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HKGEF Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates

Other OTC· Semi-Annual dividend· Common Stock · Communication Services / Publishing

$0.07 ▲ $0.02(31.82%) as of Oct 30, 2026 06:20 UTC
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Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited functions as an investment holding company, overseeing a diverse array of multi-media operations primarily centered in Hong Kong. Its activities are organized into two main divisions: Media; and Financial News Agency, Information, and Solutions. The Media segment is involved in publishing newspapers, magazines, and books through both print and digital channels, encompassing online platforms for recruitment, financial news, and lifestyle content. The Financial News Agency, Information, and Solutions segment delivers electronic data and solutions for financial and property markets, alongside subscription-based information services and their associated maintenance. The company's activities further extend to providing recruitment advertising and professional training, offering equities and derivatives trading, operating a software research and development center, managing a health portal, and holding various properties. Established in 1988, the firm's main office is located in North Point, Hong Kong.

Dividend Snapshot

StatusReduced
Last Dividend$0.0051Paid Sep 04, 2026
Forward Annual$0.01From the $0.0051 dividend declared Jun 22, 2026
FrequencySemi-Annual
Last Ex-DateAug 17, 2026The most recent ex-dividend date that has already passed.
1-Yr Growth-20.2%Annual totals, 2024–2025
10-Yr Growth0.0%Annual totals, 2015–2025

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.

Dividend Safety Score

24/100

Weak indicators

Most data available

Dividend Growth Score

18/100

Very weak growth record

Complete data

Dividend Value Score

Not Rated

only 40% of the inputs available (60% needed)

DividendRank

30/100

Lower middle of the scale

Partial data

How the Dividend Safety Score is built for HKGEF
Dividend Safety Score inputs, points and weights
InputValuePointsWeight
Earnings payout ratioNet loss to common shareholders (FY2026): dividends not covered by earnings 0 20%
FCF payout ratioFree cash flow negative (FY2026) 0 25%
Net debt / EBITDAN/A (not used) N/A 15%
Interest coverageInterest coverage -166.9x (FY2026) 0 10%
Dividend record20 years of uninterrupted regular payments 83 20%
Earnings stabilityNet income positive in 3 of the last 5 fiscal years (FY2022–FY2026) 40 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 HKGEF
Dividend Growth Score inputs, points and weights
InputValuePointsWeight
5-year dividend growth5-year dividend CAGR 2.5% (2020–2025) 50 25%
Consecutive annual increases0 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) 10 20%
Payout headroomNet loss to common shareholders (FY2026): no headroom 0 20%
Earnings per share growth (3 years)EPS -0.10 (FY2026) from 0.06 (FY2023): negative at the end of the 3 years 0 15%
Revenue growth (3 years)Revenue CAGR -11.0% (FY2023–FY2026) 10 10%
10-year dividend growth10-year dividend CAGR 0.0% (2015–2025) 25 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.

Key Metrics

Current Yield

12.41%

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

$0.0090

Declared Jun 22, 2026

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)

46

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

$0.06 – $0.10

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)

n/a

12 months to Mar 31, 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

20

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)

0.36

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

S.A.F.E. is a set of four checks on a dividend's record and the company's data, the same test used across the screener and our ranked lists. Solid: a Dividend Safety Score of 70+ and a yield of 2%+. Accelerating: at least three consecutive completed calendar years of higher total regular dividends. Flawless: since 1990, no calendar year whose total regular dividend fell more than 20% below the year before, and no suspension. Enduring: at least 20 years between the first and latest dividend in our records. All four met earns the S.A.F.E. flag.
S Solid
Below the Solid check (Dividend Safety Score 70+ and yield 2%+): Dividend Safety Score 24/100, yield 12.41%.
A Accelerating
Dividend growth has stalled — 0 consecutive annual increase(s), under the 3 this check looks for.
F Flawless
A calendar year's regular dividend total fell more than 20% below the year before.
E Enduring
20 years of dividend payments on record.

