Dividends

HSBCHSBC Holdings plc.

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+0.4% today · +29.0% over a year

4/10 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 43% of the instruments we score

Priced higher than most peers (P/E 70.3). Dividend yield 1.74%.

HSBC Holdings plc. (HSBC) dividends: trailing yield 1.74%, Dividend Safety 22/100, 5-year growth 6.4% 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.
1.74%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
2.32%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$3.75
Payments per year
4
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, growth streak and how stretched the yield looks.
22 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
1.74% → 1.69%
Forward
2.32% → 2.25%

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: 1.60%

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)
+6.4%
Years of dividend growth
0
Years without a cut
1
Payout ratio (earnings)
125%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
48%

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 $2.55, 2018 $2.55, 2019 $2.55, 2020 $1.05, 2021 $1.10, 2022 $1.35, 2023 $2.65, 2024 $4.10, 2025 $3.302017: $2.552018: $2.552019: $2.552020: $1.052021: $1.102022: $1.352023: $2.652024: $4.102025: $3.30

Payment history

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

Status
14 Aug 2026—$0.50RegularSingle source2
15 May 2026—$0.50RegularSingle source2
13 Mar 2026—$2.25SpecialSingle source2
07 Nov 2025—$0.50RegularSingle 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, growth streak and how stretched the yield looks.

Similar dividend payers

Same sector and region, closest in dividend yield.

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