Watts Water Technologies Inc dividend history
Watts Water Technologies Inc's dividend was $1.99 a share in fiscal 2025, up 20.6% on the year before. That was 19.6% of net income. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2012.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Buybacks (TTM)
- $16M
- Dividends (TTM)
- $73.7M
- Returned to shareholders
- 26%
- of free cash flow
- Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years
- $49M
- Diluted share count
- 0.0%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 0.8%
- dividends 0.6% + buybacks 0.1% of market value
- Dividend payout ratio
- 19%
- of net income paid out
- R&D spending
- 3.0%
- of revenue
- Sales & admin spending
- 29.4%
- of revenue
- Days sales outstanding
- 55 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 | $0.440 | $0.440 | $0.440 | $0.440 | $0.500 | $0.580 | $0.660 | $0.710 | $0.750 | $0.820 | $0.900 | $0.920 | $1.01 | $1.16 | $1.38 | $1.65 | $1.99 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | +13.6% | +16.0% | +13.8% | +7.6% | +5.6% | +9.3% | +9.8% | +2.2% | +9.8% | +14.9% | +19.0% | +19.6% | +20.6% | — |
| Dividends paid | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 34 | 40 | 47 | 56 | 67 | 74 |
| Share buybacks | — | — | 27 | 66 | 23 | 40 | 45 | 27 | 18 | 26 | 20 | 29 | 16 | 69 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 93.1% | 27.9% | 24.5% | 23.4% | 30.2% | 40.8% | — | 29.1% | 35.4% | 22.1% | 23.9% | 27.5% | 20.7% | 15.7% | 17.7% | 19.1% | 19.6% | 19.2% |
| Dividends ÷ free cash flow | 9.0% | 18.5% | 15.7% | 16.0% | 19.5% | 18.4% | 28.3% | 24.0% | 20.5% | 21.2% | 19.1% | 17.0% | 22.3% | 20.2% | 16.5% | 17.0% | 18.8% | 21.1% |
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