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Amgen said it plans to increase its shareholder dividend 30% in the first quarter of 2015.
The Gtech Holdings Corporation, a supplier of lottery products, said yesterday that it might go private, through a leveraged buyout, in an effort to increase its shareholder value.
It's likely that Apple will use the funds primarily to increase its shareholder returns, improving dividends and share repurchases.
Still, if it passed, pressure would be strong on Apple's leaders to increase its shareholder reward programs.
They don't make sense as a long-term strategy for a company like De Beers, which is looking to increase its shareholder value," says James Allan of South African brokerage Barnard Jacobs Mellet, the top-ranking diamond analyst in South Africa.
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It increased its shareholder pay-out with a pledge of another hike next year – despite bill rises being kept at or below inflation.
Standard Chartered added that it was increasing its shareholder dividend by 11 percent, to 84 cents.
For example, Jane Street, which is privately held, has increased its shareholder's equity, or net worth, to more than $1 billion today from $228 million in 2007.
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Antony P. Jenkins, the chief executive of Barclays, said the increase in capital would help stabilize the bank and allow it to increase its dividend to shareholders next year.
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