Dividends

WPPWPP plc

StockNYSEIrelandCommunication servicesEU retail investors: available

+3.4% today · +68.5% over a year

No score: too little data.

Trend: among the best of its peers; Stability, Dividend safety: among the weakest. Dividend yield 3.57%.

WPP plc (WPP) dividends: trailing yield 3.57%, Dividend Safety 18/100.

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.
3.57%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
7.11%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$1.01
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.
18 / 100
Very unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
3.57% → 2.76%
Forward
7.11% → 5.50%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (Ireland)
20.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
77.35%
  • Source country assumed: Ireland (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • Other EU countries withhold 15–26.375 % by law; we model 20 %. Treaty relief is often only by reclaim.
  • 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: 2.76%

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)
−11.3%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
0
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
54%

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

Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.

Serious warning. Yield at least twice the peer median while the payout is not covered or debt is high. More in the glossary →Yield at least twice the peer median while the payout is not covered or debt is high.

Caution. Dividend Safety below 40 points. More in the glossary →Dividend Safety below 40 points.

Unverified dividendA high yield reported by a single source only, not yet cross-checked.

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 $3.73, 2018 $4.03, 2019 $3.84, 2020 $3.06, 2021 $1.85, 2022 $2.15, 2023 $2.42, 2024 $2.49, 2025 $2.042017: $3.732018: $4.032019: $3.842020: $3.062021: $1.852022: $2.152023: $2.422024: $2.492025: $2.04

Payment history

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

Status
09 Oct 2026—$0.505RegularSingle source1
05 Jun 2026—$0.508RegularSingle source1
10 Oct 2025—$0.503RegularSingle source1
06 Jun 2025—$1.54RegularSingle source1

Each payment is checked against 1 data feed. 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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