Sentence examples for level of dividend from inspiring English sources

The agreement also specified that Xata must maintain a certain level of dividend payouts and severely restricted executive compensation and capital expenditures.

Van Beurden has already promised to cut capital expenditure to $37bn this year while keeping the level of dividend spending up at $11bn.

Research from Link Asset Services, published today, showed that the headline level of dividend payouts grew by 10.5percentto to £94.4 billion last year.

But the level of dividend cover is respectable, more than two in Britain (in other words, there are enough earnings to pay dividends twice over).

At the time of the interim results, the payout was increased by 5% and the group re-iterated its commitment to a progressive dividend policy, with the level of dividend determined after taking into account the group's financial requirements, including opportunities to invest in areas of the business offering attractive returns (with the Asian assets of AIG a possibility).

Those returns have three components: the current level of dividend yield, real dividend growth and changes in valuation (moves in dividend-price ratios).Perhaps surprisingly, Messrs Dimson, Marsh and Staunton show that, equally weighted, the average equity market enjoyed no real dividend growth at all over the 1900-2005 period.

One indication of that power shift can be seen in the low level of dividends now paid to shareholders.

The level of dividends to be paid to members is something which legally the members themselves will vote on at the AGM early next year, but the prospects for an increase on last year's 1% dividend must be looking encouraging.

"The big assumption about the electricity business was the utilities were guaranteed to generate a certain level of dividends," said Takashi Aoki, a Tokyo-based fund manager at Mizuho Asset Management.

Instead, Mr Cook and the company's board will probably increase somewhat the level of dividends and buybacks it has already announced, while resisting calls to turn the company into one big iCash dispenser.

For instance, Deutsche Bank paid €183m for 10% of Cassa di Risparmio di Bolzano, when a stake of the same size sold for €79m just last year.And BPI has given only a one-year guarantee on the level of dividends that these unquoted banks will pay; this hardly enhances the attractiveness of these illiquid stakes.