Quote & Key Data

ExchangeOther OTCThe stock exchange where the shares trade, such as NYSE or Nasdaq.
VolumeN/AHow many shares changed hands in the trading session dated beside this figure, a rough read on trading activity. Daily bars are refreshed on a slower cycle than the quoted price, so this session can be older than the price above.
Open$0.07Oct 23, 2026 sessionThe price at the start of the trading session dated beside this figure, which can be earlier than the session the quoted price comes from.
Day Range$0.07 – $0.07Oct 23, 2026 sessionThe lowest and highest price during the trading session dated beside this figure, which can be earlier than the session the quoted price comes from.
Prev Close$0.07Close of Oct 22, 2026The closing price from the session before the one dated beside these figures.
Market Cap$31.29MAs of Oct 30, 2026The company's total market value (share price times shares outstanding) on the date shown.
Shares Out431.60MImplied by market cap, Oct 30, 2026Shares outstanding implied by the market cap and share price on the date shown.
EPS (TTM)HKD -0.1012 months to Mar 31, 2026 (Q4 FY2026); reported in HKDEarnings per share over the trailing twelve months (TTM), labeled with the end date of the latest reported quarter and shown in the company's reporting currency. Dividends are paid out of these earnings.
P/E (TTM)-6.1Price as of Oct 25, 2026; earnings to Mar 31, 2026Price-to-earnings ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by trailing-twelve-month earnings per share. A rough gauge of how richly the stock is valued.
Last Ex-DateAug 17, 2026Paid Sep 04, 2026The most recent ex-dividend date that has already passed.
Next Ex-DateN/ANone declared yetThe ex-dividend date of the next payment the company has declared, or that is scheduled when no declaration is on file. Future dates our data provider only projects are not shown.

Dividend Growth

3-Yr Growth (CAGR)-5.5%Annual totals, 2022–2025The dividend's average annual growth rate over the period, compounded.
5-Yr Growth (CAGR)2.5%Annual totals, 2020–2025The dividend's average annual growth rate over the period, compounded.
Consecutive Increases0 yrsAnnual totals through 2025The number of consecutive years the dividend has increased.

How often a record like this ends in a cut

Years the payout rose12Since Jul 2006
Rank among payers932of 2,430 with a record
Years it fell over 20%4in 19 comparable years
Of peers with 10 to 24 up years75%also cut at some point

HKGEF has raised its annual dividend in 12 separate years since July 2006, which ranks 932 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. In 4 years the annual total fell 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)

HKGEF's dividend yield rose from 9.68% to 12.41% over the past ~90 days (+2.74 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and +2.74 pp from the share price ($0.09 on Aug 03, 2026 → $0.07 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

