Dividends

WPPWPP plc

StockLSEJerseyCommunication servicesEU retail investors: available

+1.5% today · +54.2% over a year

No score: too little data.

Trend: among the best of its peers; Stability, Dividend safety: among the weakest; priced lower than most peers. Dividend yield 3.58%.

WPP plc (WPP) dividends: trailing yield 3.58%, Dividend Safety 18/100.

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.
3.58%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
7.16%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
£0.15
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.
18 / 100
Very unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

We do not estimate tax on distributions from Jersey yet.

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)
−10.8%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
0
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
54%

A high yield is not a high return: payouts can come from your own capital and can be cut.

Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.

Serious warning. Yield at least twice the peer median while the payout is not covered or debt is high. More in the glossary →Yield at least twice the peer median while the payout is not covered or debt is high.

Caution. Dividend Safety below 40 points. More in the glossary →Dividend Safety below 40 points.

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 £0.5975, 2018 £0.60, 2019 £0.60, 2020 £0.10, 2021 £0.265, 2022 £0.337, 2023 £0.394, 2024 £0.394, 2025 £0.3192017: £0.59752018: £0.602019: £0.602020: £0.102021: £0.2652022: £0.3372023: £0.3942024: £0.3942025: £0.319

Payment history

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

Status
08 Oct 2026—£0.075RegularSingle source1
04 Jun 2026—£0.075RegularSingle source1
09 Oct 2025—£0.075RegularSingle source1
05 Jun 2025—£0.244RegularSingle 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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