Alcon (ALC) Forward Dividend Yield % : 0.33% (As of May. 12, 2024)

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What is Alcon Forward Dividend Yield %?

As of today (2024-05-12), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of Alcon is 0.33%.

As of today (2024-05-12), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Alcon is 0.29%.

ALC's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than
92.83% of 307 companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 1.92 vs ALC: 0.33

Alcon's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.00.

During the past 12 months, Alcon's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.20% per year.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.

Competitive Comparison of Alcon's Forward Dividend Yield %

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Alcon's Forward Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Forward Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Alcon's Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Alcon's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Alcon's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.

Alcon Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Alcon (NYSE:ALC) Forward Dividend Yield % Explanation

Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.

Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.

In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.

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Alcon (ALC) Business Description

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Website

https://www.alcon.com

Alcon is one of the leading visioncare companies in the world. Following nine years as a Novartis subsidiary, it was spun off as a public company in April 2019. Alcon operates in two segments: visioncare and surgical. Visioncare comprises contact lenses, lenscare solutions, and a suite of ocular health products. With brands like Dailies, Total1, and Air Optix, Alcon controls one fourth of the U.S. contact lens market. Surgical comprises intraocular lenses, ophthalmic surgical equipment, and consumables used during surgeries. Its main products include Centurion, a phacoemulsification device used during cataract surgeries, and a portfolio of IOLs including PanOptix and Vivity. Alcon has one of the largest installed bases of eye surgical equipment in the world.