Dividends

MFCManulife Financial Corporation

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−0.5% today · +40.1% over a year

8/10 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 73% of the instruments we score

Trend, Stability: among the best of its peers; priced lower than most peers. Dividend yield 2.36%.

Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC) dividends: trailing yield 2.36%, Dividend Safety 54/100, 5-year growth 3.5% 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.
2.36%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
3.15%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$1.06
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.
54 / 100
Borderline

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)
+3.5%
Years of dividend growth
1
Years without a cut
1
Payout ratio (earnings)
34%

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 $0.137, 2017 $0.63, 2018 $0.705, 2019 $0.753, 2020 $0.837, 2021 $0.936, 2022 $1.02, 2023 $1.07, 2024 $1.17, 2025 $0.6222016: $0.1372017: $0.632018: $0.7052019: $0.7532020: $0.8372021: $0.9362022: $1.022023: $1.072024: $1.172025: $0.622

Payment history

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

Status
21 Aug 2026—$0.352RegularSingle source2
29 May 2026—$0.352RegularSingle source2
25 Feb 2026—$0.354RegularSingle source2
21 May 2025—$0.316RegularSingle 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.

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