Sentence examples for dividend rises from inspiring English sources

The one surprise is that management has chosen not to roll the buyback into 2013 – instead the dividend rises 20% to 36.5p.

While he didn't invent shareholder primacy, which emerged from seminal US academic work in the 1970s, GE under Welch became a past master at managing it, making a fetish of delivering quarterly earnings and dividend rises - using judicious disposals as necessary to make the numbers.

Earlier this week its finance director, Gregor Alexander, insisted the company would stick to above-inflation dividend rises, while in a question and answer section on its website SSE admits "in all likelihood and unfortunately" the latest tariff increases will result in more fuel poverty.

Water supplier Pennon jumped 47.5p to 894.5p after surprising shareholders with a 6.3 per cent dividend rise.

Pru's capital surplus has doubled to £3bn, allowing the dividend rise.

In return the government gets non-voting preference shares that pay a 5% dividend, rising to 9% after five years.

Land Securities was lifted 52p to £13.63 by a well received set of results and a 3.7% dividend rise, but Vodafone fell 7.5p to 226.6p on a cautious outlook.

To please investors, GSK announced a 6% dividend rise to 17p and the return of £2bn to 2.5bn to shareholders through share buybacks this year.

The firm proposed an 8% dividend rise.

Despite this, BAE announced a dividend rise of 7% and a share buy-back scheme.

It even offered investors a 750 million-pound ($1.4 billion) payback and a 40% dividend rise to keep them on side.