Should You Buy Booking Stock Before Its 25-1 Stock Split?

Booking has a market capitalization of roughly $128.8 billion and pays an annual dividend of $38.40 per share, which works out to a yield of about 0.94% at the current price. The company paid its most recent $9.60 quarterly dividend in December, has only one year of increases so far, and pays on a quarterly schedule, but it does so with a conservative forward payout ratio of around 16.7%. That leaves plenty of room for Booking to keep raising the dividend without holding back growth.Over the past 52 weeks, ...