Dividends

XELXcel Energy

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+0.6% today · +2.2% over a year

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Priced higher than most peers (P/E 19.3). Dividend yield 2.93%.

Xcel Energy (XEL) dividends: trailing yield 2.93%, Dividend Safety 77/100, not lowered for 21 years, 5-year growth 5.4% 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.
2.93%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
2.96%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$2.35
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.
77 / 100
Safe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
2.93% → 2.41%
Forward
2.96% → 2.43%

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: 2.41%

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

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+5.4%
Years without a lower dividend
21
Years without a cut of over 10 %
21
Payout ratio (earnings)
55%

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: 2016 $0.34, 2017 $1.44, 2018 $1.52, 2019 $1.62, 2020 $1.72, 2021 $1.83, 2022 $1.95, 2023 $2.08, 2024 $1.64, 2025 $2.832016: $0.342017: $1.442018: $1.522019: $1.622020: $1.722021: $1.832022: $1.952023: $2.082024: $1.642025: $2.83

Payment history

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

Status
15 Sep 202620 Oct 2026$0.5925RegularVerified3
15 Jun 202621 Jul 2026$0.593RegularVerified2
13 Mar 202621 Apr 2026$0.593RegularVerified2
29 Dec 202521 Jan 2026$0.57RegularVerified2

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.

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