Churchill Downs Inc dividend history
Churchill Downs Inc's dividend was $0.438 a share in fiscal 2025, up 7.1% on the year before. That was 8.0% of net income. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2018.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Buybacks (TTM)
- $75.8M
- Dividends (TTM)
- $31.8M
- Returned to shareholders
- 18%
- of free cash flow
- Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years
- $670M
- Diluted share count
- −3.9%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 1.6%
- dividends 0.5% + buybacks 1.1% of market value
- Dividend payout ratio
- 7%
- of net income paid out
- Sales & admin spending
- 8.4%
- of revenue
- Days sales outstanding
- 13 days
- receivables vs revenue
Dividends by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | 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 | $0.075 | — | — | $0.143 | $0.164 | — | — | $0.272 | $0.290 | $0.311 | $0.334 | $0.357 | $0.382 | $0.409 | $0.438 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | — | — | — | +15.0% | — | — | — | +7.0% | +7.1% | +7.4% | +6.9% | +7.0% | +7.1% | +7.1% | — |
| Dividends paid | 8 | 22 | 0 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 29 | 31 | 32 |
| Share buybacks | 1 | 5 | 11 | 77 | 148 | 39 | 181 | 531 | 95 | 28 | 298 | 175 | 56 | 186 | 428 | 76 |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 12.7% | 38.5% | 0.0% | 32.8% | 26.7% | 17.7% | 15.3% | 6.7% | 16.1% | — | 10.0% | 5.9% | 6.5% | 6.8% | 8.0% | 7.0% |
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