Dividend 15 Split (TSE:DFN) Reaches New 12-Month High – What’s Next?

Dividend 15 Split Corp. (TSE:DFN) reached a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as C$8.96 and last traded at C$8.93, with a volume of 607676 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at C$8.92.

Dividend 15 Split Stock Performance

The company has a quick ratio of 1.75, a current ratio of 0.17 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 131.30. The stock’s fifty day moving average is C$8.17 and its two-hundred day moving average is C$7.77. The firm has a market capitalization of C$1.33 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 4.71 and a beta of 0.50.

Dividend 15 Split Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Friday, May 8th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 8th were given a $0.10 dividend. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 13.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, April 30th. Dividend 15 Split’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 63.16%.

Dividend 15 Split Company Profile

The Companys investment objectives with respect to the Class A Shares are (a) to provide holders of Class A Shares with regular monthly cash dividends targeted to be $0.10 per Class A Share; and (b) on or about the Termination Date (as defined herein), to pay holders of Class A Shares $15.00 per Class A Share, which was the issue price thereof on the initial public offering of the Company, through the redemption of each Class A Share held on the Termination Date. The assets of the Company are invested in an actively managed portfolio of common shares (the Portfolio) which primarily includes securities of the following 15 publicly traded Canadian companies (the Portfolio Companies), each of whose securities will generally represent no less than 4% and no more than 8% of the Net Asset Value of the Company: Bank of Montreal The Bank of Nova Scotia BCE Inc Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CI Financial Corp.