Dividends

ARCOArcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Class A Shares

StockNYSEArgentinaConsumer discretionaryEU retail investors: available

+4.1% today · +5.8% over a year

5/10 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 66% of the instruments we score

Priced lower than most peers. Dividend yield 3.81%.

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Class A Shares (ARCO) dividends: trailing yield 3.81%, Dividend Safety 37/100, not lowered for 4 years.

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.
3.81%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
3.95%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$0.27
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.
37 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

We do not estimate tax on distributions from Argentina 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

Years without a lower dividend
4
Years without a cut of over 10 %
4
Payout ratio (earnings)
27%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
337%

Annual total matches the company's SEC filing

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

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

Caution. Dividends exceed earnings or free cash flow. More in the glossary →Dividends exceed earnings or free cash flow.

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: 2018 $0.10, 2019 $0.11, 2020 $0.05, 2022 $0.15, 2023 $0.19, 2024 $0.24, 2025 $0.242018: $0.102019: $0.112020: $0.052022: $0.152023: $0.192024: $0.242025: $0.24

Payment history

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

Status
21 Sep 2026—$0.07RegularSingle source1
22 Jun 2026—$0.07RegularSingle source1
30 Mar 2026—$0.07RegularSingle source1
22 Dec 2025—$0.06RegularSingle 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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