Yahoo Finance Sienna Senior Living (TSE:SIA) Has Announced A Dividend Of CA$0.078
Sienna Senior Living Inc.'s (TSE:SIA) investors are due to receive a payment of CA$0.078 per share on 15th of December. Based on this payment, the dividend yield on the company's stock will be 8.2%, which is an attractive boost to shareholder returns.
Check out our latest analysis for Sienna Senior Living
Sienna Senior Living Is Paying Out More Than It Is Earning
A big dividend yield for a few years doesn't mean much if it can't be sustained. Based on the last payment, the company wasn't making enough to cover what it was paying to shareholders. Without profits and cash flows increasing, it would be difficult for the company to continue paying the dividend at this level.
If the company can't turn things around, EPS could fall by 8.1% over the next year. Assuming the dividend continues along recent trends, we believe the payout ratio could reach 340%, which could put the dividend under pressure if earnings don't start to improve.
Sienna Senior Living Has A Solid Track Record
The company has an extended history of paying stable dividends. The annual payment during the last 10 years was CA$0.85 in 2012, and the most recent fiscal year payment was CA$0.936. Dividend payments have been growing, but very slowly over the period. While the consistency in the dividend payments is impressive, we think the relatively slow rate of growth is less attractive.
Dividend Growth Is Doubtful
The company's investors will be pleased to have been receiving dividend income for some time. However, initial appearances might be deceiving. It's not great to see that Sienna Senior Living's earnings per share has fallen at approximately 8.1% per year over the past five years. Declining earnings will inevitably lead to the company paying a lower dividend in line with lower profits.
The Dividend Could Prove To Be Unreliable
Overall, we don't think this company makes a great dividend stock, even though the dividend wasn't cut this year. We can't deny that the payments have been very stable, but we are a little bit worried about the very high payout ratio. We would probably look elsewhere for an income investment.
Investors generally tend to favour companies with a consistent, stable dividend policy as opposed to those operating an irregular one. At the same time, there are other factors our readers should be conscious of before pouring capital into a stock. Just as an example, we've come across 5 warning signs for Sienna Senior Living you should be aware of, and 3 of them are concerning. If you are a dividend investor, you might also want to look at our curated list of high yield dividend stocks.
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