five years.
Another key way to measure a company's dividend prospects is by measuring its historical rate of dividend growth. Since the start of our data, ten years ago, Boston Private Financial Holdings has lifted its dividend by approximately 28% a year on average. We're glad to see dividends rising alongside earnings over a number of years, which may be a sign the company intends to share the growth with shareholders.
To Sum It Up
Is Boston Private Financial Holdings an attractive dividend stock, or better left on the shelf? Boston Private Financial Holdings has seen its earnings per share grow slowly in recent years, and the company reinvests more than half of its profits in the business, which generally bodes well for its future prospects. We think this is a pretty attractive combination, and would be interested in investigating Boston Private Financial Holdings more closely.
Ever wonder what the future holds for Boston Private Financial Holdings? See what the four analysts we track are forecasting, with this visualisation of its historical and future estimated earnings and cash flow
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