NXGPF NEXT plc — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
NEXT plc engages in the retail of clothing, homeware, and beauty products in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and internationally. It operates through NEXT Online, NEXT Retail, NEXT Finance, Total Platform, and Other Business Activities segments. The company offers NEXT branded products; and women's, men's, children's fashion clothing, and accessories; and third-party branded products. It also provides consumer credit; services to third-party brands, including websites, marketing, warehousing, distribution networks, and contact centers; and property management, which holds and leases properties. The company operates through retail stores, online retail platforms, and franchise stores. The company was formerly known as J Hepworth & Son and changed its name to NEXT plc in 1986. NEXT plc was founded in 1864 and is headquartered in Enderby, the 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.
Not Rated
How the Dividend Safety Score is built for NXGPF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 32% (FY2026) | 100 | 20% |
| FCF payout ratio | FCF payout ratio 29% (FY2026) | 100 | 25% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | Net debt / EBITDA 1.1x (FY2026) | 99 | 15% |
| Interest coverage | Interest coverage 13.1x (FY2026) | 96 | 10% |
| Dividend record | 4 years of uninterrupted regular payments; suspension Jun 5, 2020, within 10 years: capped at 20 | 20 | 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 NXGPF
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | N/A (not used) | N/A | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | 3 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) | 45 | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 32% (FY2026) | 100 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | EPS CAGR 9.3% (FY2023–FY2026) | 97 | 15% |
| Revenue growth (3 years) | Revenue CAGR 11.1% (FY2023–FY2026) | 100 | 10% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR -0.5% (2015–2025) | 23 | 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
1.77%
At the Oct 29, 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
$3.5794
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)
77
As of Oct 29, 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
$165.06 – $210.30
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)
30.85%
12 months to Jul 31, 2026 (Q2 FY2027)
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
40
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)
11.39
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
NXGPF has raised its annual dividend in 15 separate years since April 1986, which ranks 737 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. In 8 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)
NXGPF's dividend yield rose from 1.75% to 1.77% over the past ~90 days (+0.02 pp). Of that move, +0.00 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and +0.02 pp from the share price ($205.01 on Aug 03, 2026 → $202.73 on Oct 29, 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), NXGPF's current yield is higher than approximately 15% of them. Our stored price history for NXGPF 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1.3124 S | Regular upcoming, not yet declared | N/A | Dec 03, 2026 | Dec 04, 2026 | Jan 04, 2027 |
| $2.4186 S | Regular | Mar 26, 2026 | Jul 02, 2026 | Jul 03, 2026 | Aug 03, 2026 |
| $4.8161 S | Special | N/A | Jan 16, 2026 | Jan 15, 2026 | Jan 28, 2026 |
| $1.1608 S | Regular | Sep 18, 2025 | Dec 05, 2025 | Dec 05, 2025 | Jan 05, 2026 |
| $2.1572 S | Regular | Mar 27, 2025 | Jul 03, 2025 | Jul 04, 2025 | Aug 01, 2025 |
| $0.9558 S | Regular | Sep 19, 2024 | Dec 06, 2024 | Dec 06, 2024 | Jan 03, 2025 |
| $1.8058 S | Regular | Mar 21, 2024 | Jul 05, 2024 | Jul 05, 2024 | Aug 01, 2024 |
| $0.8299 S | Regular | Sep 21, 2023 | Dec 07, 2023 | Dec 08, 2023 | Jan 03, 2024 |
| $1.7806 S | Regular | Mar 29, 2023 | Jul 06, 2023 | Jul 07, 2023 | Aug 01, 2023 |
| $0.8097 S | Regular | Sep 29, 2022 | Dec 01, 2022 | Dec 02, 2022 | Jan 03, 2023 |
| $1.5232 S | Regular | Mar 24, 2022 | Jul 07, 2022 | Jul 08, 2022 | Aug 01, 2022 |
| $2.1976 S | Regular | Jan 06, 2022 | Jan 13, 2022 | Jan 14, 2022 | Jan 28, 2022 |
| $1.5216 S | Regular | N/A | Aug 12, 2021 | Aug 13, 2021 | Sep 03, 2021 |
| $0.7564 S | Regular | N/A | Dec 05, 2019 | Dec 06, 2019 | Jan 02, 2020 |
| $1.3824 S | Regular | Mar 21, 2019 | Jul 04, 2019 | Jul 05, 2019 | Aug 01, 2019 |
| $1.3824 S | Regular | Mar 21, 2019 | Jul 03, 2019 | Jul 05, 2019 | Aug 01, 2019 |
| $0.7030 S | Regular | N/A | Dec 06, 2018 | Dec 07, 2018 | Jan 02, 2019 |
| $1.3889 S | Regular | Mar 23, 2018 | Jul 05, 2018 | Jul 06, 2018 | Aug 01, 2018 |
| $0.6080 S | Regular | N/A | Jan 04, 2018 | Jan 05, 2018 | Jan 25, 2018 |
| $0.7111 A | Regular | Sep 14, 2017 | Dec 07, 2017 | Dec 08, 2017 | Jan 02, 2018 |
| $0.5913 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 05, 2017 | Oct 06, 2017 | Nov 01, 2017 |
| $1.9447 S | Regular | Jun 30, 2017 | Jul 06, 2017 | Jul 07, 2017 | Aug 01, 2017 |
| $0.5618 Q | Regular | Mar 23, 2017 | Apr 06, 2017 | Apr 07, 2017 | May 02, 2017 |
