AES Corporation dividend history
AES Corporation's dividend was $0.704 a share in fiscal 2025, up 1.5% on the year before. That was 55.1% of net income. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2012, as far back as our figures go.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Dividends (TTM)
- $502M
- Diluted share count
- +0.3%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 4.7%
- dividends 4.7% + buybacks 0.0% of market value
- Dividend payout ratio
- 27%
- of net income paid out
- Days sales outstanding
- 54 days
- receivables vs revenue
Dividends by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | 2009Dec 2009 | 2010Dec 2010 | 2011Dec 2011 | 2012Dec 2012 | 2013Dec 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend per share | — | — | — | $0.040 | $0.170 | $0.250 | $0.410 | $0.450 | $0.490 | $0.530 | $0.553 | $0.580 | $0.610 | $0.640 | $0.670 | $0.694 | $0.704 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | — | — | — | +325.0% | +47.1% | +64.0% | +9.8% | +8.9% | +8.2% | +4.3% | +5.0% | +5.0% | +5.0% | +4.7% | +3.5% | +1.5% | — |
| Dividends paid | — | 0 | 0 | 30 | 119 | 144 | 276 | 290 | 317 | 344 | 362 | 381 | 401 | 422 | 444 | 483 | 501 | 502 |
| Share buybacks | 0 | 99 | 279 | 301 | 322 | 308 | 482 | 79 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends ÷ net income | — | 0.0% | 0.0% | — | 104.4% | 18.7% | 90.2% | — | — | 28.6% | 119.5% | 828.3% | — | — | 178.3% | 28.8% | 55.1% | 26.8% |
| Dividends ÷ free cash flow | — | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.8% | 16.4% | — | — | 52.5% | 96.9% | 155.0% | 593.4% | 44.6% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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