05-20-2015, 08:49 AM
(04-30-2015, 07:43 AM)rapidacid Wrote:(04-29-2015, 10:22 AM)EricL Wrote: Tyson has a BBB credit rating and just a 10% payout ratio with a long history of frozen dividends.
It may be a decent capital gains play, but it wouldn't get any consideration in my portfolio as a dividend growth stock.
Do you have a resource that shows more than the last 15 years for dividends paid? I use this which only goes back to 2000: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsn/dividend-history
I've never read an earnings call transcript for them so I don't know what their dividend narrative is, but it certainly looks like it's moving in the right direction now
Here is their dividend history, dividend was flat from 2000 to 2012.