Sentence examples for increase the payout from inspiring English sources

"We saved the nest eggs for the rainy days, and now it's raining," said Morton Schapiro, the president of Williams College, who has persuaded his board to increase the payout rate of the college's $1.3 billion endowment.

The dividend was held at 10¢ a share and the bank tried to quash concerns that management's plans to increase the payout each year would be difficult to achieve, by pointing out that earnings for the quarter easily covered the $2.1bn cost of the dividend for those three months.

According to their research, it matters only that the stock pays a dividend and that the board of directors is willing to increase the payout.

Although the company said the reduction would save $725 million per year, King called it "the worst day in my 37-year career," saying that he would increase the payout again as soon as possible.

Such a plan would in effect increase the payout to shareholders – but it would probably be in breach of UK takeover rules.

Larger jackpots increase the payouts and therefore the value of a ticket.

The Massachusetts lottery imposed purchase limits after it was discovered that their Cash Win-fail game had a positive expected value after a jackpot was rolled down to increase the payouts for lower level prizes.[5].

Instead, the lawyer, Kevin Glasheen, lobbied the Legislature to pass a bill that in 2009 increased the payout to exonerated prisoners.

With AT&T, Leap pushed for contingent value rights, potentially increasing the payout to the smaller service provider's investors.

The company has increased the payout in almost every year since World War II.

Sigma-Aldrich began paying a quarterly dividend in 1994, and the life-science chemical maker has increased the payout every year.