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  S&P 500 Dividend Payout Has Fully Recovered From The Financial Crisis
Posted Under: Broader Stock Market • Stock Dividends
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View from the Observation Deck

  1. The chart above offers a nice before and after look at the recovery in the stock dividends distributed by the companies in the S&P 500.
  2. Quarterly dividend payouts did not surpass the $57.8 billion average (see chart) until Q2'11.
  3. The $67.3 billion in S&P 500 dividend payouts in Q2'12 eclipsed the $67.1 billion in Q4'07 (prior to crisis).
  4. Companies have the capital to raise their payouts. Non-financial firms in the S&P 500 hold a near-record $1.12 trillion in cash.
  5. The dividend payout-ratio (% of a dollar's worth of earnings paid out as a dividend) for these companies has been in the 30-35% range for a few years. Historically, the ratio has been closer to 50%.
  6. Demand for equity income remains robust. Lipper data shows that the Equity Income fund category reported net inflows totaling $20.3 billion year-to-date through August.
  7. That is by far the most for any U.S. Diversified Equity fund category. The entire universe of U.S. Diversified Equity funds reported net outflows totaling $27.6 billion.
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 @ 3:27 PM • Post Link Print this post Printer Friendly

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