List of Dividend Paying Shares

wolfma

Anyone know where I can get a list of dividend paying uk companies?

I know most of the FTSE 100 companies pay a dividend, but is there is a general list of all uk listed shares that pay dividends?

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

Would equity income not be better?

alanq

There will be lists of companies which have recently paid dividends. There is no guarantee that a company that has paid dividends in the past will pay them in the future or that one that has not paid dividends recently will not do begin to do so.

jimmyss1

Try http://www.upcomingdividends.co.uk/

It gives a full list of upcoming uk listed share dividends, with ex-dividend dates and payment dates.

Ark_Welder

FTSE All Share
FTSE Fledgling
FTSE AIM All Share

Click on the Div Yield column heading to sort into yield order. This will put the non-yielders at the bottom (or the top).

sabretoothtigger

Do they include special dividends in such calculations. Quite often those are the best payers

Another thing people sometimes refer to is free cashflow. If a company has cash it has opportunity to return it

bigfreddiel

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

Would equity income not be better?

what??????????

redbuzzard

If the OP wishes to buy shares with dividend income attached, one of a number of possibilities that might reasonably be inferred, an equity income fund is a reasonable suggestion.

It's no good just buying shares with a high listed dividend yield, as we all know some are absolute dogs and it's not the numerator that's high, it's the denominator that's dropped through the floor.

So an income seeker can either do the research themselves, or let someone else do it and buy a fund. To qualify as "equity income", IIRC, the yield must be>= 110% x the FTSE.

cepheus

Is buying a share with a high dividend theoretically inefficient for the individual investor, because you can't reclaim all all the tax, even if held in an ISA?

If profits were reinvested in the company instead (rather than paid out as dividends) the capital should be reflected in the price and subsequent potential capital gain, which in many circumstances would not be subject to tax.

redbuzzard

cepheus wrote: »

Is buying a share with a high dividend theoretically inefficient for the individual investor, because you can't reclaim all all the tax, even if held in an ISA?

If profits were reinvested in the company instead (rather than paid out as dividends) the capital should be reflected in the price and subsequent potential capital gain, which in many circumstances would not be subject to tax.

Only if tax matters. And companies can't always invest all their available cash wisely; if they can't, it becomes a problem. Apple's share price has undoubtedly been constrained to some extent by its massive cash hoard for fear it would make a bad acquisition and destroy its value. A smaller business holding so much cash in relative terms would surely be takeover bait.

At some point, cash has to emerge - the ultimate value of a company is in future cash flows, either from distributions or a sale.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

The tax on Dividends for me I think is less than on savings %. 10% dividends and 20% on savings.