Extreme dividend yield Gilead Sciences

Huge dividend Gilead Sciences

Investors in Gilead Sciences can expect a huge dividend payment. Based on the recent analysts' consensus the stock now has one of the highest dividend returns of the American market. Analysts expect a dividend of 2,29 USD per share. Gilead Sciences's dividend yield thus equals 3,27 percent. The average dividend yield of the biotech companies is a limited 0,5 percent.

Dividend returns Gilead Sciences

Next Monday Gilead Sciences will publish its past quarters results. For this year Gilead Sciences's revenue will be around 21,82 billion USD. This is according to the average of the analysts' estimates. This is hugely lower than 2017's revenue of 26,11 billion USD.

Historical revenues and results Gilead Sciences plus estimates 2018

The analysts expect for 2018 a net profit of 9,08 billion USD. For this year the majority of the analysts, consulted by press agency Thomson Reuters, expects a profit per share of 6,92 USD. The price-earnings-ratio equals 10,12.

Newest target prices around 86 USD

The most recent recommendations for the biotech company are from Morgan Stanley, Leerink Swann & Company and Berenberg.

Gilead Sciences's market capitalization is based on the number of outstanding shares around 91,5 billion USD. The Gilead Sciences stock was the past 12 months quite volatile. Since last February the stock is 13 percent lower. This year the stock price moved between 60 and 85 dollar. Since 2008 the stock price is almost 176 percent higher.

On Thursday the stock closed at 70,01 USD.

Historical stock prices Gilead Sciences Sciences2007-2018

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