ASHAshland Inc
+1.4% today · +59.6% over a year
5/10 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 44% of the instruments we score
Trend: among the best of its peers. Dividend yield 2.15%.
Ashland Inc (ASH) dividends: trailing yield 2.15%, Dividend Safety 60/100, not lowered for 17 years, 5-year growth 7.7% a year.
Yield after tax (estimate)
Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom
- Last 12 months
- 2.15% → 1.77%
- Forward
- 2.16% → 1.78%
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: 1.77%
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)
- +7.7%
- Years without a lower dividend
- 17
- Years without a cut of over 10 %
- 17
- Payout ratio (earnings)
- 159%
- Payout ratio (free cash flow)
- 30%
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.
Payment history
Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.
| Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Sep 2026 | 16 Sep 2026 | $0.42 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 01 Jun 2026 | 16 Jun 2026 | $0.42 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 27 Feb 2026 | 17 Mar 2026 | $0.415 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 01 Dec 2025 | 16 Dec 2025 | $0.415 | Regular | Verified | 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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