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This will have been partly offset by dividends.
In other words, on a 14-year view, all the work on shareholder returns has been done by dividends.
Income plunged 3.6 percent, though it followed a jump in December driven by dividends and bonuses that were paid early to avoid higher income taxes.
Those not won over by dividends can "take [their] profits and sell", Mr Murdoch announced defiantly on Twitter before the meeting.
That means that just over 40percentt of investment returns were accounted for by dividends, although they have now slipped into near oblivion.
Management should judge business strategies and investments by the economic returns they generate for shareholders, as measured by dividends plus the increase in the company's share price.
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Several stocks were affected by dividend developments.
If measured by dividend yield, the index would collapse to 445, a fall of 64percentt.
But utilities no longer play this role, as evinced not just by collapsing share prices but by dividend policies.
Brazil, Argentina, and France adopted provisions for the extinction of debts to the extent that they remain unsatisfied by dividend payments.
And after the price falls, some might be tempted by dividend yields well in excess of savings interest rates.
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