Dividend Aristocrat
A company with a long record of increasing regular dividends, often used as a quality and income-stock screen.
Dividend coverage terms for payout ratios, preferred dividend coverage, dividend safety, and dividend aristocrats.
Dividend Coverage and Payout terms explain how stock distributions are declared, dated, paid, reinvested, taxed, measured, and compared.
Use this branch when a stock term changes dividend entitlement, cash received, reinvestment, payment status, tax character, yield, payout coverage, or dividend policy interpretation.
| Term | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Dividend Aristocrat | Dividend income, entitlement, payment timing, reinvestment, tax character, yield, payout, or policy terms. |
| Dividend Coverage Ratio | Dividend income, entitlement, payment timing, reinvestment, tax character, yield, payout, or policy terms. |
| Dividend Payout Ratio | Dividend income, entitlement, payment timing, reinvestment, tax character, yield, payout, or policy terms. |
| Preferred Dividend Coverage | Dividend income, entitlement, payment timing, reinvestment, tax character, yield, payout, or policy terms. |
Check declaration date, record date, ex-dividend date, payment date, amount, currency, share class, tax character, payout source, reinvestment election, and whether the dividend is regular, special, or omitted.
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A company with a long record of increasing regular dividends, often used as a quality and income-stock screen.
A measure of how many times earnings or cash flow can cover dividend payments.
The share of earnings paid out as dividends, used to assess payout sustainability and reinvestment capacity.
A coverage measure showing how comfortably earnings can meet preferred dividend obligations.