SMSMY Sims Limited — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
Sims Ltd. engages in the recycling of metal and electronics. It operates through the following segments: North America Metals (NAM), Australia, New Zealand Metals (ANZ), UK Metal (UK), Global Trading, Investment in SA Recycling (SAR), Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS), and Unallocated. The NAM segment consists of subsidiaries and joint ventures in the U.S. and Canada, which perform ferrous and non-ferrous secondary recycling functions. The ANZ segment includes subsidiaries and joint arrangements in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea, which perform ferrous and non-ferrous secondary recycling functions. The UK segment consists of subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, which perform ferrous and non-ferrous secondary recycling functions. The Global Trading segment consists of the group’s ferrous and non-ferrous marketing subsidiaries that coordinate sales of ferrous bulk cargo shipments, non-ferrous sales into primarily China and Southeast Asia, and brokerage sales on behalf of third and related parties. The SAR segment consists of the group’s share of results from its investment in the SA Recycling joint venture. The SLS segment consists of subsidiaries, which provide electronic recycling solutions in the following countries: Australia, Germany, India, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The Unallocated segment contains unallocated corporate costs, interests in a joint venture in Australia, Sims Municipal Recycling, and Global Sustainability Insurance Corporation. The company was founded by Albert George Sims in 1917 and is headquartered in Mascot, Australia.
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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.
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How the Dividend Safety Score is built for SMSMY
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 21% (FY2026) | 100 | 20% |
| FCF payout ratio | FCF payout ratio 24% (FY2026) | 100 | 25% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | Net debt / EBITDA 1.1x (FY2026) | 98 | 15% |
| Interest coverage | Interest coverage 5.3x (FY2026) | 68 | 10% |
| Dividend record | 1 year of uninterrupted regular payments; last cut Mar 3, 2023 (-69.5%), within 10 years: capped at 50; suspension Apr 2, 2024, within 3 years: capped at 10 | 10 | 20% |
| Earnings stability | Net 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 SMSMY
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | 5-year dividend CAGR 33.1% (2020–2025) | 100 | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | N/A (not used) | N/A | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 21% (FY2026) | 100 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | EPS CAGR 10.2% (FY2023–FY2026) | 100 | 15% |
| Revenue growth (3 years) | Revenue CAGR -1.0% (FY2023–FY2026) | 34 | 10% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR -3.8% (2015–2025) | 6 | 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
1.63%
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
$0.2374
Declared Aug 18, 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)
41
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
$8.99 – $20.73
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)
21.28%
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
31
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)
1.40
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
SMSMY has raised its annual dividend in 14 separate years since April 1995, which ranks 787 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)
SMSMY's dividend yield rose from 0.95% to 1.63% over the past ~90 days (+0.68 pp). Of that move, +0.37 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and +0.31 pp from the share price ($19.40 on Aug 03, 2026 → $14.57 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), SMSMY's current yield is higher than approximately 94% of them. Our stored price history for SMSMY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.1381 S | Regular | Aug 18, 2026 | Oct 01, 2026 | Oct 01, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 |
| $0.0994 S | Regular | Feb 17, 2026 | Mar 04, 2026 | Mar 04, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 |
| $0.0846 S | Regular | Sep 09, 2025 | Oct 01, 2025 | Oct 01, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 |
| $0.0632 S | Regular | Feb 25, 2025 | Mar 07, 2025 | Mar 07, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 |
| $0.0667 A | Regular | Sep 12, 2024 | Oct 02, 2024 | Oct 02, 2024 | Oct 28, 2024 |
| $0.1329 S | Regular | Aug 15, 2023 | Oct 02, 2023 | Oct 03, 2023 | Oct 30, 2023 |
| $0.0934 S | Regular | Feb 14, 2023 | Mar 03, 2023 | Mar 06, 2023 | Apr 03, 2023 |
| $0.3139 S | Regular | Aug 16, 2022 | Oct 03, 2022 | Oct 04, 2022 | Oct 31, 2022 |
| $0.3057 S | Regular | Feb 16, 2022 | Mar 04, 2022 | Mar 07, 2022 | Apr 04, 2022 |
| $0.2242 S | Regular | Aug 19, 2021 | Oct 04, 2021 | Oct 05, 2021 | Nov 01, 2021 |
| $0.0920 A | Regular | Feb 17, 2021 | Mar 04, 2021 | Mar 05, 2021 | Apr 02, 2021 |
| $0.0353 S | Regular | Feb 19, 2020 | Mar 06, 2020 | Mar 09, 2020 | Apr 03, 2020 |
| $0.1297 S | Regular | Sep 12, 2019 | Oct 02, 2019 | Oct 03, 2019 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| $0.1631 S | Regular | Feb 25, 2019 | Mar 11, 2019 | Mar 12, 2019 | Apr 08, 2019 |
