Dividends

ULUnilever PLC

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+3.3% today · +1.1% over a year

No score: too little data.

Stability: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 3.32%.

Unilever PLC (UL) dividends: trailing yield 3.32%, Dividend Safety 72/100.

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.
3.32%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
3.17%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$2.22
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.
72 / 100
Safe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
3.32% → 3.23%
Forward
3.17% → 3.09%

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: 3.07%

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)
−0.4%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
11
Payout ratio (earnings)
51%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
64%

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 $1.76, 2018 $2.06, 2019 $2.05, 2020 $2.08, 2021 $2.29, 2022 $2.02, 2023 $2.09, 2024 $2.10, 2025 $2.292017: $1.762018: $2.062019: $2.052020: $2.082021: $2.292022: $2.022023: $2.092024: $2.102025: $2.29

Payment history

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

Status
07 Aug 2026—$0.531RegularSingle source2
15 May 2026—$0.545RegularSingle source2
27 Feb 2026—$0.555RegularSingle source2
07 Nov 2025—$0.5923RegularSingle 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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