Sentence examples for decent dividends from inspiring English sources

Shareholders have had decent dividends on the way, of course, but in share price terms, M&S is roughly where it started.

* BT: Ted Scott, the manager of Foreign & Colonial's UK Growth and Income Fund, says that with decent dividends, BT has merits as a defensive share, but he argues that the company's growth potential has been underestimated.

Meanwhile, on the bricks-and-mortar side, stocks have often been penalized for earning real money and paying decent dividends -- embarrassing proof, in the current climate, of a lack of corporate imagination.

On Friday's show, one of his featured stocks was Watsco, a heating and ventilation company that was paying out decent dividends as its stock sunk along with the rest of the market.

Some credit unions pay pretty decent dividends – for example, Glasgow Credit Union paid 3% for the year ending September 2011, which is a very good for instant access cash, while 6 Towns Credit Union, catering for those in the Sandwell area of the West Midlands, says that for the past three years, its dividend has been 3.29%.

Investors flocked to utilities in 2007, attracted to steady earnings, decent dividends and solid demand.

"The equity market isn't just promising decent dividend income, but also the ability to grow that income in the future," Mr. Freeman says.

It can afford a decent dividend, and this yield should put a floor under the share price as it rides out the budget downturn.

Bloomsbury will probably give out a decent dividend or buy a few good businesses - or else a buyer will come in.

But another group will take up the management board's offer and buy more shares at a cheap price - most in the expectation of further gains and decent dividend payments.

The thinking has been straightforward: you can't go far wrong with a decent dividend and exposure to emerging markets, source of more than half Unilever's sales these days.