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Previously, only regular dividends were displayed on DividendStocks.Cash. Special dividends were missing. Luckily, special dividends are now available for all dividend payments of the past.
Special dividends are displayed in light blue
Where it makes sense, special dividends are also included in the calculation of metrics:
| Metric | Importance of special dividends |
| Dividend CAGRs | Special divdend gets ignored |
| Dividend stability | Special divdend gets ignored |
| Dividend yield | Special dividend included in calculation |
| Payout-ratios | Special dividend included in calculation |
| Years of dividend increase | Special divdend gets ignored |
Special dividends are not as rare as you might think. For example, 132 of the 599 dividend payers on DividendStocks.Cash have paid out at least one special dividend over the past 10 years, which corresponds to 22 percent of all companies.
The following list shows the proportion of the special dividends of the last 10 years for the 50 companies with the highest proportion of special dividends:
| Name | CountryUS | Percentage of special dividends % |
|---|---|---|
| IPG Photonics | United States | 100 |
| Ryanair Holdings PLC | Ireland | 100 |
| T-Mobile Us Inc | United States | 92.2 |
| RLI Corporation | United States | 73.7 |
| Symantec Corp | United States | 59.7 |
| W.R. Berkley | United States | 56.7 |
| Costco Wholesale Corp | United States | 56.6 |
| Aurelius | Germany | 53.8 |
| Germany | 53.6 | |
| Franklin Resources | United States | 52.7 |
| L Brands | United States | 51.8 |
| Paccar Inc | United States | 51.5 |
| Commerzbank AG | Germany | 50 |
| Dish Network Corp-A | United States | 50 |
| Ulta Beauty | United States | 50 |
| Bet-At-Home | Germany | 49.3 |
| CME Group | United States | 48.8 |
| Kla-Tencor Corporation | United States | 48.5 |
| Atoss Software | Germany | 45.9 |
| Semperit | Austria | 37.4 |
| Spirax-Sarco | Great Britain | 36.3 |
| Hermes International | France | 36.2 |
| Lancaster Colony | United States | 36.2 |
| Iron Mountain | United States | 36 |
| Prosegur | Spain | 34.9 |
| Next Plc | Great Britain | 33.8 |
| Brown Forman | United States | 33.8 |
| Swedish Match | Sweden | 33 |
| Cracker Barrel Old Cty. St. | United States | 30.8 |
| D'Ieteren | Belgium | 28.8 |
| Sixt SE | Germany | 26 |
| Thor Industries | United States | 24.5 |
| Domino's Pizza | United States | 24.5 |
| Takkt | Germany | 23 |
| Swiss Re | Switzerland | 22.7 |
| Sirius XM Holdings | United States | 22.7 |
| RTL Group | Luxembourg | 22.6 |
| Hannover Rück | Germany | 21.1 |
| Secunet Security | Germany | 19.9 |
| Compass Group | Great Britain | 19.4 |
| Lenzing | Austria | 19.3 |
| Inditex | Spain | 18.4 |
| Rollins | United States | 16.7 |
| Nokia | Finland | 15.8 |
| Main Street Capital | United States | 15.3 |
| Kinepolis Group | Belgium | 14.6 |
| T. Rowe Price Group | United States | 14.4 |
| Iberdrola SA | Spain | 14.3 |
| Geberit | Switzerland | 13.8 |
| Mowi ASA (Marine Harvest) | Norway | 13.3 |
Special dividends as a integral part of DividendStocks.Cash
The special dividends are now displayed wherever the information is essential. This means in the following tools, which are available either partially or completely free of charge:
- The screener (for finding stocks with long-term profit growth)
- The Dividend Calendar (planning of dividends for the entire year)
- The Dividend Turbo (determination of buy and sell signals with dividend alarm)
- Dividend Aristocrats (over 100 international dividend aristocrats)
- High Yield Stocks (the 100 stock with the highest dividend)
Special dividends are also displayed in the Dividenden Turbo and included in the calculation of the dividend yield
Special dividends are a part of your investment strategy
In practice, special dividends are either ignored or included with regular dividends. Neither is optimal. In the first case the dividend is too low, in the second case the differentiation is missing as an important indication to take a closer look at the company and its dividend policy. We are therefore particularly pleased that our efforts to integrate the special dividends into the platform of DividendStocks.Cash have been successful.