Current12.41%
Low / High9.68% – 16.36%
Percentile99%

Across 178 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), HKGEF's current yield is higher than approximately 99% of them. Our stored price history for HKGEF 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
$0.0051 S Regular Jun 22, 2026 Aug 17, 2026 Aug 17, 2026 Sep 04, 2026
$0.0051 S Regular N/A Aug 13, 2026 Aug 17, 2026 Sep 04, 2026
$0.0039 S Regular Nov 24, 2025 Dec 08, 2025 Dec 08, 2025 Dec 19, 2025
$0.0064 S Regular Jun 13, 2025 Aug 11, 2025 Aug 11, 2025 Sep 05, 2025
$0.0039 S Regular Nov 25, 2024 Dec 11, 2024 Dec 11, 2024 Dec 20, 2024
$0.0090 S Regular Jun 24, 2024 Aug 12, 2024 Aug 12, 2024 Sep 06, 2024
$0.0038 S Regular Nov 20, 2023 Dec 05, 2023 Dec 06, 2023 Dec 21, 2023
$0.0090 S Regular Jun 26, 2023 Aug 11, 2023 Aug 14, 2023 Sep 11, 2023
$0.0039 S Regular Nov 21, 2022 Dec 06, 2022 Dec 07, 2022 Dec 23, 2022
$0.0083 S Regular Jun 27, 2022 Aug 19, 2022 Aug 22, 2022 Sep 09, 2022
$0.0038 S Regular Nov 22, 2021 Dec 07, 2021 Dec 08, 2021 Dec 17, 2021
$0.0077 S Regular Jun 21, 2021 Aug 13, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 Sep 03, 2021
$0.0026 S Regular Nov 23, 2020 Dec 08, 2020 Dec 09, 2020 Dec 18, 2020
$0.0065 S Regular Jun 22, 2020 Aug 14, 2020 Aug 17, 2020 Sep 25, 2020
$0.0026 S Regular Nov 25, 2019 Dec 10, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 Dec 20, 2019
$0.0083 S Regular Jun 24, 2019 Aug 12, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 Sep 27, 2019
$0.0026 S Regular Nov 26, 2018 Dec 10, 2018 Dec 11, 2018 Dec 21, 2018
$0.0076 S Regular Jun 25, 2018 Aug 16, 2018 Aug 17, 2018 Sep 28, 2018
$0.0026 S Regular Nov 27, 2017 Dec 11, 2017 Dec 12, 2017 Dec 22, 2017
$0.0058 S Regular Jun 26, 2017 Aug 17, 2017 Aug 18, 2017 Sep 29, 2017
$0.0026 S Regular Nov 21, 2016 Dec 05, 2016 Dec 06, 2016 Dec 16, 2016
$0.0090 S Regular Jun 20, 2016 Aug 11, 2016 Aug 12, 2016 Sep 30, 2016
$0.0026 S Regular Nov 23, 2015 Dec 07, 2015 Dec 08, 2015 Dec 18, 2015
$0.0077 S Regular Jun 22, 2015 Aug 13, 2015 Aug 14, 2015 Sep 25, 2015
$0.0026 S Regular Nov 24, 2014 Dec 08, 2014 Dec 09, 2014 Dec 19, 2014
$0.0065 S Regular Jun 23, 2014 Aug 14, 2014 Aug 15, 2014 Sep 26, 2014
$0.0013 S Regular Nov 25, 2013 Dec 09, 2013 Dec 10, 2013 Dec 20, 2013
$0.0064 S Regular Jun 20, 2013 Aug 05, 2013 Aug 06, 2013 Sep 13, 2013
$0.0013 S Regular Nov 19, 2012 Dec 03, 2012 Dec 04, 2012 Dec 13, 2012
$0.0075 S Regular Jun 25, 2012 Aug 06, 2012 Aug 07, 2012 Sep 07, 2012
$0.0039 S Regular Nov 21, 2011 Dec 05, 2011 Dec 06, 2011 Dec 15, 2011
$0.0230 S Special Jun 20, 2011 Jul 29, 2011 Aug 01, 2011 Aug 19, 2011
$0.0053 S Regular Nov 15, 2010 Nov 29, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 Dec 08, 2010
$0.0115 S Special N/A Jul 28, 2010 Jul 29, 2010 Aug 06, 2010
$0.0071 S Regular N/A Jul 28, 2009 Jul 29, 2009 Aug 06, 2009
$0.0130 S Regular N/A Jul 22, 2008 Jul 23, 2008 Jul 31, 2008
$0.0101 S Regular N/A Jul 23, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 Jul 31, 2007
$0.0073 S Regular N/A Jul 19, 2006 Jul 20, 2006 Jul 31, 2006

Peer Comparison

Selected Publishing dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.

TickerNameYield5-Yr GrowthStreakRank
NYT The New York Times Company 1.33% 23.8% 7 yrs 87
SHXWF Xinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. 8.54% 14.7% 3 yrs 76
WLYB John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2.83% 0.7% 32 yrs 76
WLY John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2.78% 0.7% 32 yrs 75

HKGEF dividend — frequently asked questions

Does Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited pay a dividend?

Yes. Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited (HKGEF) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $0.01 per share, a yield of approximately 12.41%.

What is Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited's dividend yield?

Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited's dividend yield is approximately 12.41%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.

How often does Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited pay dividends?

Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited pays dividends semi-annually — 2 times per year.

How long has Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited paid dividends?

Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited has 20 years of dividend payments on record.

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.