Dividends

RKTReckitt Benckiser Group plc

StockLSEUnited KingdomConsumer staplesEU retail investors: available

+0.1% today · −7.7% over a year

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Dividend yield 8.16%.

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RKT) dividends: trailing yield 8.16%, not lowered for 11 years, 5-year growth 20.5% a year.

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.
8.16%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
6.27%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
£4.61
Payments per year
4

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
8.16% → 7.94%
Forward
6.27% → 6.10%

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: 7.53%

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)
+20.5%
Years without a lower dividend
11
Years without a cut of over 10 %
11

Unverified dividendA high yield reported by a single source only, not yet cross-checked.

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 £1.68, 2018 £1.75, 2019 £1.80, 2020 £1.82, 2021 £1.82, 2022 £1.82, 2023 £1.95, 2024 £2.04, 2025 £2.152017: £1.682018: £1.752019: £1.802020: £1.822021: £1.822022: £1.822023: £1.952024: £2.042025: £2.15

Payment history

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

Status
06 Aug 2026—£0.886RegularSingle source1
09 Apr 2026—£1.28RegularSingle source1
02 Feb 2026—£2.45RegularSingle source1
07 Aug 2025—£0.8792RegularSingle source1

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, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

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