Sentence examples for unchanged dividend from inspiring English sources

Laith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "HSBC declared an unchanged dividend of 10¢, which was twice covered by earnings over the quarter.

The company said it would pay an unchanged dividend of 30 cents for every common share and 32 cents for preferred shares.

Prudential continues to maintain that GM's annual dividend of $2.00 per share will not be cut in the short to medium term, "which should provide support for the shares at their current level (6.3% yield), particularly since the company declared an unchanged dividend for the second quarter of 2005 on May 9".

BP left its first-quarter dividend unchanged at 10 cents per share.

But the company also disappointed some investors by leaving its dividend unchanged at 0.72 euros per share.

BT said it would hold the dividend unchanged for last year and the next two years, given the outlook for earnings and cashflow, but added that it remained committed to a long-term policy of growing the dividend.

Despite Spain's economic and property crash, Santander was one of the few major banks to keep its dividend unchanged with the financial crisis.

Oil company BP rose 5.3% to $33.49 after BP posted a larger-than-expected profit and it left its dividend unchanged even though oil prices and energy income have plunged.

Unlike many other banks, it kept dividends unchanged after the 2008 crisis, but now intends to cut its 2015 payout to 20 cents a share, from 60 cents.

Santander, one of the few major banks to keep dividends unchanged after the 2008 global financial crisis, said on Thursday it would cut its payout from 2015 earnings to 20 cents per share against 60 cents previously.

According to a study by Mr. Michaely and two other academics, Shlomo Benartzi of the University of California at Los Angeles and Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, companies that cut their dividends tend to report bigger increases in earnings in the first and second year after the change than do companies with unchanged or growing dividends.