Argan Inc dividend history
Argan Inc's dividend was $1.75 a share in fiscal 2026, up 29.6% on the year before. That was 17.6% of net income. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2023.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Buybacks (TTM)
- $12.5M
- Dividends (TTM)
- $28.1M
- Returned to shareholders
- 7%
- of free cash flow
- Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years
- $23.9M
- Diluted share count
- +0.5%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 0.9%
- dividends 0.6% + buybacks 0.3% of market value
- Dividend payout ratio
- 16%
- of net income paid out
- Sales & admin spending
- 5.5%
- of revenue
- Days sales outstanding
- 55 days
- receivables vs revenue
Dividends by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | 2017Jan 2017 | 2018Jan 2018 | 2019Jan 2019 | 2020Jan 2020 | 2021Jan 2021 | 2022Jan 2022 | 2023Jan 2023 | 2024Jan 2024 | 2025Jan 2025 | 2026Jan 2026 | LTMJul 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend per share | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $3.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.10 | $1.35 | $1.75 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | +200.0% | −66.7% | 0.0% | +10.0% | +22.7% | +29.6% | — |
| Dividends paid | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 47 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 24 | 28 |
| Share buybacks | — | — | — | — | — | 20 | 68 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 21.7% | 21.6% | 29.9% | — | 197.3% | 41.0% | 42.2% | 45.4% | 21.4% | 17.6% | 15.6% |
| Dividends ÷ free cash flow | 6.0% | — | — | 33.6% | 27.0% | 58.0% | — | 12.9% | 11.3% | 5.9% | 5.1% |
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