The inexorable rise in inflation further limits investors’ ability to generate positive real returns and in this context the dividend is presented as a good option for investors. After the payments from BBVA and Bankinter, Santander and Inditex will be put in the starting box in the first days of November to reward the loyalty of their shareholders. Behind and before the end of the year, around a dozen listed companies have plans to distribute coupons. Overall, the listed companies will just barely pay out 4 billion euros before the end of 2022.
“You have to be selective when choosing a security because of its high dividend yield. The first thing to analyze is the visibility that its results offer, all the more so in an environment of slowing economic growth like the current one. It is also necessary to analyze the ability of these companies to regularly generate free cash and their dividend payout history,” recommends Juan José Fernández Figares, head of analysis at Link Securities.
The calendar of the investors already belongs to these payments Santander bank. The company will soon reward the loyalty of its shareholders. The financial company will buy back shares for 979 million euros and pay a dividend of 5.83 cents per share on November 2. The bank will use 40% of the profit generated in the first half of 2022 to reward shareholders with an equal share buyback and cash dividend payment, in line with its usual policy. Santander made a profit of 4,894 million euros in the first six months of the year.
In this way, the bank will distribute 20% of this result (around 979 million) in the form of a cash dividend, which will be paid from November 2, 2022. The payment that shareholders receive is 5.83 cents per share, or 20.2%. higher than last year (then the company made an initial payment of 4.85 cents per share).
Because the results of the first half of 2022 were 33% higher than those of the same period of the previous year. Also because the number of shares outstanding is currently lower than last year, as the company has amortized the buybacks made under the 2021 program totaling 1,700 million in two tranches. As stated by the company, the last market day entitled to payment of the dividend is October 28, as the securities are already listed on the following business day, the 31st of the same month, without any right to compensation. In the same vein, Santander will begin a share buyback for the same amount (979 million) it hopes to begin “once the appropriate regulatory approval is received.”
The same day as Santander, the payment of index. The Galician textile group will pay two dividends on November 2nd, a special dividend of EUR 0.30 gross and an additional dividend of EUR 0.165 gross per share. Overall, the textile company pays out EUR 0.465 gross per title, which means a total expenditure of just over EUR 950 million.
The textile company announced in July at the first general meeting of shareholders, with Marta Ortega as President, that it would pay a special dividend of €0.40 per share in 2023, to be added to the ordinary dividend for fiscal 2022. That means 33% more than the EUR 0.30 per share in the same year.
The shareholders of Fluidra You are lucky because in the first days of November you will also receive a voucher. The company will pay out €0.42 per share on November 3 based on its 2022 results. The last person to buy and collect this dividend is Monday, October 31st. It is the second payout this year from the company specializing in swimming pools, having already paid a first dividend of 0.43 euros per share in July. prosegur Y Prosegur Cash who make four payments a year will also pay out their shareholders in November, according to BME forecasts.
Other banks are in consensus forecasts to pay out a coupon before the end of the year. Sabadell Bank is one of them with an estimated gross payment of EUR 0.015 gross per share, which Bloomberg estimates would be paid out to shareholders in December.
With you, phone There are plans to give out a coupon and it will be another of the biggest payouts. According to the forecast, the payout per share is EUR 0.15 gross, which means a payout of EUR 866 million.
In case of naturally Y Enagas, payments forecast by Bloomberg consensus are estimated before year-end. In the first case, the estimated payout is 0.56 euros gross per share, after making two payments this year: one of 0.30 euros in August and another of 0.50 euros in May and in the second case Enagás.
The insurer for his part Mapfre who also usually pays a coupon in the last month of the year, pays 0.063 euros. In May, the company paid out another $0.0857 with an estimated dividend yield of 9%.
Additionally, there are a good handful of stocks awaiting confirmation of dividend payments in the latter part of the year. This is the case for stocks such as Prosegur, Ferrovial, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Merlin, Alantra, Elecnor, Ence, Atresmedia, Faes Farma or Bankinter, which on these dates must pay out their shareholders via dividends.