GE HealthCare dividend history
GE HealthCare's dividend was $0.140 a share in fiscal 2025, up 12.0% on the year before. That was 3.1% of net income. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2023, as far back as our figures go.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Buybacks (TTM)
- $300M
- Dividends (TTM)
- $64M
- Returned to shareholders
- 19%
- of free cash flow
- Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years
- $200M
- Diluted share count
- −0.6%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 1.0%
- dividends 0.2% + buybacks 0.8% of market value
- Dividend payout ratio
- 3%
- of net income paid out
- R&D spending
- 6.1%
- of revenue
- Sales & admin spending
- 20.5%
- of revenue
Dividends by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend per share | — | — | $0.120 | $0.125 | $0.140 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | — | — | +4.2% | +12.0% | — |
| Dividends paid | 0 | 0 | 41 | 55 | 64 | 64 |
| Share buybacks | — | — | 0 | 0 | 200 | 300 |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.6% | 2.8% | 3.1% | 3.0% |
| Dividends ÷ free cash flow | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.4% | 3.5% | 4.3% | 3.4% |
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