DGEAF Diageo plc — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
Diageo plc, an international enterprise, operates through its various subsidiaries to manufacture, distribute, and commercialize a diverse portfolio of alcoholic beverages across the globe. Its extensive product lineup encompasses a wide array of spirits such as Scotch, various whiskies (including Canadian and American varieties), gin, vodka, rum, tequila, cachaca, brandy, and liqueurs like Irish cream and raki. Additionally, it supplies ready-to-drink options, wines, and beers, with its beer offerings extending to ciders and even non-alcoholic alternatives. Prominent brands within its portfolio include renowned whiskies like Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit, and Buchanan's; vodkas such as Smirnoff, Cîroc, and Ketel One; and tequilas including Casamigos, DeLeon, and Don Julio. Other key names are Captain Morgan, Baileys, Tanqueray, and Guinness. Diageo's operational footprint spans numerous regions, including North America, Europe, Turkey, the entire African continent, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Asia Pacific, demonstrating its broad international presence. Established in 1886, this enterprise maintains its principal office in London, United Kingdom.
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Research Scores
Scores describe this security's published financial data on a 0–100 scale using the formulas on our methodology pages. They are the same for every reader, are not a probability or a forecast, and are not a recommendation. Past dividend growth does not guarantee future increases. Report a data error.
How the Dividend Safety Score is built for DGEAF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 106% (FY2026) | 18 | 20% |
| FCF payout ratio | FCF payout ratio 58% (FY2026) | 90 | 25% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | Net debt / EBITDA 3.2x (FY2026) | 54 | 15% |
| Interest coverage | Interest coverage 5.3x (FY2026) | 68 | 10% |
| Dividend record | 17 years of uninterrupted regular payments | 79 | 20% |
| Earnings stability | Net income positive in 5 of the last 5 fiscal years (FY2022–FY2026) | 100 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Growth Score is built for DGEAF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | 5-year dividend CAGR 2.6% (2020–2025) | 52 | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | 3 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) | 45 | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 106% (FY2026) | 0 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | N/A (not used) | N/A | 15% |
| Revenue growth (3 years) | N/A (not used) | N/A | 10% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR 1.7% (2015–2025) | 42 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Value Score is built for DGEAF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yield vs own history | Current yield at the 13th percentile of its 120 month-end yields | 13 | 40% |
| P/E vs own 5-year median | P/E 31.5 is 1.74x its 5-year median of 18.1 | 0 | 25% |
| FCF yield | FCF yield 6.2% (FY2026) | 82 | 20% |
| P/E vs peers | P/E 31.5 vs peer median 23.2 (1.36x; 55 corporation / Consumer Defensive securities) | 17 | 15% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
Key Metrics
Current Yield
2.17%
At the Oct 30, 2026 price
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$0.5000
The latest declared regular dividend scaled to a full year by how often it's paid (for semi-annual payers, the latest two payments), adjusted for stock splits. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00. Special dividends are excluded.Frequency
S Semi-Annual
How often the dividend is paid, read from the dates of recent payments: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.RSI (14)
51
As of Oct 30, 2026
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$17.85 – $25.90
Closes through Oct 23, 2026
The lowest and highest price over the past year, showing where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio (TTM)
105.38%
12 months to Jun 30, 2026 (Q4 FY2026)
The share of earnings paid out as dividends over the trailing twelve months (TTM): dividends paid divided by net income across the company's four most recent reported quarters, dated by the latest quarter end. A fiscal-year tag such as FY2025 means only annual figures were available. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earned. It shows n/a for funds and when net income over the period was negative; for REITs and BDCs it is marked EPS-based, since they are judged on FFO/AFFO or net investment income instead.Years Paying
26
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book (TTM)
4.87
Price as of Oct 25, 2026; latest reported book value
Price-to-book ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by the latest reported book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
How often a record like this ends in a cut
DGEAF has raised its annual dividend in 12 separate years since October 2000, which ranks 932 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. No year in that span saw the annual total fall by more than a fifth.
Of the 878 companies we track with 10 to 24 years of increases, 661 — 75 per cent — also have at least one year in which the dividend fell by more than 20 per cent. Across every company with twenty years of comparable history, only 277 of 1078 (26 per cent) have never cut. A long record of increases is common; a record with no cut anywhere in it is not.
Measured from annual totals using split-adjusted amounts, comparing only consecutive years with the same number of payments — a stock split and a payment shifting across a year boundary both look like cuts otherwise. The current year is excluded as incomplete. How we measure a cut, and what the corrections change. Figures are for information only, not a view on any security.
