Metro Pacific Investments Dividend yield

Metro Pacific Investments is part of Gas Water and Multiutilities business, which is part of Utilities industry. Metro Pacific Investments is a company from Philippines, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Metro Pacific Investments stock dividend

Metro Pacific Investments paid a total dividend of 3,730 million PHP last year, for a market value of 144,915 millions (Market Cap 55,575 millions). Metro Pacific Investments dividend per share is 0.13 PHP, and his stock market price 5.05 PHP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Metro Pacific Investments has a dividend yield of 2.50%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Philippines. It is also lower than average of Utilities industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Metro Pacific Investments stocks dividend with other Gas Water and Multiutilities companies or other of the high Philippines dividend stocks list.

Metro Pacific Investments Dividend Payout

About the ability of Metro Pacific Investments to maintain his current dividend of PHP 0.13 per share, an amount that accounts for 2.50%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Metro Pacific Investments payout on ernings is currently 24.53%, which is lower than the market average and companies of Utilities industry, which are 39.34% and 60.08% respectively. Both figures lead us to believe that there is confidence that Metro Pacific Investmentscan maintain his current dividend.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this last amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Metro Pacific Investments is PHP 0.71 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of PHP 0.13, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Metro Pacific Investments, compared againt world market average, Philippines companies, Utilities industry and Gas Water and Multiutilities sector companies.

Metro Pacific Investments Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Metro Pacific Investments's dividend stock, both in percentage and in PHP, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year	Yield	PHP	Paypout	Shares*
Present	2.50%	0.13	24.53%	28,696
2022	2.99%	0.10	25.00%	29,041
2021	2.12%	0.08	23.53%	30,070
2020	2.58%	0.11	-157.14%	30,669
2019	3.18%	0.11	17.74%	31,515
2018	2.38%	0.11	20.37%	31,513
2017	1.50%	0.10	20.83%	31,504

*In millions

Metro Pacific Investments Stock performance

Finally, last moth Metro Pacific Investments showed a return of 3.70% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -2.79% of Utilities firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 35.40% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Philippines and Gas Water and Multiutilities firms.