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Interested In Xinyuan Real Estate Co Ltd (NYSE:XIN)’s Upcoming US$0.10 Dividend? You Have 2 Days Left

If you are interested in cashing in on Xinyuan Real Estate Co Ltd’s (NYSE:XIN) upcoming dividend of US$0.10 per share, you only have 2 days left to buy the shares before its ex-dividend date, 24 August 2018, in time for dividends payable on the 12 September 2018. Is this future income stream a compelling catalyst for dividend investors to think about the stock as an investment today? Let’s take a look at Xinyuan Real Estate’s most recent financial data to examine its dividend characteristics in more detail.

See our latest analysis for Xinyuan Real Estate

5 checks you should use to assess a dividend stock

Whenever I am looking at a potential dividend stock investment, I always check these five metrics:

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  • Does it pay an annual yield higher than 75% of dividend payers?

  • Has it paid dividend every year without dramatically reducing payout in the past?

  • Has dividend per share amount increased over the past?

  • Is its earnings sufficient to payout dividend at the current rate?

  • Will the company be able to keep paying dividend based on the future earnings growth?

NYSE:XIN Historical Dividend Yield August 21st 18
NYSE:XIN Historical Dividend Yield August 21st 18

How does Xinyuan Real Estate fare?

The current trailing twelve-month payout ratio for the stock is 87.05%, which means that the dividend is covered by earnings. Furthermore, analysts have not forecasted a dividends per share for the future, which makes it hard to determine the yield shareholders should expect, and whether the current payout is sustainable, moving forward.

If there’s one type of stock you want to be reliable, it’s dividend stocks and their stable income-generating ability. Unfortunately, it is really too early to view Xinyuan Real Estate as a dividend investment. It has only been consistently paying dividends for 7 years, however, standard practice for reliable payers is to look for a 10-year minimum track record.

In terms of its peers, Xinyuan Real Estate generates a yield of 9.11%, which is high for Real Estate stocks.

Next Steps:

Taking all the above into account, Xinyuan Real Estate is a complicated pick for dividend investors given that there are a couple of positive things about it as well as negative. However, if you are not strictly just a dividend investor, the stock could still offer some interesting investment opportunities. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, I recommend taking sufficient time to understand its core business and determine whether the company and its investment properties suit your overall goals. There are three fundamental factors you should look at:

  1. Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for XIN’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for XIN’s outlook.

  2. Historical Performance: What has XIN’s returns been like over the past? Go into more detail in the past track record analysis and take a look at the free visual representations of our analysis for more clarity.

  3. Dividend Rockstars: Are there better dividend payers with stronger fundamentals out there? Check out our free list of these great stocks here.

To help readers see past the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements.

The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned. For errors that warrant correction please contact the editor at editorial-team@simplywallst.com.