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MCSHF Metcash Limited — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates

Other OTC· Semi-Annual dividend· Common Stock · Consumer Defensive / Food Distribution

$1.79 ▲ $0.00(0.00%) as of Oct 30, 2026 06:20 UTC
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Metcash Limited is a prominent wholesale distribution and marketing firm active across Australia and New Zealand. Its business operations are structured into three key divisions: Food, Liquor, and Hardware. The Food segment is responsible for supplying a diverse array of goods and support services to independently owned supermarkets and convenience stores. Within its Liquor arm, the company handles the distribution of alcoholic beverages to independent retail locations and hospitality venues. The Hardware division not only supplies hardware items to independent shops but also manages its own network of retail stores. Metcash markets its extensive product portfolio under well-known brand names such as IGA, Foodland, Mitre 10, Home Hardware, Total Tools, Cellarbrations, IGA Liquor, and The Bottle-O. Established in 1920, Metcash Limited maintains its headquarters in Macquarie Park, Australia.

Dividend Snapshot

StatusRecently Increased
Last Dividend$0.0665Paid Aug 26, 2026
Forward Annual$0.12From the $0.0665 dividend declared Jun 22, 2026
FrequencySemi-Annual
Last Ex-DateJul 15, 2026The most recent ex-dividend date that has already passed.
1-Yr Growth6.5%Annual totals, 2024–2025

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

70/100

Strong indicators

Complete data

Dividend Growth Score

43/100

Moderate growth record

Complete data

Dividend Value Score

Not Rated

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

DividendRank

56/100

Middle of the scale

Partial data

How the Dividend Safety Score is built for MCSHF
Dividend Safety Score inputs, points and weights
InputValuePointsWeight
Earnings payout ratioEarnings payout ratio 69% (FY2026) 66 20%
FCF payout ratioFCF payout ratio 51% (FY2026) 99 25%
Net debt / EBITDANet debt / EBITDA 2.5x (FY2026) 72 15%
Interest coverageInterest coverage 4.1x (FY2026) 61 10%
Dividend record9 years of uninterrupted regular payments; last cut Dec 16, 2024 (-26.6%), within 3 years: capped at 25 25 20%
Earnings stabilityNet 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 MCSHF
Dividend Growth Score inputs, points and weights
InputValuePointsWeight
5-year dividend growth5-year dividend CAGR 2.4% (2020–2025) 48 25%
Consecutive annual increases1 consecutive annual increase (through 2025) 25 20%
Payout headroomHeadroom from the earnings payout ratio 69% (FY2026) 54 20%
Earnings per share growth (3 years)EPS CAGR -2.5% (FY2023–FY2026) 27 15%
Revenue growth (3 years)Revenue CAGR 3.1% (FY2023–FY2026) 67 10%
10-year dividend growthN/A (not used) N/A 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

6.87%

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

$0.1230

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)

94

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

$1.48 – $2.45

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)

69.44%

12 months to Apr 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

25

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)

2.06

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 70/100, yield 6.87%.
A Accelerating
Dividend growth has stalled — 1 consecutive annual increase(s), under the 3 this check looks for.
F Flawless
The record shows a gap in the regular dividend of more than 1.5 times its usual interval (a payment was due around June 2015).
E Enduring
25 years of dividend payments on record.

Quote & Key Data

ExchangeOther OTCThe stock exchange where the shares trade, such as NYSE or Nasdaq.
Volume500Oct 23, 2026 sessionHow 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$1.79Oct 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$1.79 – $1.79Oct 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$1.79Close of Oct 22, 2026The closing price from the session before the one dated beside these figures.
Market Cap$1.97BAs of Oct 30, 2026The company's total market value (share price times shares outstanding) on the date shown.
Shares Out1.10BImplied by market cap, Oct 30, 2026Shares outstanding implied by the market cap and share price on the date shown.
EPS (TTM)AUD 0.2512 months to Apr 30, 2026 (Q4 FY2026); reported in AUDEarnings 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)12.8Price as of Oct 25, 2026; earnings to Apr 30, 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-DateJul 15, 2026Paid Aug 26, 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)-7.8%Annual totals, 2022–2025The dividend's average annual growth rate over the period, compounded.
5-Yr Growth (CAGR)2.4%Annual totals, 2020–2025The dividend's average annual growth rate over the period, compounded.
Consecutive Increases1 yrAnnual totals through 2025The number of consecutive years the dividend has increased.

How often a record like this ends in a cut

Years the payout rose15Since Jun 2001
Rank among payers737of 2,430 with a record
Years it fell over 20%3in 22 comparable years
Of peers with 10 to 24 up years75%also cut at some point

MCSHF has raised its annual dividend in 15 separate years since June 2001, which ranks 737 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. In 3 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)

MCSHF's dividend yield rose from 6.87% to 6.87% over the past ~90 days (+0.00 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and +0.00 pp from the share price ($1.79 on Aug 03, 2026 → $1.79 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

