Balchem Corp dividend history
Balchem Corp's dividend was $0.960 a share in fiscal 2025, up 10.3% on the year before. That was 18.3% of net income. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2022, as far back as our figures go.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Buybacks (TTM)
- $126M
- Dividends (TTM)
- $30.8M
- Returned to shareholders
- 89%
- of free cash flow
- Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years
- $118M
- Diluted share count
- −1.6%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 2.8%
- dividends 0.6% + buybacks 2.3% of market value
- Dividend payout ratio
- 18%
- of net income paid out
- R&D spending
- 1.9%
- of revenue
- Days sales outstanding
- 48 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 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend per share | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $0.710 | $0.790 | $0.870 | $0.960 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | +11.3% | +10.1% | +10.3% | — |
| Dividends paid | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 28 | 31 |
| Share buybacks | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 35 | 35 | 4 | 6 | 108 | 126 |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 7.5% | 9.3% | 11.1% | 29.3% | 0.0% | 14.9% | 15.5% | 19.2% | 13.4% | 17.1% | 19.0% | 19.7% | 19.5% | 19.7% | 21.1% | 19.9% | 18.3% | 18.0% |
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