MRKMerck KGaA
+1.1% today · +31.3% over a year
No score: too little data.
Trend: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 1.51%.
Merck KGaA (MRK) dividends: trailing yield 1.51%, raised 16 years in a row, 5-year growth 9.5% a year.
Yield after tax (estimate)
Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom
- Last 12 months
- 1.51% → 1.17%
- Forward
- 1.51% → 1.17%
Of every 100 paid out
- Withheld at source (Germany)
- 20.00%
- Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
- 0.00%
- Cyprus GeSY health contribution
- 2.65%
- You keep
- 77.35%
- Source country assumed: Germany (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
- Other EU countries withhold 15–26.375 % by law; we model 20 %. Treaty relief is often only by reclaim.
- GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.
Cyprus resident, domiciled: 1.17%
Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax
Next payment
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Dividend profile
- 5-year dividend growth (per year)
- +9.5%
- Years of dividend growth
- 16
- Years without a cut
- 16
Dividends per share by year
Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.
Payment history
Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.
| Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr 2026 | — | €2.20 | Regular | Single source | 1 |
| 28 Apr 2025 | — | €2.20 | Regular | Single source | 1 |
| 29 Apr 2024 | — | €2.20 | Regular | Single source | 1 |
| 02 May 2023 | — | €2.20 | Regular | Single source | 1 |
Each payment is checked against 1 data feed. Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.
What dividend safety is made of
0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, growth streak and how stretched the yield looks.
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