Dividends

GILGildan Activewear Inc. Class A Sub. Vot.

StockNYSECanadaConsumer discretionaryEU retail investors: available

+6.6% today · −22.7% 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 27% of the instruments we score

Trend: among the weakest; priced lower than most peers. Dividend yield 1.73%.

Gildan Activewear Inc. Class A Sub. Vot. (GIL) dividends: trailing yield 1.73%, Dividend Safety 39/100, 5-year growth 19.4% 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.
1.73%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
2.30%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$0.747
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.
39 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

We do not estimate tax on distributions from Canada yet.

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Next payment

No upcoming payment has been announced yet.

Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+19.4%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
0
Payout ratio (earnings)
29%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
27%

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: 2016 $0.078, 2017 $0.376, 2018 $0.448, 2019 $0.536, 2020 $0.154, 2021 $0.462, 2022 $0.676, 2023 $0.744, 2024 $0.82, 2025 $0.6782016: $0.0782017: $0.3762018: $0.4482019: $0.5362020: $0.1542021: $0.4622022: $0.6762023: $0.7442024: $0.822025: $0.678

Payment history

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

Status
20 Aug 2026—$0.249RegularSingle source2
20 May 2026—$0.249RegularSingle source2
19 Mar 2026—$0.249RegularSingle source2
21 Aug 2025—$0.226RegularSingle 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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