Sentences with phrase «dividends out of the profits»

These companies pay dividends out of their profits quarterly, which acts to reduce their average surpluses as a percentage of their total assets and liabilities.

Not exact matches

This means that a Canadian company with a subsidiary in Bermuda, for example, can bring back foreign profit tax - free in the form of a dividend — provided the subsidiary is carrying out active business, such as sales or manufacturing, and is not merely a P.O. box.

Some companies pay out a dividend, or a portion of their profits, to stockholders.

UC Berkeley's Danny Yagan found that the 2003 Bush cut to taxes on dividends (money coming from corporations and sent to investors) didn't spur investment at all; it just encouraged companies to pay out more of their profits to investors.

The way it works is that, each year, the insurer deduct all expenses, such as death benefits paid and the costs of running the business, from the money they've made (premiums collected, investments, and any other sources of income) and pays out any net profit as a dividend.

The bank declared an interim dividend of 80 cents per share, which was flat, and reflected a pay - out ratio of 66 per cent of its cash profit, slightly above its stated 60 per cent to 65 per cent target.

Yale University Professor Robert Shiller studied a diverse group of U.S. companies and found that from 1900 to 1980, they paid out an average of 61 percent of profits in dividends — that figure dwarfs combined dividends paid and share buybacks combined today by any measure.

By reinvesting the dividends, or capital gains, you can purchase more shares of the business without paying any fees or commissions to brokers... The first share has to be purchased through a broker, but with a DRIP (dividend) reinvestment plan) all future profits may be reinvested automatically with out paying broker fees to purchase shares on your behalf.

Such critics point out that there's a sense in which the money that flows through corporations is taxed twice: corporate profits are taxed, and then any dividend (i.e., a portion of after - tax profit) that is payed out to shareholders is taxed, too.

They can even pay out a dividend if they haven't done a profit by paying out some money out of their reserves but this will hurt the company hard and it can't be done over a long time - period.

Plus paying up to 4 types of taxes on dividends and sales (IF you get a profit) wipes out most of the «gains.»

And these businesses pay dividends to shareholders out of their profits.

Companies also are expected to pay out about 33 % of profit in the fourth quarter, Mr. Silverblatt says, as profit growth outpaces dividend increases.

Keep in mind that a dividend payment is not mandatory; the a business decision by the company to pay out a portion of it's profits to shareholders.

The company is paying out a third of its profit to shareholders as dividends, and keeping the other two - thirds of its profit for other purposes such as growing the business, making acquisitions, reducing debt levels, or repurchasing shares.

Should the government leave the profits and rental revenue from its oil and gas, nickel and other minerals in the hands of privatized firms, to be turned into interest and dividend payments and taken out of Russia?

The dividend is the money a company pays every shareholder out of its retained profits, as a reward for holding its shares.

When a company generates a profit, management has one of two choices: 1) They can either pay it out to shareholders as a cash dividend or 2) retain the earnings and reinvest them in the business.

These are bountiful times for Corporate America, but when it comes to dividend income, shareholders may feel left out of the profit party.

Recall that a common stock is a claim on the excess profits of a corporation, which are ultimately paid out as dividends over time.

Shell Oil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas prices).

Preferred dividends are paid out of corporate profits that have already been taxed by the federal government at the corporate level.

In the last 12 months Sun Hydraulics has paid out just over 41 % of its EPS in dividends, including the annual profit sharing payout.

It had previously flagged paying out 50 - 80 per cent of net profits in dividends.

Yes, TWE's dividend aims to pay out between 55 — 70 % of normalised net profit after tax each year.

a) the value of any goods or services exported out of Zambia; b) profits or dividends received in respect of investments abroad; c) borrowings from non-residents; d) trade credits to non-residents; e) investments in the form of equity from abroad; f) investments in the form of debt securities from abroad; and g) receipts of both principal and interest on loans to non-residents.

Shareholders could simply take out loans to access the value of their shares and dividends would never be paid and the profits would never be taxed.

The firm also returned an # 18m dividend to its Dublin - based parent company, paid out of accumulated profits BBC News — Easons announces pre-tax losses of # 1.5 m.

The way it works is that, each year, the insurer deduct all expenses, such as death benefits paid and the costs of running the business, from the money they've made (premiums collected, investments, and any other sources of income) and pays out any net profit as a dividend.

For example, Realty Income's payout ratio using earnings as the divisor would indicate that it is paying out more than 200 % of its profits as dividends.

They can even pay out a dividend if they haven't done a profit by paying out some money out of their reserves but this will hurt the company hard and it can't be done over a long time - period.

New Zealand companies pay out more profits as dividends than many other countries in the world, with an aggregate distribution of 84 % of earnings in 2015, much higher than the 48 % in the U.S. and 54 % globally (see Exhibit 1).

Dividends are paid out of profits, so you paid 20 % corporation tax already.

The proportion of profits paid out in dividends should be reasonable.

Payout ratio is simply how much of a corporation's profits are paid out as dividends.

However, much of that growth was fueled by getting the dividend up to speed, as the company was going from no dividend to paying out a large chunk of its profit via that dividend.

Since a company is a profit - generating enterprise, paying out dividend is one way a company can share its profits with its shareholders, who are part owners of the company.

Participating policies essentially participate in the profit of the insurance company and pay out a dividend, which is added to the guaranteed cash value.

After two years of crisis, European stocks are cheaper than their American rivals, and they tend to pay out a higher percentage of their profits as dividends.

The company may choose to pay out dividends, to reinvest them in the company, or to combine both by distributing part of the profits to shareholders and reinvesting the balance in the company.

While businesses may need to reinvest a portion of these profits for future growth initiatives, the remaining profits are available to pay out to shareholders in the form of dividends.

The preferred dividend is paid out only after interest has been first paid to regular debt holders but before common equity holders can retain any of their profits.

In the Asset Location decision many choose to make capital gains and dividends the first income to get kicked out of the RRSP when contribution room is constrained, because they compare their taxation at preferential rates in a Taxed account, to an RRSP where those profits are taxed at full rates on withdrawal.

For each dollar of profits NOT paid out as dividends very little gets rerouted into the increased future dividend.

REIT's pay out 90 % of their profits to shareholders by mandate so dividend yields tend to be higher than peers.

A mutual life insurance company will offer annual dividends as a share of the company's net profit (after claims, expenses and investment gains are figured out).

That part of a company's profits remaining after all expenses and taxes have been paid and out of which dividends may be paid.

The dividends would be paid out of profits in excess of what is needed to maintain the bank's capital levels.

Shell Oil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas prices).

If 3M can even convert half its profits into FCF, investors can expect decent dividend growth, considering that 3M has paid out at least 40 % of FCF in dividends in the past five years.