Not exact matches
Per Figure 5, CLX has paid out
cumulative dividends of $ 1.9 billion compared to
cumulative cash flow of $ 3.3 billion
over the past five years.
Since 2007, SCS has generated a
cumulative $ 1.3 billion (81 % of market cap) in FCF and paid out
cumulative dividends of just
over $ 816 million.
Fortunately for investors, GM has generated a
cumulative $ 16 billion in free cash flow
over the past four years, more than enough to cover its 4 %
dividend yield, as shown in Figure 4.
Furthermore, it's also important to focus on the reason why better valuation produced more
cumulative dividend income
over the longer run.
If one looks back
over several years, most of the difference between the
cumulative gains in the price index and the total return index is the growth of reinvested
dividends.
Here is the resulting chart of the
cumulative RealAlpha ™ and related statistics for the Columbia
Dividend Income fund
over the past 10 years: