METHODOLOGY

A score is only useful
when its reasoning survives inspection.

Individends evaluates the dividend as a living system. Every conclusion has a measurement date, a confidence level and an evidence trail.

01

Reliability

We begin with the payment record, payout behavior, cash coverage and the consistency of the operating engine. A long streak helps, but history never receives a veto over present evidence.

  • Dividend continuity and policy behavior
  • Earnings and free-cash-flow payout ranges
  • Cash conversion through complete cycles
02

Resilience

We ask what happens when conditions are less friendly. Debt maturity, interest coverage, cyclicality, currency exposure and prior stress periods reveal how much room management really has.

  • Balance-sheet pressure and refinancing windows
  • Revenue and margin sensitivity
  • Down-cycle dividend behavior
03

Growth

Growth is judged by its source and durability, not only its rate. We separate operational growth from expanding payout ratios, buyback effects and currency translation.

04

Valuation

Yield is interpreted relative to the company’s own history, business quality, rates and the market’s implied risk—not as a leaderboard where the largest number wins.

05

Data confidence

Freshness, source agreement, missing observations and corporate-action ambiguity are visible. Low-confidence inputs reduce the strength of the conclusion instead of disappearing behind it.

Important

Individends provides research and decision support, not personalized investment advice. Scores describe evidence under a published method; they do not promise future returns or payments.