The four most popular ratios are the dividend payout ratio; dividend coverage ratio; free cash flow to equity (FCFE) ratio; and net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation ...

Kiplinger recommends checking dividend sustainability by looking at either dividend cover or payout ratios. Dividend cover "measures the number of times greater the net profits available for ...

At that time, legislators said the dividend formula would be addressed at a later ... rewrite of the state’s corporate income ...