Dividends

ULVRUnilever plc

StockLSEUnited KingdomConsumer staplesEU retail investors: available

+1.2% today · +1.2% over a year

8/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 80% of the instruments we score

Stability: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 3.28%.

Unilever plc (ULVR) dividends: trailing yield 3.28%, Dividend Safety 79/100.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
3.28%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
3.17%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
£1.65
Payments per year
4
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
79 / 100
Safe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
3.28% → 3.19%
Forward
3.17% → 3.08%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United Kingdom)
0.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
97.35%
  • Source country assumed: United Kingdom (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • 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: 3.03%

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

No upcoming payment has been announced yet.

Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
−0.3%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
24
Payout ratio (earnings)
38%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
64%

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2017 £1.37, 2018 £1.50, 2019 £1.59, 2020 £1.63, 2021 £1.66, 2022 £1.64, 2023 £1.69, 2024 £1.65, 2025 £1.742017: £1.372018: £1.502019: £1.592020: £1.632021: £1.662022: £1.642023: £1.692024: £1.652025: £1.74

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
06 Aug 2026—£0.3982RegularSingle source2
14 May 2026—£0.4046RegularSingle source2
26 Feb 2026—£0.4052RegularSingle source2
06 Nov 2025—£0.4419RegularSingle source2

Each payment is checked against up to 2 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so 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, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

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