Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Plans Quarterly Dividend of $0.06 (NYSE:ARCO)

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (NYSE:ARCOGet Free Report) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 13th, Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 22nd will be given a dividend of 0.06 per share by the restaurant operator on Friday, December 26th. This represents a $0.24 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.02%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 22nd.

Arcos Dorados has a payout ratio of 29.6% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Equities analysts expect Arcos Dorados to earn $0.73 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $0.24 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 32.9%.

Arcos Dorados Price Performance

ARCO opened at $7.95 on Friday. The business’s 50-day moving average is $7.79 and its two-hundred day moving average is $8.28. Arcos Dorados has a 1 year low of $7.02 and a 1 year high of $11.88. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.40, a current ratio of 0.63 and a quick ratio of 0.57. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.67 billion, a PE ratio of 11.35 and a beta of 1.09.

Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCOGet Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, March 12th. The restaurant operator reported $0.28 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.06. Arcos Dorados had a return on equity of 29.74% and a net margin of 3.25%. The company had revenue of $1.14 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. Research analysts anticipate that Arcos Dorados will post 0.63 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Arcos Dorados Company Profile

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Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc operates as a franchisee of McDonald’s restaurants. It has the exclusive right to own, operate, and grant franchises of McDonald’s restaurants in 20 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Argentina, Aruba, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, the U.S.

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