Dividends

UUUnited Utilities Group plc

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+0.6% today · +28.3% over a year

No score: too little data.

Stability: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 3.43%.

United Utilities Group plc (UU) dividends: trailing yield 3.43%, not lowered for 12 years, 5-year growth 4.4% 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.
3.43%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
4.58%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
£0.5366
Payments per year
2

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
3.43% → 3.34%
Forward
4.58% → 4.46%

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: 3.17%

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

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+4.4%
Years without a lower dividend
12
Years without a cut of over 10 %
15

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: 2016 £0.1295, 2017 £0.3916, 2018 £0.4025, 2019 £0.4172, 2020 £0.4281, 2021 £0.4333, 2022 £0.4417, 2023 £0.4693, 2024 £0.5047, 2025 £0.52452016: £0.12952017: £0.39162018: £0.40252019: £0.41722020: £0.42812021: £0.43332022: £0.44172023: £0.46932024: £0.50472025: £0.5245

Payment history

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

Status
25 Jun 2026—£0.3578RegularSingle source1
18 Dec 2025—£0.1788RegularSingle source1
19 Jun 2025—£0.3457RegularSingle source1
28 Nov 2024—£0.1728RegularSingle 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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