ALC Dividend Calculator
Alcon Inc. yields 0.55%, below the 2.91% median across US dividend payers. The income from ALC is a smaller part of the story than it would be on a high-yield holding, and the figures below deliberately capture only that part.
ALC paid $0.36 per share over the last twelve months on a annual schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
ALC
Alcon Inc.
0.55%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in ALC pays you
$55.24
per year
- Paid once a year
- $55.24
- Monthly average
- $4.60
- Shares bought
- 153.75
- Payments a year
- 1
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$552.43
Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.
ALC dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 0.55%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $5.52 | $5.52 | $0.46 |
| $5,000 | $27.62 | $27.62 | $2.30 |
| $10,000 | $55.24 | $55.24 | $4.60 |
| $25,000 | $138.11 | $138.11 | $11.51 |
| $50,000 | $276.21 | $276.21 | $23.02 |
| $100,000 | $552.43 | $552.43 | $46.04 |
ALC with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in ALC, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.
- After 10 years
- $10,566
- After 20 years
- $11,165
- After 30 years
- $11,797
$10,552 taking the income as cash
$11,105 taking the income as cash
$11,657 taking the income as cash
What makes up ALC's 0.55% yield
ALC paid $0.36 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $65.04, which is where the 0.55% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
A below-median yield is not the same as a weak dividend. It commonly means earnings are being retained and reinvested, or that the share price has risen faster than the payment — in the second case the holder's income did not fall, the yield did. Income is one component of the return on ALC and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.
Healthcare dividends compete for the same cash as research spending, which is why yields in the sector are typically modest even at large companies. The sector-specific risk to the payment is patent expiry: revenue concentrated in one or two products can step down sharply rather than decline gradually.
When ALC pays, and what that changes
ALC pays annual, which is unusual among US-listed payers and has two consequences the annual figure hides. The "monthly average" column is an average and nothing more — no cash arrives in most months — and the gap between payments means a holder buying between them waits longer for the first one.
Infrequent payments also compound marginally more slowly when reinvested, since each distribution spends longer as cash before it is put back to work. The reinvestment figures above use ALC's real schedule rather than assuming quarterly payments.
Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. ALC's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is ALC's dividend covered by earnings?
ALC's payout ratio of 0.20 means roughly 20% of earnings go to the dividend, leaving the rest retained. A margin that size is what allows a payment to be maintained through a weaker year without being funded from borrowing.
Demand in this kind of business holds up across a cycle, so the earnings behind the ratio move less than the market's average and the figure is reasonably representative rather than a snapshot of a good year.
The figures hold the dividend flat. ALC has raised its payment in each of the last 4 years, which is a shorter record than the multi-decade streaks found among the longest-standing payers, and not yet long enough to have been tested across a full cycle.
ALC dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in ALC pay in dividends?
- At ALC's current yield of 0.55%, $10,000 pays about $55.24 a year — roughly $55.24 per payment, paid annual, or $4.60 a month averaged out.
- What would ALC be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in ALC would grow to about $10,566 after 10 years, against $10,552 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
- How often does ALC pay dividends?
- ALC pays annual — 1 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is ALC's dividend guaranteed?
- No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check ALC's full payment history before relying on any of it.
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Alcon Inc. is a common stock trading at $65.04 per share, paying annual. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.