Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation (NASDAQ:BMTC) Passed Our Checks, And It's About To Pay A US$0.26 Dividend
It looks like Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation (NASDAQ:BMTC) is about to go ex-dividend in the next 3 days. If you purchase the stock on or after the 30th of January, you won't be eligible to receive this dividend, when it is paid on the 1st of March.
Bryn Mawr Bank's next dividend payment will be US$0.26 per share, and in the last 12 months, the company paid a total of US$1.04 per share. Calculating the last year's worth of payments shows that Bryn Mawr Bank has a trailing yield of 2.6% on the current share price of $39.55. Dividends are an important source of income to many shareholders, but the health of the business is crucial to maintaining those dividends. So we need to check whether the dividend payments are covered, and if earnings are growing.
See our latest analysis for Bryn Mawr Bank
Dividends are typically paid out of company income, so if a company pays out more than it earned, its dividend is usually at a higher risk of being cut. Fortunately Bryn Mawr Bank's payout ratio is modest, at just 35% of profit.
When a company paid out less in dividends than it earned in profit, this generally suggests its dividend is affordable. The lower the % of its profit that it pays out, the greater the margin of safety for the dividend if the business enters a downturn.
Click here to see the company's payout ratio, plus analyst estimates of its future dividends.
Have Earnings And Dividends Been Growing?
Businesses with strong growth prospects usually make the best dividend payers, because it's easier to grow dividends when earnings per share are improving. Investors love dividends, so if earnings fall and the dividend is reduced, expect a stock to be sold off heavily at the same time. With that in mind, we're encouraged by the steady growth at Bryn Mawr Bank, with earnings per share up 7.4% on average over the last five years.
Many investors will assess a company's dividend performance by evaluating how much the dividend payments have changed over time. In the last ten years, Bryn Mawr Bank has lifted its dividend by approximately 6.4% a year on average. It's encouraging to see the company lifting dividends while earnings are growing, suggesting at least some corporate interest in rewarding shareholders.
The Bottom Line
Is Bryn Mawr Bank worth buying for its dividend? It has been growing its earnings per share somewhat in recent years, although it reinvests more than half its earnings in the business, which could suggest there are some growth projects that have not yet reached fruition. Overall, Bryn Mawr Bank looks like a promising dividend stock in this analysis, and we think it would be worth investigating further.
Ever wonder what the future holds for Bryn Mawr Bank? See what the six analysts we track are forecasting, with this visualisation of its historical and future estimated earnings and cash flow
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