Current6.87%
1-Yr Average6.31%
Low / High4.74% – 8.31%
Percentile51%

Across 272 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), MCSHF's current yield is higher than approximately 51% of them. Our stored price history for MCSHF 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
$0.0665 S Regular Jun 22, 2026 Jul 15, 2026 Jul 15, 2026 Aug 26, 2026
$0.0660 S Regular N/A Jul 14, 2026 Jul 15, 2026 Aug 26, 2026
$0.0565 S Regular Dec 01, 2025 Dec 15, 2025 Dec 15, 2025 Jan 28, 2026
$0.0620 S Regular Jun 23, 2025 Jul 16, 2025 Jul 16, 2025 Aug 27, 2025
$0.0541 S Regular Dec 02, 2024 Dec 16, 2024 Dec 16, 2024 Jan 29, 2025
$0.0572 S Regular Jun 24, 2024 Jul 17, 2024 Jul 17, 2024 Aug 27, 2024
$0.0737 S Regular Dec 04, 2023 Dec 14, 2023 Dec 15, 2023 Jan 30, 2024
$0.0750 S Regular Jun 26, 2023 Jul 18, 2023 Jul 19, 2023 Aug 21, 2023
$0.0767 S Regular Dec 05, 2022 Dec 20, 2022 Dec 21, 2022 Jan 30, 2023
$0.0745 S Regular Jun 27, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 Jul 13, 2022 Aug 10, 2022
$0.0749 S Regular Dec 06, 2021 Dec 21, 2021 Dec 22, 2021 Jan 28, 2022
$0.0710 S Regular Jun 28, 2021 Jul 01, 2021 Jul 02, 2021 Aug 11, 2021
$0.0602 S Regular Dec 07, 2020 Dec 22, 2020 Dec 23, 2020 Jan 29, 2021
$0.0453 S Regular Jun 22, 2020 Jul 07, 2020 Jul 08, 2020 Aug 05, 2020
$0.0411 S Regular Dec 05, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 Dec 18, 2019 Jan 23, 2020
$0.0485 S Regular Jun 24, 2019 Jul 09, 2019 Jul 10, 2019 Aug 07, 2019
$0.0470 S Regular Dec 03, 2018 Dec 13, 2018 Dec 14, 2018 Jan 18, 2019
$0.0522 S Regular Jun 25, 2018 Jul 10, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 Aug 08, 2018
$0.0460 S Regular Dec 04, 2017 Dec 14, 2017 Dec 15, 2017 Jan 19, 2018
$0.0341 S Regular Jun 26, 2017 Jul 06, 2017 Jul 07, 2017 Jul 27, 2017
$0.0546 S Regular Dec 01, 2014 Dec 04, 2014 Dec 08, 2014 Jan 09, 2015
$0.0847 S Regular N/A Jun 27, 2014 Jul 01, 2014 Jul 25, 2014
$0.0845 S Regular N/A Dec 27, 2013 Jan 03, 2014 Jan 24, 2014
$0.1512 S Regular N/A Jun 28, 2013 Jul 04, 2013 Jul 12, 2013
$0.1207 S Regular N/A Dec 10, 2012 Dec 14, 2012 Jan 11, 2013
$0.1698 S Regular N/A Jul 03, 2012 Jul 09, 2012 Jul 16, 2012
$0.1170 S Regular N/A Dec 09, 2011 Dec 15, 2011 Jan 06, 2012
$0.1694 S Regular N/A Jun 20, 2011 Jun 24, 2011 Jul 08, 2011
$0.1081 S Regular N/A Dec 09, 2010 Dec 15, 2010 Jan 07, 2011
$0.1305 S Regular N/A Jun 18, 2010 Jun 24, 2010 Jul 07, 2010
$0.1008 S Regular N/A Dec 10, 2009 Dec 16, 2009 Jan 08, 2010
$0.1129 S Regular N/A Jun 19, 2009 Jun 25, 2009 Jul 08, 2009
$0.0656 S Regular N/A Dec 10, 2008 Dec 16, 2008 Jan 08, 2009
$0.1142 S Regular N/A Jun 23, 2008 Jun 27, 2008 Jul 10, 2008
$0.0790 S Regular N/A Dec 07, 2007 Dec 13, 2007 Jan 03, 2008
$0.0847 S Regular N/A Jun 25, 2007 Jun 29, 2007 Jul 11, 2007
$0.0551 S Regular N/A Dec 04, 2006 Dec 08, 2006 Jan 03, 2007
$0.0439 S Regular N/A Jun 26, 2006 Jun 30, 2006 Jul 12, 2006
$0.0408 S Regular N/A Nov 03, 2005 Nov 09, 2005 Dec 02, 2005
$0.0317 S Regular N/A Mar 17, 2005 Mar 23, 2005 Mar 29, 2005
$0.0427 S Regular N/A Dec 01, 2004 Dec 07, 2004 Dec 15, 2004
$0.0417 S Regular N/A Jun 24, 2004 Jun 30, 2004 Jul 12, 2004
$0.0359 S Regular N/A Nov 25, 2003 Dec 01, 2003 Dec 15, 2003
$0.0306 S Regular N/A Jun 24, 2003 Jun 30, 2003 Jul 12, 2003
$0.0224 S Regular N/A Nov 26, 2002 Dec 02, 2002 Dec 16, 2002
$0.0172 S Regular N/A Jun 24, 2002 Jun 28, 2002 Jul 12, 2002
$0.0104 S Regular N/A Nov 26, 2001 Nov 30, 2001 Dec 10, 2001
$0.0077 S Regular N/A Jun 25, 2001 Jun 29, 2001 Jul 12, 2001

Peer Comparison

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

TickerNameYield5-Yr GrowthStreakRank
SYY Sysco Corporation 2.67% 3.1% 37 yrs 74

MCSHF dividend — frequently asked questions

Does Metcash Limited pay a dividend?

Yes. Metcash Limited (MCSHF) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $0.12 per share, a yield of approximately 6.87%.

What is Metcash Limited's dividend yield?

Metcash Limited's dividend yield is approximately 6.87%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.

How often does Metcash Limited pay dividends?

Metcash Limited pays dividends semi-annually — 2 times per year.

How long has Metcash Limited paid dividends?

Metcash Limited has 25 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.