Dow declares quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share
Dow (NYSE: DOW) has announced a significant dividend adjustment, reducing its quarterly dividend by 50% to 35 cents per share.
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Dow (NYSE: DOW) has announced a significant dividend adjustment, reducing its quarterly dividend by 50% to 35 cents per share. The decision comes in response to a prolonged industry downturn and challenging macroeconomic conditions.
CEO Jim Fitterling emphasized that this adjustment aims to enhance financial flexibility while maintaining a competitive dividend policy. The company's capital allocation strategy remains focused on prioritizing high-return opportunities and delivering long-term shareholder value. The dividend will be paid on September 12, 2025, to shareholders of record as of August 29, 2025, marking the company's 456th consecutive dividend payment since 1912.
Positive
- Maintains 456-quarter consecutive dividend payment streak since 1912
- Enhanced financial flexibility for high-return opportunities
- Continued commitment to competitive dividend policy
- Strategic cost reduction initiatives in place
Negative
- 50% reduction in quarterly dividend payout
- Prolonged industry downturn affecting earnings
- Challenging macroeconomic environment impacting operations
- Lower-for-longer earnings environment expected
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- Adjusting dividend by
50% in response to prolonged industry downturn - Aligning payout size to ensure capital allocation flexibility and a balanced framework that enables higher returns for shareholders
- The Company continues to target a competitive dividend across the economic cycle
"Today's announcement aims to ensure we maximize long-term shareholder value as we navigate a prolonged industry downturn and the resulting lower-for-longer earnings environment. With this adjustment, we are aligning the payout size to provide additional financial flexibility. Doing so ensures Dow's ability to prioritize the highest return-generating opportunities, while maintaining a competitive dividend," said Jim Fitterling, Dow chair and CEO. "Our capital allocation approach remains unchanged, and we are committed to delivering leading shareholder returns over the cycle. As the industry recovers, Dow is positioned to deliver profitable growth by unlocking the full benefit of our growth investments, improving margins, implementing our cost reduction initiatives, and further strengthening our competitive advantages."
The dividend is payable on September 12, 2025, to shareholders of record on August 29, 2025. This marks the 456th consecutive dividend paid by the Company or its affiliates since 1912.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world's leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately
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Cautionary Statement about Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements often address expected future business and financial performance, financial condition, and other matters, and often contain words or phrases such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "opportunity," "outlook," "plan," "project," "seek," "should," "strategy," "target," "will," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," "would" and similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words or phrases.
Forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions and expectations of future events that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that are beyond Dow's control, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements and speak only as of the date the statements were made. These factors include, but are not limited to: sales of Dow's products; Dow's expenses, future revenues and profitability; any sanctions, export restrictions, supply chain disruptions or increased economic uncertainty related to the ongoing conflicts between
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