Don't Buy Cadence Bancorporation (NYSE:CADE) For Its Next Dividend Without Doing These Checks
It looks like Cadence Bancorporation (NYSE:CADE) is about to go ex-dividend in the next four days. If you purchase the stock on or after the 30th of October, you won't be eligible to receive this dividend, when it is paid on the 16th of November.
Cadence Bancorporation's next dividend payment will be US$0.075 per share, on the back of last year when the company paid a total of US$0.20 to shareholders. Based on the last year's worth of payments, Cadence Bancorporation stock has a trailing yield of around 1.7% on the current share price of $12.06. We love seeing companies pay a dividend, but it's also important to be sure that laying the golden eggs isn't going to kill our golden goose! That's why we should always check whether the dividend payments appear sustainable, and if the company is growing.
View our latest analysis for Cadence Bancorporation
Dividends are typically paid from company earnings. If a company pays more in dividends than it earned in profit, then the dividend could be unsustainable. Cadence Bancorporation reported a loss last year, so it's not great to see that it has continued paying a dividend.
Click here to see the company's payout ratio, plus analyst estimates of its future dividends.
Have Earnings And Dividends Been Growing?
Companies with falling earnings are riskier for dividend shareholders. Investors love dividends, so if earnings fall and the dividend is reduced, expect a stock to be sold off heavily at the same time. Cadence Bancorporation reported a loss last year, and the general trend suggests its earnings have also been declining in recent years, making us wonder if the dividend is at risk.
Another key way to measure a company's dividend prospects is by measuring its historical rate of dividend growth. Cadence Bancorporation's dividend payments per share have declined at 26% per year on average over the past three years, which is uninspiring. It's never nice to see earnings and dividends falling, but at least management has cut the dividend rather than potentially risk the company's health in an attempt to maintain it.
Get our latest analysis on Cadence Bancorporation's balance sheet health here.
Final Takeaway
Should investors buy Cadence Bancorporation for the upcoming dividend? First, it's not great to see the company paying a dividend despite being loss-making over the last year. Worse, the general trend in its earnings looks negative in recent years. This is not an overtly appealing combination of characteristics, and we're just not that interested in this company's dividend.
So if you're still interested in Cadence Bancorporation despite it's poor dividend qualities, you should be well informed on some of the risks facing this stock. To help with this, we've discovered 3 warning signs for Cadence Bancorporation that you should be aware of before investing in their shares.
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