Sentence examples for announced dividends from inspiring English sources
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The £15m that Manchester United are to pay the six Glazer siblings every year in solemnly announced dividends marks the beginning of the maxing-out end that the family have planned ever since they bought the great football club with all their borrowed money 10 years ago.
Capital One Financial, MetLife and Morgan Stanley, along with Bank of America, have been notably absent from the list of peers that have announced dividend increases or share repurchases since last Friday, when the Fed informed the country's 19 largest banks of the results of a second round of stress tests they underwent earlier this year.
Its recently announced dividend leaves it with a 12% yield.
So far this year 243 companies in the S&P500 have announced dividend increases.
To date in 2004, a robust 226 companies in the S&P 500 have announced dividend increases, compared with just 4 that have cut or suspended payments.
The previously announced dividend, payable April 6 to shareholders of record as of March 16, will remain the same at $0.08 per share.
And in the first eight months of 2005, 217 of the 500 announced dividend hikes, compared with 185 through the same period last year, according to S&P equity analyst Howard Silverblatt.
British banks Barclays and Lloyds TSB were reportedly set to announce dividends that were 5% than last year's, when they announced their annual results this week.
[C2.] Dividend Payments Rose in 2002 The number of American companies announcing dividend increases rose 7.5percentt in 2002, Standard & Poor's said, the first annual increase since 1996.
Despite cloudy profit pictures in many industries, the number of companies announcing dividend increases this summer was significantly higher than it was a year ago.