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
DGEAF's dividend yield fell from 3.69% to 2.17% over the past ~90 days (-1.52 pp). Of that move, -1.43 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and -0.09 pp from the share price ($22.46 on Aug 03, 2026 → $23.00 on Oct 30, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 272 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), DGEAF's current yield is higher than approximately 0% of them. Our stored price history for DGEAF covers the past 13 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.3000 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Dec 03, 2026 |
| $0.2000 S | Regular | Feb 25, 2026 | Apr 17, 2026 | Apr 17, 2026 | Jun 04, 2026 |
| $0.6298 S | Regular | Aug 05, 2025 | Oct 17, 2025 | Oct 17, 2025 | Dec 04, 2025 |
| $0.4050 S | Regular | Feb 04, 2025 | Feb 28, 2025 | Feb 28, 2025 | Apr 24, 2025 |
| $0.6298 S | Regular | Jul 30, 2024 | Aug 30, 2024 | Aug 30, 2024 | Oct 17, 2024 |
| $0.4050 S | Regular | Jan 30, 2024 | Feb 29, 2024 | Mar 01, 2024 | Apr 17, 2024 |
| $0.6211 S | Regular | Aug 01, 2023 | Aug 24, 2023 | Aug 25, 2023 | Oct 12, 2023 |
| $0.3685 S | Regular | Jan 26, 2023 | Mar 02, 2023 | Mar 03, 2023 | Apr 13, 2023 |
| $0.5526 S | Regular | Jul 28, 2022 | Aug 25, 2022 | Aug 26, 2022 | Oct 20, 2022 |
| $0.3898 S | Regular | Jan 27, 2022 | Feb 24, 2022 | Feb 25, 2022 | Apr 07, 2022 |
| $0.6114 S | Regular | Jul 29, 2021 | Aug 26, 2021 | Aug 27, 2021 | Oct 07, 2021 |
| $0.3953 S | Regular | Jan 28, 2021 | Feb 25, 2021 | Feb 26, 2021 | Apr 08, 2021 |
| $0.5555 S | Regular | Aug 04, 2020 | Aug 13, 2020 | Aug 14, 2020 | Oct 08, 2020 |
| $0.3528 S | Regular | Jan 30, 2020 | Feb 27, 2020 | Feb 28, 2020 | Apr 09, 2020 |
| $0.5154 S | Regular | Jul 25, 2019 | Aug 08, 2019 | Aug 09, 2019 | Oct 03, 2019 |
| $0.3471 S | Regular | Dec 21, 2018 | Feb 28, 2019 | Mar 01, 2019 | Apr 11, 2019 |
| $0.5199 S | Regular | Apr 12, 2018 | Aug 09, 2018 | Aug 10, 2018 | Oct 04, 2018 |
| $0.3471 S | Regular | N/A | Feb 22, 2018 | Feb 23, 2018 | Apr 06, 2018 |
| $0.4996 S | Regular | Jul 27, 2017 | Aug 10, 2017 | Aug 11, 2017 | Oct 05, 2017 |
| $0.2974 S | Regular | Jan 26, 2017 | Feb 23, 2017 | Feb 24, 2017 | Apr 06, 2017 |
| $0.4743 S | Regular | Jul 28, 2016 | Aug 11, 2016 | Aug 12, 2016 | Oct 06, 2016 |
| $0.3153 S | Regular | Jan 28, 2016 | Feb 25, 2016 | Feb 26, 2016 | Apr 07, 2016 |
| $0.5443 S | Regular | Jul 30, 2015 | Aug 13, 2015 | Aug 14, 2015 | Oct 08, 2015 |
| $0.3313 S | Regular | Jan 29, 2015 | Feb 26, 2015 | Feb 27, 2015 | Apr 07, 2015 |
| $0.5342 S | Regular | Jul 31, 2014 | Aug 13, 2014 | Aug 15, 2014 | Oct 02, 2014 |
| $0.3278 S | Regular | Jan 30, 2014 | Feb 26, 2014 | Feb 28, 2014 | Apr 07, 2014 |
| $0.4550 S | Regular | Jul 31, 2013 | Aug 14, 2013 | Aug 16, 2013 | Oct 03, 2013 |
| $0.2740 S | Regular | Jan 31, 2013 | Feb 27, 2013 | Mar 01, 2013 | Apr 08, 2013 |
| $0.4279 S | Regular | Aug 23, 2012 | Sep 05, 2012 | Sep 07, 2012 | Oct 22, 2012 |
| $0.2652 S | Regular | Feb 09, 2012 | Feb 29, 2012 | Mar 02, 2012 | Apr 10, 2012 |
| $0.2767 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 07, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1722 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 02, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2350 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 08, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1622 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 03, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2467 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 09, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1544 A | Regular | N/A | Mar 04, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1822 A | One-off | N/A | Oct 09, 2000 | Oct 13, 2000 | Nov 15, 2000 |
Peer Comparison
Selected Beverages - Alcoholic dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF-A | Brown-Forman Corporation | 3.21% | 5.3% | 8 yrs | 77 |
| TSGTY | Tsingtao Brewery Company Limited | 6.34% | 31.8% | 8 yrs | 72 |
| ABEV | Ambev S.A. | 2.09% | 39.5% | 0 yrs | 61 |
| TAP-A | Molson Coors Beverage Company | 4.26% | 27.0% | 3 yrs | 56 |
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DGEAF dividend — frequently asked questions
Does Diageo plc pay a dividend?
Yes. Diageo plc (DGEAF) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $0.50 per share, a yield of approximately 2.17%.
What is Diageo plc's dividend yield?
Diageo plc's dividend yield is approximately 2.17%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does Diageo plc pay dividends?
Diageo plc pays dividends semi-annually — 2 times per year.
How long has Diageo plc paid dividends?
Diageo plc has 26 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Data updated Oct 30, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.