Dividend Screener

Sort the Yield column above to rank every tracked Philippine Stock Exchange company by trailing-12-month cash dividends against its current price. The top of that list changes as prices move, because yield is a ratio: a stock that falls sharply without cutting its payout shows a higher yield the next day without having become more generous.

Most PSE companies that pay a dividend at all land somewhere between 1% and 6%. Anything far above that is worth checking rather than celebrating, since an unusually high yield is often a trailing figure divided by a price that has already collapsed, or a one-off special dividend that will not repeat. What dividend yield means →

Cash dividends paid to a resident individual carry a 10% final withholding tax, deducted by the company before the money reaches your broker. Every yield on this page is the gross figure, so your actual cash received is about 90% of what is shown. See the full cost breakdown →

You must own the shares before the ex-dividend date. Buy on or after the ex-date and the payout belongs to the seller, not to you. The record date follows a couple of days later and the payment date is usually several weeks after that. Upcoming ex-dates →

No. A large share of the 282 tracked companies have declared no cash dividend in the last 12 months, and they are shown here with no yield rather than a zero. Growth companies and loss-making ones commonly retain everything they earn.

Preferred series pay on a different basis, often a percentage of par value or in US dollars, so putting them on the same yield scale as common shares would compare two different things. They have their own page instead. Preferred dividend history →

Building a portfolio around companies that pay regular cash dividends, so the holding produces income whether or not the share price rises. On the PSE the dependable payers are mostly mature banks, utilities and property firms rather than fast-growing companies, so it tends to suit a long horizon and a tolerance for unexciting businesses. The work is in checking that a payout can continue, not in finding the largest number. Full definition →

In practice it comes down to four steps: screen for companies that have actually paid across several periods rather than once, check each one's payout ratio to see the dividend is covered by earnings, spread the holdings across sectors so one industry's bad year does not stop your income, and stagger the ex-dates so payouts arrive through the year instead of all at once. PSEye's portfolio tracker projects the annual income from whatever you hold and lists the upcoming ex-dates for those specific stocks. Track dividend income →

Often, yes, and it has a name: a dividend trap. Yield is a ratio, so a collapsing price raises it automatically without the company having become more generous, and a one-off special dividend inflates the trailing total for a year. The warning signs are a payout ratio near or above 100%, a yield far above others in the same sector, and a share price in sustained decline. Treat the top of the yield ranking as a list to investigate rather than a list to buy. What a dividend trap is →

It is dividends per share divided by earnings per share, so it shows what portion of its profit a company is handing out. Below roughly 60% leaves room to keep paying through a weak year; near or above 100% means the payout exceeds earnings and is being funded from reserves or borrowing, which cannot last indefinitely. PSEye does not print the ratio directly, but every stock page carries both figures it needs, EPS and the trailing 12-month dividend. Full definition →

They are genuinely different strategies. A high starting yield pays more now; a smaller one growing steadily pays more later, and a 3% yield rising 10% a year passes a flat 6% one within about a decade while the rising payout also tends to pull the share price up. High yield suits someone who needs the income now, dividend growth someone with years to wait. The payout count on this screener shows how consistently a company has paid, and each stock page shows this year's total against last year's. Dividend growth investing →

Reinvesting is what turns a dividend from income into compounding, because the next payout is then calculated on a larger holding. Philippine brokers rarely automate it, so it usually means placing the buy yourself, and two frictions are worth planning around: the board lot minimum, and a commission charged on what may be a small order. Many people let dividends accumulate and reinvest quarterly rather than on every payout, which keeps the fee proportionate. Full definition →

Usually not, and the arithmetic is why. The price typically falls by roughly the dividend on the ex-date, so the payout and the drop largely cancel. What does not cancel is the cost: commission on both trades, the 0.6% stock transaction tax on the sale, and 10% withholding on the dividend. This strategy is called dividend capture, and on a ₱10,000 round trip the costs alone exceed a typical quarterly payout. Dividend capture explained →

At a 4% net yield, roughly 25 times your annual spending, and at 3% closer to 33 times, so ₱20,000 a month of income implies somewhere around ₱6 million to ₱8 million invested. Two adjustments make that estimate honest: yields here are gross, so subtract the 10% withholding tax, and a dividend can be cut in the years you can least afford it. Most people treat dividends as one income stream rather than the only one. Project your own income →

There is no fixed convention. Some companies pay twice a year, some quarterly, many once annually, and plenty irregularly or not at all. The payout count column shows how many declarations went into each trailing-12-month total, which is the quickest way to tell a steady quarterly payer from a company that happened to declare one special dividend.

Lower volatility on average, but not safe. A dividend gives a real cash return that does not depend on selling at a good price, and the mature companies that pay them tend to swing less. They still fall in a market decline, a dividend can be cut at any time, and companies in structural decline can pay well for years while the share price erodes more than the dividends returned. Why total return is the test →