Yahoo Finance There's A Lot To Like About Teck Resources Limited's (TSE:TECK.B) Upcoming 0.2% Dividend
Regular readers will know that we love our dividends at Simply Wall St, which is why it's exciting to see Teck Resources Limited (TSE:TECK.B) is about to trade ex-dividend in the next 3 days. Investors can purchase shares before the 12th of September in order to be eligible for this dividend, which will be paid on the 30th of September.
Teck Resources's next dividend payment will be CA$0.05 per share. Last year, in total, the company distributed CA$0.30 to shareholders. Based on the last year's worth of payments, Teck Resources has a trailing yield of 1.3% on the current stock price of CA$23.08. Dividends are an important source of income to many shareholders, but the health of the business is crucial to maintaining those dividends. So we need to investigate whether Teck Resources can afford its dividend, and if the dividend could grow.
View our latest analysis for Teck Resources
Dividends are typically paid from company earnings. If a company pays more in dividends than it earned in profit, then the dividend could be unsustainable. Teck Resources is paying out just 4.4% of its profit after tax, which is comfortably low and leaves plenty of breathing room in the case of adverse events. Yet cash flows are even more important than profits for assessing a dividend, so we need to see if the company generated enough cash to pay its distribution. What's good is that dividends were well covered by free cash flow, with the company paying out 6.8% of its cash flow last year.
It's encouraging to see that the dividend is covered by both profit and cash flow. This generally suggests the dividend is sustainable, as long as earnings don't drop precipitously.
Click here to see the company's payout ratio, plus analyst estimates of its future dividends.
Have Earnings And Dividends Been Growing?
Stocks in companies that generate sustainable earnings growth often make the best dividend prospects, as it is easier to lift the dividend when earnings are rising. If business enters a downturn and the dividend is cut, the company could see its value fall precipitously. It's encouraging to see Teck Resources has grown its earnings rapidly, up 22% a year for the past five years. With earnings per share growing rapidly and the company sensibly reinvesting almost all of its profits within the business, Teck Resources looks like a promising growth company.
Many investors will assess a company's dividend performance by evaluating how much the dividend payments have changed over time. Teck Resources has seen its dividend decline 11% per annum on average over the past 10 years, which is not great to see. It's unusual to see earnings per share increasing at the same time as dividends per share have been in decline. We'd hope it's because the company is reinvesting heavily in its business, but it could also suggest business is lumpy.
The Bottom Line
Is Teck Resources an attractive dividend stock, or better left on the shelf? It's great that Teck Resources is growing earnings per share while simultaneously paying out a low percentage of both its earnings and cash flow. It's disappointing to see the dividend has been cut at least once in the past, but as things stand now, the low payout ratio suggests a conservative approach to dividends, which we like. Teck Resources looks solid on this analysis overall, and we'd definitely consider investigating it more closely.
Curious what other investors think of Teck Resources? See what analysts are forecasting, with this visualisation of its historical and future estimated earnings and cash flow .
If you're in the market for dividend stocks, we recommend checking our list of top dividend stocks with a greater than 2% yield and an upcoming dividend.
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