Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL) Announces Interim Dividend of $0.44

by · The Cerbat Gem

Sonic Healthcare Limited (ASX:SHL – Get Free Report) announced a interim dividend on Friday, February 21st, MarketIndexAU Dividends reports. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 19th will be given a dividend of 0.44 per share by the health services provider on Wednesday, March 19th. This represents a yield of 1.61%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 4th. This is an increase from Sonic Healthcare’s previous interim dividend of $0.43.

Sonic Healthcare Stock Performance

The company has a market cap of $13.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 26.85, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -1.19 and a beta of 0.51. The company has a current ratio of 1.01, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 57.03.

Insider Transactions at Sonic Healthcare

In other Sonic Healthcare news, insider Mark Compton purchased 1,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 10th. The shares were bought at an average cost of A$28.46 ($18.24) per share, with a total value of A$28,460.00 ($18,243.59). Insiders own 5.37% of the company’s stock.

About Sonic Healthcare

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Sonic Healthcare Limited offers medical diagnostic services to medical practitioners, hospitals, community health services, and their collective patients. The company provides laboratory medicine/pathology testing services, such as biochemistry, cytopathology, genetics, haematology, histopathology, immunoserology, microbiology, molecular pathology, prenatal testing, toxicology, and ancillary functions; and radiology services, including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, X-ray, mammography, nuclear medicine, PET CT, interventional procedures, and bone mineral densitometry.

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