ALCAlcon
+0.3% today · +2.1% 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 34% of the instruments we score
Dividend yield 0.39%.
Alcon (ALC) dividends: trailing yield 0.39%, Dividend Safety 65/100, 5-year growth 21.6% a year.
Yield after tax (estimate)
We do not estimate tax on distributions from Switzerland yet.
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Next payment
No upcoming payment has been announced yet.
Dividend profile
- 5-year dividend growth (per year)
- +21.6%
- Years without a lower dividend
- 0
- Years without a cut of over 10 %
- 0
- Payout ratio (earnings)
- 15%
- Payout ratio (free cash flow)
- 10%
Sources disagreeDividend or fundamental sources disagree beyond tolerance.
Dividends per share by year
Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.
Payment history
Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.
| Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 May 2026 | 07 May 2026 | $0.293 | Regular | Sources disagree | 3 |
| 13 May 2025 | 15 May 2025 | $0.331 | Regular | Verified | 3 |
| 14 May 2024 | 16 May 2024 | $0.2683 | Regular | Sources disagree | 3 |
| 10 May 2023 | 12 May 2023 | $0.236 | Regular | Single source | 3 |
Each payment is checked against up to 3 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.
Similar dividend payers
Same sector and region, closest in dividend yield.
| STVNStevanato Group S.p.A. | 0.5% | 48 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALCAlcon AG | 0.5% | 79 | 5 |
| SRT3Sartorius AG (pref.) | 0.3% | — | — |
| BAYNBayer AG | 0.2% | — | — |
| QGENQiagen N.V. | 0.7% | 65 | 1 |
| 7741HOYA Corp. | 0.7% | — | 16 |
| LONNLonza Group AG | 0.8% | — | 8 |
| ERFEurofins Scientific SE | 0.8% | — | 2 |
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