Vail Resorts, Inc.: dividend
Price
$152.61
November 13, 2026Market cap $5.4B
What Ploutos Investor adds for Vail Resorts
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- The full history: 17 fiscal years, from FY2010
- 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
5.82%
$8.88 per share over the last 12 months, at a price of $152.61.
Forward yield5.82%($2.22 a quarter)
- FCF coverThe year's free cash flow covered 78% of the dividend. The rest came from borrowing or from reserves.
- 0.8x
- Payout216% of the last 12 months' earnings went to the dividend.
- 216%
- No cutYears in a row without a cut, in 15 years of figures.
- 4
- 5-year growthAverage yearly growth over the last five years.
- +12.3%
- Debt / EBITDAMoney that goes to interest does not go to the dividend.
- 4.0x
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.
- FY2026Dividend per share$8.88
- FY2025Dividend per share$8.88
- FY2024Dividend per share$8.56
| Year | Dividend per share | Change | Price | Yield then | As % of earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | $8.88 | +0.0% | $149.38 | 5.94% | 216% |
| FY2025 | $8.88 | +3.7% | $150.26 | 5.91% | 118% |
| FY2024 | $8.56 | – | $182.01 | 4.70% | 141% |
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
MTN's dividend per share each fiscal year, from FY2010 to FY2023, 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
5.82%
$58.20 a year per $1,000 of shares
Buybacks
0.83%
$8.30 a year per $1,000 of shares
The share count fell by 0.7% over the year.
Total returned
6.65%
$66.50 a year per $1,000 of shares
dividend 88%buybacks 12%
MTN beside the other dividend payers
Where it stands among this week's 968 dividend payers, and in the Consumer cyclical sector. The dot is the company, the white line the median.
Above 94% of the payers · median 2.03%
In Consumer cyclical: above 95%, median 1.72%.
Above 5% of the payers · median 3.6x
In Consumer cyclical: above 4%, median 3.4x.
Above 85% of the payers · median +6.3%
In Consumer cyclical: above 69%, median +10.1%.
Among the highest on the list · median 35%
In Consumer cyclical: above 96%, median 29%.
The full analysis
What do Vail Resorts's filings show?
The dividend is one part of Vail Resorts'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 MTN's dividend yield?
Vail Resorts paid $8.88 per share over the last 12 months. At a price of $152.61, that is a yield of 5.82%.
Does MTN cover its dividend with the cash it makes?
No, over the last year. Vail Resorts's free cash flow covered 78% of the dividend, and the rest came from borrowing or reserves.
Has MTN ever cut its dividend?
Vail Resorts has not cut its dividend for 4 years, in the 15 years of figures we hold.
How much has MTN's dividend grown?
Vail Resorts's dividend per share changed by +12.3% 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.