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Global dividend payments rose 20% to US$1.9 trillion in the last year
Dividends paid by MSCI ACWI last 12 months (USD billions)
Past results are not a guarantee of future results.
Sources: Capital Group, MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream, Refinitiv Eikon, RIMES. Dividends paid represent total cash dividends in the trailing 12-months as at 31/5/2022. Dividend yield is for MSCI ACWI as at 31/3/2022. MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) is a free float-adjusted market capitalisation-weighted index designed to measure equity market results in the global developed and emerging markets, consisting of more than 40 developed and emerging market country indexes.
Health care companies are undervalued relative to the broader market
Sources: MSCI, Refinitiv Datastream. Relative valuation is the ratio between the forward 12-month price-to-earnings ratio of the health care sector of the MSCI USA Index to the overall MSCI USA Index. As of 5/31/22.
Sources: Capital Group, company filings, Refinitiv Eikon. Years above refer to calendar years. Cloud revenue is represented by segment revenue for Intelligent Cloud Services (Microsoft), Amazon Web Services (Amazon) and Google Cloud (Alphabet). Data as of 12/31/21.
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