Dividends

CMSCMS Energy Corporation

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+0.5% today · −2.0% over a year

2/10 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 21% of the instruments we score

Quality: among the weakest; priced higher than most peers (P/E 21.5). Dividend yield 3.28%.

CMS Energy Corporation (CMS) dividends: trailing yield 3.28%, Dividend Safety 76/100, not lowered for 19 years, 5-year growth 5.6% 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.
3.28%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
3.28%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$2.28
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.
76 / 100
Safe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
3.28% → 2.70%
Forward
3.28% → 2.70%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United States)
15.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
82.35%
  • Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
  • 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: 2.70%

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Next payment

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+5.6%
Years without a lower dividend
19
Years without a cut of over 10 %
19
Payout ratio (earnings)
68%

Annual total matches the company's SEC filing

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 $1.33, 2018 $1.43, 2019 $1.53, 2020 $1.63, 2021 $1.74, 2022 $1.84, 2023 $1.95, 2024 $2.06, 2025 $2.172017: $1.332018: $1.432019: $1.532020: $1.632021: $1.742022: $1.842023: $1.952024: $2.062025: $2.17

Payment history

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

Status
06 Nov 202601 Dec 2026$0.57RegularVerified2
07 Aug 202602 Sep 2026$0.57RegularVerified2
08 May 202601 Jun 2026$0.57RegularVerified2
17 Feb 202602 Mar 2026$0.57RegularVerified2

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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