| $0.2132 S | Regular | Sep 07, 2018 | Oct 03, 2018 | Oct 04, 2018 | Oct 29, 2018 |
| $0.1762 A | Regular | Feb 20, 2018 | Mar 12, 2018 | Mar 13, 2018 | Apr 09, 2018 |
| $0.2347 S | Regular | Sep 08, 2017 | Oct 04, 2017 | Oct 05, 2017 | Oct 30, 2017 |
| $0.1525 S | Regular | Feb 17, 2017 | Mar 09, 2017 | Mar 13, 2017 | Apr 07, 2017 |
| $0.0915 S | Regular | Sep 06, 2016 | Oct 04, 2016 | Oct 06, 2016 | Oct 31, 2016 |
| $0.0767 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 08, 2016 | Mar 10, 2016 | Apr 11, 2016 |
| $0.0938 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 02, 2015 | Oct 06, 2015 | Nov 02, 2015 |
| $0.1241 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 10, 2015 | Mar 12, 2015 | Apr 06, 2015 |
| $0.0877 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 02, 2014 | Oct 06, 2014 | Oct 31, 2014 |
| $0.1032 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 02, 2012 | Oct 04, 2012 | Oct 29, 2012 |
| $0.1024 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 19, 2012 | Mar 21, 2012 | Apr 20, 2012 |
| $0.3596 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 04, 2011 | Oct 06, 2011 | Oct 31, 2011 |
| $0.1262 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 15, 2011 | Mar 17, 2011 | Apr 18, 2011 |
| $0.2247 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 05, 2010 | Oct 07, 2010 | Nov 01, 2010 |
| $0.0927 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 16, 2010 | Mar 18, 2010 | Apr 19, 2010 |
| $0.0915 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 06, 2009 | Oct 08, 2009 | Nov 05, 2009 |
| $0.1993 S | Special | N/A | Mar 17, 2009 | Mar 19, 2009 | Apr 20, 2009 |
| $0.4517 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 07, 2008 | Oct 09, 2008 | Nov 06, 2008 |
| $0.5137 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 17, 2008 | Mar 19, 2008 | Apr 24, 2008 |
| $2.1084 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 02, 2007 | Oct 04, 2007 | Oct 29, 2007 |
| $1.9968 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 22, 2007 | Mar 26, 2007 | Apr 23, 2007 |
| $1.8173 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 03, 2006 | Oct 05, 2006 | Oct 30, 2006 |
| $1.3039 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 28, 2006 | Mar 30, 2006 | Apr 24, 2006 |
| $2.7180 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 07, 2005 | Sep 09, 2005 | Oct 03, 2005 |
| $2.1476 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 21, 2005 | Mar 23, 2005 | Apr 18, 2005 |
| $1.7344 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 21, 2004 | Sep 23, 2004 | Oct 18, 2004 |
| $0.7840 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 23, 2004 | Mar 25, 2004 | Apr 19, 2004 |
| $0.8531 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 23, 2003 | Sep 25, 2003 | Oct 20, 2003 |
| $0.5538 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 25, 2003 | Mar 27, 2003 | Apr 21, 2003 |
| $0.4153 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 24, 2002 | Sep 26, 2002 | Oct 21, 2002 |
| $0.3635 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 25, 2002 | Mar 27, 2002 | Apr 22, 2002 |
| $0.3483 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 2001 | Sep 27, 2001 | Oct 22, 2001 |
| $0.3024 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 27, 2001 | Mar 29, 2001 | Apr 23, 2001 |
| $0.3162 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 26, 2000 | Sep 28, 2000 | Oct 23, 2000 |
| $0.2382 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 28, 2000 | Mar 30, 2000 | Apr 24, 2000 |
| $0.2584 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 27, 1999 | Sep 29, 1999 | Oct 25, 1999 |
| $0.2535 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 29, 1999 | Mar 31, 1999 | Apr 23, 1999 |
| $0.4287 S | Regular | N/A | Sep 25, 1998 | Sep 29, 1998 | Oct 26, 1998 |
| $0.4713 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 31, 1998 | Apr 02, 1998 | Apr 24, 1998 |
| $0.4508 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 04, 1997 | Nov 06, 1997 | Nov 28, 1997 |
| $0.4400 S | Regular | N/A | Apr 01, 1997 | Apr 03, 1997 | Apr 25, 1997 |
| $0.6607 S | Regular | N/A | Nov 06, 1996 | Nov 08, 1996 | Dec 02, 1996 |
| $0.6514 S | Regular | N/A | Mar 19, 1996 | Mar 21, 1996 | Apr 11, 1996 |
| $0.1824 S | Regular | N/A | Oct 31, 1995 | Nov 02, 1995 | Nov 24, 1995 |
| $0.7114 S | Regular | N/A | Apr 13, 1995 | Apr 20, 1995 | May 11, 1995 |
Peer Comparison
Selected Steel dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMC | Commercial Metals Company | 1.22% | 8.4% | 5 yrs | 75 |
| YDWAF | Yodoko Ltd. | 8.74% | 27.5% | 4 yrs | 71 |
| VLPNY | Voestalpine AG | 1.86% | 25.2% | 0 yrs | 68 |
| YMTKF | Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd. | 5.02% | 26.1% | 0 yrs | 68 |
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SMSMY dividend — frequently asked questions
Does Sims Limited pay a dividend?
Yes. Sims Limited (SMSMY) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $0.24 per share, a yield of approximately 1.63%.
What is Sims Limited's dividend yield?
Sims Limited's dividend yield is approximately 1.63%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does Sims Limited pay dividends?
Sims Limited pays dividends semi-annually — 2 times per year.
How long has Sims Limited paid dividends?
Sims Limited has 31 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.