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Although the bank has just cut its dividend it still views its balance sheet as a "fortress", and the safest European banks have similar ratios.
David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights, reckons that without cutting its dividend, it would take Citi at least five years to return to its pre-subprime meltdown profitability.
To help to meet it, the company is cutting its dividend ("It makes no sense to say, we need £5.9 billion, and here's £1.4 billion back").
When Ford recently slashed its dividend, it was cut from some WisdomTree ETFs.
What is ironic is that if a company were to totally eliminate its dividend, it would be less costly to holders than the net-of-tax effect of a REIT's new-rule declaration.
As long as the firm made a decent profit every year and raised the dividend it paid its stockholders, this was considered good enough.
With its latest dividend, it will have repaid about $95bn.
St Modwen restored its final dividend – it will pay out 2p on 4 April – after posting a profit before tax of £37.5m for the 12 months to 30 November, compared with losses of £119.4m in 2009 and £73.1m in 2008.
While this stock is tied to natural gas prices, with its monthly dividend it yields 8% today and will benefit if energy prices stabilize or go higher.
In the hundreds of pages of documents published to give details of the £1.5bn rescue of the bank, which is being forced to give up its mutual ownership under pressure from two US hedge funds, the group outlined the importance of the dividend it pays out to its seven million members before Christmas on its supermarket operations.
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