Lithia Motors's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.50.
During the past 12 months, Lithia Motors's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 19.30% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 10.90% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.60% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Lithia Motors was 54.90% per year. The lowest was -35.50% per year. And the median was 15.40% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
Lithia Motors Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Lithia Motors's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Auto & Truck Dealerships subindustry, Lithia Motors's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and 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.
Lithia Motors Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Lithia Motors's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Lithia Motors's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Lithia Motors Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Lithia Motors Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.500
2024-03-07
2024-03-09
2024-03-22
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.500
2023-11-09
2023-11-10
2023-11-17
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.500
2023-08-10
2023-08-11
2023-08-25
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.500
2023-05-11
2023-05-12
2023-05-26
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
Lithia Motors's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2
/
264.49
=
0.76 %
Current Share Price is $264.49.
Lithia Motors's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $2.
Lithia Motors's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2
/
264.49
=
0.76 %
Current Share Price is $264.49.
Lithia Motors's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.5 * 4 = $2.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
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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Lithia Motors (Lithia Motors) Business Description
Lithia Motors is a retailer of new and used vehicles and related services. The company offers over 45 brands of vehicles at about 350 stores globally including 28 U.S. states at year-end 2022 and entered Canada in mid-2021 with the purchase of Pfaff Automotive and bought Jardine and soon Pendragon in the U.K. in 2023. The company has expanded largely through the acquisition of dealerships in smaller regional markets but now seeks to grow in any part of the U.S. and we expect more deals over time in the U.S. and abroad. Annual revenue in 2022 was $28.2 billion and we see over $50 billion possible in 2025. In 2022, new-car sales were about 46% of total revenue. Lithia was founded in 1946, went public in 1996, and is now the largest U.S. auto dealer. It is based in Medford, Oregon.
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