Yahoo Finance Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE:TFC) Passed Our Checks, And It's About To Pay A US$0.52 Dividend
It looks like Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE:TFC) is about to go ex-dividend in the next 3 days. The ex-dividend date is usually set to be one business day before the record date which is the cut-off date on which you must be present on the company's books as a shareholder in order to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is important because any transaction on a stock needs to have been settled before the record date in order to be eligible for a dividend. Accordingly, Truist Financial investors that purchase the stock on or after the 11th of August will not receive the dividend, which will be paid on the 1st of September.
The company's next dividend payment will be US$0.52 per share, on the back of last year when the company paid a total of US$2.08 to shareholders. Calculating the last year's worth of payments shows that Truist Financial has a trailing yield of 4.2% on the current share price of $50.1. We love seeing companies pay a dividend, but it's also important to be sure that laying the golden eggs isn't going to kill our golden goose! That's why we should always check whether the dividend payments appear sustainable, and if the company is growing.
View our latest analysis for Truist Financial
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 Truist Financial paying out a modest 43% of its earnings.
Companies that pay out less in dividends than they earn in profits generally have more sustainable dividends. The lower the payout ratio, the more wiggle room the business has before it could be forced to cut the dividend.
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. If earnings fall far enough, the company could be forced to cut its dividend. With that in mind, we're encouraged by the steady growth at Truist Financial, with earnings per share up 9.7% 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. Truist Financial has delivered an average of 13% per year annual increase in its dividend, based on the past 10 years of dividend payments. 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.
Final Takeaway
Should investors buy Truist Financial for the upcoming dividend? Truist Financial 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. Overall, Truist Financial looks like a promising dividend stock in this analysis, and we think it would be worth investigating further.
Ever wonder what the future holds for Truist Financial? See what the 15 analysts we track are forecasting, with this visualisation of its historical and future estimated earnings and cash flow
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