Royal Bank Of Canada (RY) Payout Ratio (2009 - 2025)
Royal Bank Of Canada's Payout Ratio was 0.44 in fiscal Q4 2022 (quarter ended Oct 31, 2022), up 10.1% from 0.40 a year earlier and up 3.8% from the prior quarter.
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Royal Bank Of Canada (RY) Payout Ratio (2009 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
From fiscal Q4 2018 onward, Royal Bank Of Canada has reported Payout Ratio for 17 quarters.
- In earlier fiscal years, Payout Ratio was 406818.33 in FY2021, 0.55 in FY2020 (+27.0%), 0.44 in FY2019 (-1.7%) and 0.44 in FY2018 (-100.0%).
- The fiscal Q4 2022 figure marks the highest quarterly Payout Ratio since fiscal Q2 2021.
- Compared with a year earlier, Payout Ratio was higher in three of the last eight quarters, with an average decline of 10.9%.
- The best year-over-year quarter for Payout Ratio over five years was fiscal Q3 2020 (growth of 38.0%); the worst was fiscal Q3 2021 (a decline of 28.5%).
- Per Business Quant data, RY's Payout Ratio in the three fiscal quarters before Q4 2022 was 0.42 (Q3 2022), 0.40 (Q2 2022) and 0.39 (Q1 2022).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2025 | 0.02 |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 0.22 |
| Oct 31, 2022 | 0.44 |
| Jul 31, 2022 | 0.42 |
| Apr 30, 2022 | 0.40 |
| Jan 31, 2022 | 0.39 |
| Oct 31, 2021 | 0.40 |
| Jul 31, 2021 | 0.42 |
| Apr 30, 2021 | 0.45 |
| Jan 31, 2021 | 0.54 |
| Oct 31, 2020 | 0.55 |
| Jul 31, 2020 | 0.55 |
| Apr 30, 2020 | 0.54 |
| Jan 31, 2020 | 0.46 |
| Oct 31, 2019 | 0.47 |
| Jul 31, 2019 | 0.46 |
| Apr 30, 2019 | 0.46 |
| Jan 31, 2019 | 0.46 |
| Oct 31, 2018 | 0.45 |
| Jul 31, 2018 | 0.34 |
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Royal Bank Of Canada Payout Ratio API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=payout-ratio&ticker=RY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "payout-ratio", "ticker": "RY", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=payout-ratio&ticker=RY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();