SMGScotts Miracle-Gro Co The
+2.5% today · +22.8% over a year
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Dividend yield 3.98%.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co The (SMG) dividends: trailing yield 3.98%, Dividend Safety 28/100, not lowered for 6 years, 5-year growth 0.9% a year.
Yield after tax (estimate)
Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom
- Last 12 months
- 3.98% → 3.28%
- Forward
- 3.98% → 3.28%
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: 3.28%
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)
- +0.9%
- Years without a lower dividend
- 6
- Years without a cut of over 10 %
- 6
- Payout ratio (earnings)
- 224%
- Payout ratio (free cash flow)
- 59%
Annual total matches the company's SEC filing
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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.
Caution. Dividends grew 5+ points a year faster than earnings over five years and the payout is above 75 %. More in the glossary →Dividends grew 5+ points a year faster than earnings over five years and the payout is above 75 %.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Aug 2026 | 07 Sep 2026 | $0.66 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 22 May 2026 | 08 Jun 2026 | $0.66 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 20 Feb 2026 | 09 Mar 2026 | $0.66 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 21 Nov 2025 | 08 Dec 2025 | $0.66 | Regular | Single source | 2 |
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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