Sentence examples for levels of dividend from inspiring English sources

GenAmerica, which cut its dividend rate in the period as interest rates fell, said levels of dividend payouts were never guaranteed.

A 2013 report by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester found that the Wales and Northern franchises had paid out similar levels of dividend, £176m, between 2007 and 2011, accounting for all of their profits – profits that wouldn't exist without £2.5bn in government subsidies.

Xiang Junbo, the chairman of the Agricultural Bank of China, was quoted in July by The Study Times, a weekly publication controlled by the Communist Party School, as saying that the country's big banks "should avoid high levels of dividend payments while we are frequently going to the market for fund-raising exercises".

Buffett reportedly doesn't like dividends for two reasons: they are taxed as income, and different investors expect varying levels of dividend payouts.

The Soviets were quick to point out, quite correctly, that they would thus create two levels of dividends and two levels of taxation.

The past decade's huge increase in repurchases, in addition to high levels of dividends, have come at a time when U.S. industrial companies face new competitive challenges.

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.

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.

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).

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.