Dividend coverage rankings
Recomputed when a company files — checked three times each business day.
The 1,728 companies that pay a dividend, ordered the ways that decide anything: how well the dividend is covered, where a company stands against the ones like it, and the two places where the denominators disagree with each other. Every figure behind every position is computed from the company’s own SEC filing.
By what the rating is made of
- Coverage ratingEvery covered company, best coverage first.
- Peer standingDoes a company hand out more of its money than the companies like it?
- DirectionIs the dividend getting easier or harder to afford than it was?
- StabilitySteady, or all over the place, year to year?
By band
The coverage rating, cut into five. A company sits in exactly one.
- Comfortable79Rated comfortable on dividend coverage.
- Adequate582Rated adequate on dividend coverage.
- Tight446Rated tight on dividend coverage.
- Strained287Rated strained on dividend coverage.
- Not covered288Rated not covered on dividend coverage.
Where the bases disagree
One dividend, two denominators, opposite answers. These are the companies a single payout ratio would describe wrongly.
- Covered on earnings, not on the basis that appliesEarnings says the dividend is covered. The denominator that fits the company says it is not.
- Uncovered on earnings, covered on the basis that appliesEarnings says it is not covered. The denominator that fits the company says it is.
Every company also has its own page, with the arithmetic and the filing behind each figure — the company index.