Meralco (MER): Dividend Yield & Dividends Paid by the Stock

James Ryan Jonas

View below the Dividends Paid by the stock Manila Electric Company or MER in the last five years. You can also see in the following tables the annual Dividend Yield of the MER stock.

For the year 2017, the company paid total dividends amounting to PHP 18.23 per share. This corresponds to a Dividend Yield of 5.55%. This yield was a decline from a high dividend yield of 9.46% paid in 2016.

The dividends of PHP 18.23 per share paid in 2017 was also nominally lower from the PHP 25.08 dividend paid in 2016.

To view MER’s dividend yield and dividend payment trend, check out the tables below.

Manila Electric Company (MER)’s Dividend Yield

YearDividends per Share (in PHP)Dividend Yield (Year-end %)
201310.24.06%
201412.364.83%
201515.254.77%
201625.089.46%
201718.235.55%

Manila Electric Company (MER)‘s Dividend History

YearDividend TypeAmountEx-Dividend DateDeclaration DateRecord DatePayable Date
2018Special Cash DividendsPHP 3.5873/23/20182/26/20183/28/20184/25/2018
2017Cash DividendsPHP 4.4898/24/20178/3/20178/30/20179/22/2017
Cash DividendsPHP 4.083/22/20172/28/20173/27/20174/21/2017
Special Cash DividendsPHP 4.4368/24/20178/3/20178/30/20179/22/2017
Special Cash DividendsPHP 5.223/22/20172/28/20173/27/20174/21/2017
2016Cash DividendsPHP 4.6088/19/20167/25/20168/24/20169/19/2016
Cash DividendsPHP 3.223/18/20162/26/20163/23/20164/15/2016
Special Cash DividendsPHP 8.8728/19/20167/25/20168/24/20169/19/2016
Special Cash DividendsPHP 1.685/20/20164/25/20165/25/20166/17/2016
Special Cash DividendsPHP 6.703/18/20162/26/20163/23/20164/15/2016
2015Cash DividendsPHP 5.1648/20/20157/27/20158/26/20159/18/2015
Cash DividendsPHP 3.663/18/20152/23/20153/23/20154/15/2015
Special Cash DividendsPHP 1.5968/20/20157/27/20158/26/20159/18/2015
Special Cash DividendsPHP 4.833/18/20152/23/20153/23/20154/15/2015
2014Cash DividendsPHP 3.454/10/20143/17/20144/15/20145/8/2014
Special Cash DividendsPHP 5.918/19/20147/28/20148/25/20149/18/2014
Special Cash DividendsPHP 3.004/10/20143/17/20144/15/20145/8/2014
2013Cash DividendsPHP 4.108/16/20138/4/20138/27/20139/20/2013
Cash DividendsPHP 6.103/21/20132/25/20133/26/20134/24/2013

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James Ryan Jonas teaches business management, investments, and entrepreneurship at the University of the Philippines (UP). He is also the Executive Director of UP Provident Fund Inc., managing and investing P3.2 Billion ($56.4 Million) worth of retirement funds on behalf of thousands of UP employees.