Dividend cover

Dividend cover is the ratio of company's earnings (net income) over the dividend paid to shareholders, calculated as net profit or loss attributable to ordinary shareholders by total ordinary dividend ^[1] So, if a company has net profit after tax of 2400 divided by total ordinary dividend of 1000, then dividend cover is 2.4.

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Financial ratios

Cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE)
Capitalization rate (Cap Rate)
Cash return on cash invested (CROCI)
Debt-to-equity (D/E)
Dividend cover
Dividend payout
Enterprise value/EBITDA (EV/EBITDA)
Enterprise value/gross cash invested (EV/GCI)
Enterprise value/sales (EV/Sales)
Loan-to-value (LTV)
Omega
Price-to-book (P/B)
Price/cash flow (P/CF)
Price-earnings (P/E)
Price-earnings to growth (PEG)
Price-sales (P/S)
Return on assets (ROA)
Return on net assets (RONA)
Return on capital (ROC)
Return on capital employed (ROCE)
Return on equity (ROE)
Return on tangible equity (ROTE)
Risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC)
Risk return (RRR)
Sharpe
Short interest (SIR)
Sortino
Sustainable growth (SGR)
Treynor

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Dividend cover

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