Dividend 15 Split (TSE:DFN) Reaches New 52-Week High – Time to Buy?

Dividend 15 Split Corp. (TSE:DFN)’s stock price hit a new 52-week high during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as C$8.96 and last traded at C$8.93, with a volume of 607676 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$8.92.

Dividend 15 Split Stock Performance

The company has a market capitalization of C$1.33 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 4.71 and a beta of 0.50. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is C$8.17 and its 200 day moving average price is C$7.77. The company has a current ratio of 0.17, a quick ratio of 1.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 131.30.

Dividend 15 Split Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a monthly dividend, which was paid on Friday, May 8th. Investors of record on Friday, May 8th were issued a dividend of $0.10 per share. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 13.4%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 30th. Dividend 15 Split’s dividend payout ratio is presently 63.16%.

Dividend 15 Split Company Profile

The Companys investment objectives with respect to the Class A Shares are (a) to provide holders of Class A Shares with regular monthly cash dividends targeted to be $0.10 per Class A Share; and (b) on or about the Termination Date (as defined herein), to pay holders of Class A Shares $15.00 per Class A Share, which was the issue price thereof on the initial public offering of the Company, through the redemption of each Class A Share held on the Termination Date. The assets of the Company are invested in an actively managed portfolio of common shares (the Portfolio) which primarily includes securities of the following 15 publicly traded Canadian companies (the Portfolio Companies), each of whose securities will generally represent no less than 4% and no more than 8% of the Net Asset Value of the Company: Bank of Montreal The Bank of Nova Scotia BCE Inc Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CI Financial Corp.