a high [low] dividend
It cut its dividend earlier this year.
The agriculture accounts can enjoy dividend policy.
So what do current dividend levels tell us?
But this "demographic dividend" will peak in 2010.
Last month NAB cut its dividend by 25.0%, the first time the bank cut its dividend since 1991.
If Africa wins a demographic dividend it will only be because it stops growing so fast.
A lower corporate rate would offset the harm of higher capital gains and dividend taxes.
For many firms dividend cuts are an unpleasant task that should not be shirked.
Since 2006, China Mobile's dividend payout ratio has risen by just one percentage point, to 43% of earnings.
The result is a "demographic dividend", which can be cashed in to produce a virtuous cycle of growth.
The modern fashion for creating derivatives means that it is possible to gauge investors’ expectations about future dividend growth.
High dividend payments have been a ray of light for shareholders: On average, the big Banks pay out almost a third of their earnings, for an average dividend yield of about 4.7%.
There's no price per share that you can observe and the Banks can't do anything except passively receive the dividend.
Although the rules expressly prohibited using the funds for dividend payments or stock buybacks, subsequent analysis has shown participants sent most of it to shareholders anyway.
Refinancings, repricings and dividend recaps - features of the frothy first quarter, but stalled during the geopolitical turmoil - are resuming with some pretty hefty candidates.
To do this, you identify the 10 stocks that sport the highest yield (annual dividend divided by share price). You then invest the same amount of money in all 10 of these stocks.
When the cost method is used, cash dividends declared on capital stock held as an investment may be recorded as a debit to Dividends Receivable and a credit to Dividend Revenue.
We're going to send a letter to all our shareholders and say, we have decided to pay a $5 dividend and so you're about to approve this at the meeting.
These figures are based on the number of shares the executives own and estimates from the Banks about the percentage of earnings they plan to earmark for dividend payments.
The 9 per cent interest rate, which is line with that paid by UBS in its recent issue, represents a 5 percentage point after tax premium to its dividend.
