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DS Smith PLC
LSE:SMDS

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Price: 582.5 GBX
Market Cap: £8.1B

Dividends

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Mar 10, 2026
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Dividend Yield
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Dividend Per Share
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Over the past 5 years, dividends per share for SMDS have increased by 49%.
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Payout Ratio
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Shareholder Yield

Current shareholder yield for SMDS is .

Shareholder yield represents the total return a company provides to its shareholders, calculated as the sum of dividend yield, buyback yield, and debt paydown yield. What is shareholder yield?

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Buybacks

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Buybacks

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Debt Paydown

Debt Paydown Yield
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Price Appreciation

SMDS Price
DS Smith PLC

Annual Price Range
582.5
52w Low
N/A
52w High
N/A
Price Metrics
Average Annual Return -2.65%
Standard Deviation of Annual Returns 6.92%
Max Drawdown -44%
Shares Statistics
Market Capitalization 8B GBX
Shares Outstanding 1 386 210 000
Percentage of Shares Shorted 60%

SMDS Return Decomposition
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Stock Splits

SMDS's latest stock split occurred on Jul 10, 2018

The company executed a 762-for-709 stock split, meaning that for every 709 shares held, investors received 762 new shares.

Before the split, SMDS traded at 482.1571 per share. Afterward, the share price was about 378.2493.

The adjusted shares began trading on Jul 10, 2018. This was SMDS's 4th stock split, following the previous one in Feb 6, 2012.

Pre-Split Price
367.7668 482.1571
Post-Split Price
378.2493
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