Dividends

SBRYJ Sainsbury plc

StockLSEUnited KingdomConsumer staplesEU retail investors: available

+0.8% today · +6.6% over a year

No score: too little data.

Stability: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 6.88%.

J Sainsbury plc (SBRY) dividends: trailing yield 6.88%, not lowered for 4 years, 5-year growth 6.7% 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.
6.88%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
5.35%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
£0.247
Payments per year
2

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
6.88% → 6.69%
Forward
5.35% → 5.20%

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: 6.35%

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)
+6.7%
Years without a lower dividend
4
Years without a cut of over 10 %
4

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 £0.036, 2017 £0.097, 2018 £0.102, 2019 £0.112, 2020 £0.105, 2021 £0.106, 2022 £0.138, 2023 £0.131, 2024 £0.131, 2025 £0.2482016: £0.0362017: £0.0972018: £0.1022019: £0.1122020: £0.1052021: £0.1062022: £0.1382023: £0.1312024: £0.1312025: £0.248

Payment history

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

Status
04 Jun 2026—£0.096RegularSingle source1
13 Nov 2025—£0.151RegularSingle source1
05 Jun 2025—£0.097RegularSingle source1
14 Nov 2024—£0.039RegularSingle 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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