Toast is a US-based restaurant technology company that provides point-of-sale, payment processing, and various software services to 134,000 restaurant locations across the United States as of December 2024. The firm generates sales from software subscription fees, as a percentage take rate from each financial transaction it processes, from loan origination and servicing fees from its Toast Capital arm, and from hardware installation and professional services. Unlike competitors, Toast intermediates every payment transaction on its platform; it processed some $159 billion in gross platform volume in 2024. The firm's product offerings span point-of-sale systems, inventory and payroll management, delivery integration, e-commerce ordering, reservation management, and loyalty programs.
The sum of declared dividends issued by a company for every ordinary share outstanding.
Dividend Yield is a financial ratio that shows how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price in the last twelve months. In the absence of any capital gains, the dividend yield is the return on investment for a stock.
It is another way that companies have to remunerate their shareholders, being an alternative to dividends. Shows the % of repurchases per share made in the last 12 months in relation to the share price.
The average of the dividend yield over the last 60 months.
The dividend payout ratio is the ratio of the total amount of dividends paid out to shareholders relative to the net income of the company. It is the percentage of earnings paid to shareholders via dividends.
Retained earnings (RE) are the amount of net income left over for the business after it has paid out dividends to its shareholders and are an important variable for assessing a company's financial health because it shows the net income that a company has saved over time, and therefore has the ability to reinvest in the business or distribute to shareholders.
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