| $0.6655 S | Regular | Sep 15, 2016 | Dec 08, 2016 | Dec 09, 2016 | Jan 03, 2017 |
| $1.3572 S | Regular | Mar 24, 2016 | Jul 07, 2016 | Jul 08, 2016 | Aug 01, 2016 |
| $0.8636 M | Regular | Jan 05, 2016 | Jan 14, 2016 | Jan 15, 2016 | Feb 01, 2016 |
| $0.8037 I | Special | Sep 10, 2015 | Dec 10, 2015 | Dec 11, 2015 | Jan 04, 2016 |
| $0.9190 Q | Regular | Jul 28, 2015 | Oct 08, 2015 | Oct 09, 2015 | Nov 02, 2015 |
| $1.5375 Q | Regular | Mar 19, 2015 | Jul 09, 2015 | Jul 10, 2015 | Aug 03, 2015 |
| $0.8842 Q | Regular | Feb 05, 2015 | Apr 09, 2015 | Apr 10, 2015 | May 01, 2015 |
| $0.7584 I | Regular | Dec 30, 2014 | Jan 15, 2015 | Jan 16, 2015 | Feb 02, 2015 |
| $0.7850 S | Regular | Sep 11, 2014 | Dec 04, 2014 | Dec 05, 2014 | Jan 02, 2015 |
| $1.5930 Q | Regular | Mar 20, 2014 | Jul 09, 2014 | Jul 11, 2014 | Aug 01, 2014 |
| $0.8317 Q | Regular | Jan 31, 2014 | Apr 02, 2014 | Apr 04, 2014 | May 01, 2014 |
| $0.8176 I | Regular | Jan 03, 2014 | Jan 15, 2014 | Jan 17, 2014 | Feb 03, 2014 |
| $0.5822 S | Regular | Sep 12, 2013 | Nov 20, 2013 | Nov 22, 2013 | Jan 02, 2014 |
| $1.1344 S | Regular | Mar 21, 2013 | Jun 26, 2013 | Jun 28, 2013 | Aug 01, 2013 |
| $0.4940 S | Regular | Sep 13, 2012 | Nov 21, 2012 | Nov 23, 2012 | Jan 02, 2013 |
| $0.9718 S | Regular | Mar 22, 2012 | Jun 27, 2012 | Jun 29, 2012 | Aug 01, 2012 |
| $0.3080 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 23, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.5937 S | Regular | N/A | May 25, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2800 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 24, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.5265 S | Regular | N/A | May 26, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2128 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 25, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.4144 A | Regular | N/A | May 27, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1152 A | One-off | N/A | Dec 04, 2000 | Dec 08, 2000 | Jan 02, 2001 |
| $0.0838 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 25, 1996 | Dec 03, 1996 | Jan 02, 1997 |
| $0.1212 S | Regular | N/A | May 28, 1996 | Jun 05, 1996 | Jul 01, 1996 |
| $0.0583 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 27, 1995 | Dec 05, 1995 | Jan 02, 1996 |
| $0.0979 S | Regular | N/A | May 15, 1995 | Jun 02, 1995 | Jul 03, 1995 |
| $0.0438 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 14, 1994 | Dec 01, 1994 | Jan 03, 1995 |
| $0.0601 S | Regular | N/A | May 16, 1994 | Jun 03, 1994 | Jul 01, 1994 |
| $0.0223 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 15, 1993 | Dec 03, 1993 | Jan 04, 1994 |
| $0.0308 S | Regular | N/A | May 24, 1993 | Jun 04, 1993 | Jul 01, 1993 |
| $0.0076 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 16, 1992 | Dec 04, 1992 | Jan 04, 1993 |
| $0.0135 A | Regular | N/A | May 11, 1992 | Jun 03, 1992 | Jul 01, 1992 |
| $0.0070 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 19, 1990 | Nov 29, 1990 | Jan 02, 1991 |
| $0.0200 S | Regular | N/A | May 29, 1990 | Jun 07, 1990 | Jul 02, 1990 |
| $0.0270 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 13, 1989 | Nov 30, 1989 | Jan 02, 1990 |
| $0.0470 S | Regular | N/A | May 22, 1989 | Jun 02, 1989 | Jul 03, 1989 |
| $0.0270 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 03, 1988 | Oct 21, 1988 | Jan 03, 1989 |
| $0.0470 S | Regular | N/A | Apr 25, 1988 | May 13, 1988 | Jun 30, 1988 |
| $0.0250 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 28, 1987 | Oct 16, 1987 | Dec 11, 1987 |
| $0.0150 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 23, 1987 | Apr 10, 1987 | Jul 01, 1987 |
| $0.0370 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 10, 1986 | Nov 28, 1986 | Jan 02, 1987 |
| $0.0130 S | Regular | N/A | Apr 14, 1986 | May 02, 1986 | Jul 01, 1986 |
Peer Comparison
Selected Apparel - Retail dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRCOF | Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. | 0.80% | 17.5% | 4 yrs | 81 |
| FRCOY | Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. | 0.80% | 16.9% | 4 yrs | 80 |
| GAP | The Gap, Inc. | 3.18% | 21.6% | 1 yr | 73 |
| MRPLY | Mr Price Group Limited | 5.45% | N/A | 3 yrs | 72 |
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NXGPF dividend — frequently asked questions
Does NEXT plc pay a dividend?
Yes. NEXT plc (NXGPF) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $3.58 per share, a yield of approximately 1.77%.
What is NEXT plc's dividend yield?
NEXT plc's dividend yield is approximately 1.77%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does NEXT plc pay dividends?
NEXT plc pays dividends semi-annually — 2 times per year.
When is NEXT plc's next ex-dividend date?
The next scheduled ex-dividend date for NEXT plc is December 3, 2026; no declaration is on file yet. The associated payment is $1.3124 per share; you must own the shares before the ex-dividend date to receive it.
How long has NEXT plc paid dividends?
NEXT plc has 40 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Data updated Oct 29, 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.