Cousins Properties Incorporated: dividend
Price
$29.64
November 13, 2026Market cap $5.0B
What Ploutos Investor adds for Cousins Properties
Part of Ploutos Investor, €9.99 a month
- The full history: 17 fiscal years, from 2009
- The estimated fair value, with its range and its certainty
- The full analysis, 18 a month
- More questions to the chat on its filings
- Excel with every year
- An email when it reports, changes its dividend or an officer buys
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Yield
4.32%
$1.28 per share over the last 12 months, at a price of $29.64.
Forward yield4.32%($0.32 a quarter)
- FCF coverThe year's free cash flow covered 63% of the dividend. The rest came from borrowing or from reserves.
- 0.6x
- Payout (FFO)45% of FFO (earnings plus property depreciation) went to the dividend.
- 45%
- No cutWithout a cut since 2013, the first year of our figures: the run may be longer.
- 12+
- 5-year growthAverage yearly growth over the last five years.
- +1.3%
- Debt / EBITDAMoney that goes to interest does not go to the dividend.
- 3.2x
The dividend year by year
What it paid per share each fiscal year, how much that changed, and the yield it gave at the price at year end.
- 2025Dividend per share$1.28
- 2024Dividend per share$1.28
- 2023Dividend per share$1.28
| Year | Dividend per share | Change | Price | Yield then |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.28 | +0.0% | $25.78 | 4.97% |
| 2024 | $1.28 | +0.0% | $30.64 | 4.18% |
| 2023 | $1.28 | – | $24.35 | 5.26% |
Each fiscal year's dividend as the company states it in its filings, adjusted for stock splits. Special dividends count in the year they were paid.
The dividend year by year
CUZ's dividend per share each fiscal year, from 2009 to 2022, 14 more fiscal years
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Everything it returns to shareholders
The dividend is one way. The other is buybacks, which reduce the number of shares.
Dividend yield
4.32%
$43.20 a year per $1,000 of shares
Buybacks
–
The share count rose by 0.2% over the year, so more shares were issued than bought back.
Total returned
4.32%
$43.20 a year per $1,000 of shares
CUZ beside the other dividend payers
Where it stands among this week's 968 dividend payers, and in the Real estate sector. The dot is the company, the white line the median.
Above 87% of the payers · median 2.03%
In Real estate: above 47%, median 4.39%.
Among the lowest on the list · median 3.6x
In Real estate: above 8%, median 1.2x.
Above 16% of the payers · median +6.3%
In Real estate: above 29%, median +4.4%.
Above 63% of the payers · median 35%
In Real estate: above 14%, median 63%.
The full analysis
What do Cousins Properties's filings show?
The dividend is one part of Cousins Properties's picture. The full Ploutos AI analysis reads everything the company has filed and shows what stands behind it, with a source for every figure.
- A fair value range built from the filings
- Earnings quality, debt and red flags
- Insider and institutional moves
- The case for and the case against
What is CUZ's dividend yield?
Cousins Properties paid $1.28 per share over the last 12 months. At a price of $29.64, that is a yield of 4.32%.
Does CUZ cover its dividend with the cash it makes?
No, over the last year. Cousins Properties's free cash flow covered 63% of the dividend, and the rest came from borrowing or reserves.
Has CUZ ever cut its dividend?
Cousins Properties has not cut its dividend for 12+ years, in the 17 years of figures we hold.
How much has CUZ's dividend grown?
Cousins Properties's dividend per share changed by +1.3% a year on average over the last five years.
Related pages
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The figures come from the company's SEC filings and the share price, and describe what it has reported. They are not a score or a fair value.