Dividends

DEODiageo plc

StockNYSEUnited KingdomConsumer staplesEU retail investors: available

+3.9% today · +7.4% over a year

1/10 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 15% of the instruments we score

Priced higher than most peers (P/E 101.0). Dividend yield 2.05%.

Diageo plc (DEO) dividends: trailing yield 2.05%, Dividend Safety 36/100.

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.
2.05%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
2.46%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$2.00
Payments per year
2
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
36 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
2.05% → 1.99%
Forward
2.46% → 2.39%

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: 1.89%

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)
−13.0%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
0
Payout ratio (earnings)
189%

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.

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 $3.22, 2018 $3.55, 2019 $3.49, 2020 $3.64, 2021 $4.01, 2022 $3.85, 2023 $4.04, 2024 $4.14, 2025 $4.142017: $3.222018: $3.552019: $3.492020: $3.642021: $4.012022: $3.852023: $4.042024: $4.142025: $4.14

Payment history

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

Status
16 Oct 2026—$1.20RegularSingle source1
17 Apr 2026—$0.80RegularSingle source2
17 Oct 2025—$2.52RegularSingle source2
28 Feb 2025—$1.62RegularSingle source2

Each payment is checked against up to 2 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so 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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A high yield is not a high return: payouts can come from your own capital and can be cut. Dividend calculator →