GPN Dividend Calculator

GPN paid $1.00 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $86.49, which is where the 1.16% 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 GPN and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.

Bank and insurer dividends are constrained by capital requirements as well as by earnings — a regulator can restrict distributions in a stress scenario regardless of what the business earned. Payments here have historically moved sharply in both directions around credit cycles.

GPN pays quarterly, the standard schedule for US-listed payers, so the "per payment" column is one quarter of the annual figure and the "monthly average" column is a smoothed figure rather than a description of when cash arrives — nothing is paid in eight months of the year.

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. GPN's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.

GPN's payout ratio is negative, which means the dividend is being paid while the company reports a loss. A dividend can be funded from cash reserves or borrowing through a loss-making period, but not from profits that do not exist — and every projection above assumes the current payment continues indefinitely.

The figures hold the dividend flat. No multi-year record of consecutive increases is on file for GPN, so treat the projection as arithmetic on today's payment rather than as an expectation about future ones.