It paid a fully -
franked dividend of 31 cents per share at a 95 % payout ratio.
Not exact matches
However there is an interesting specialty with regard to
dividends in Australia: They want to avoid double taxation
of corporate profits and therefore every Australian holder
of Australian stocks receives so called «
Franking credits» when an Australian company pays
dividends.
Putting aside his mistaken belief that his voters are «Aussie Battlers» - when in fact they are hard - working small business owners and contractors, many
of whom receive
franked dividends from their business endeavors — it's worth looking at what all the fuss is about... Continue...
Tatts said it would pay shareholders a fully
franked special
dividend of 12 cents per share immediately prior to the implementation
of the scheme.
Murray Goulburn complained to the Panel that Saputo's revised bid, which saw WCB take an offer
of two fully -
franked special
dividends off the table, implied a reduction in the value
of the offer and contravened the truth in takeovers provision.
The claim centres around the withdrawal
of two full -
franked dividend payments to shareholders from WCB in Saputo's latest bid.
The panel said shareholders had been confused about the value
of Saputo's offer by two
franked dividends WCB had planned to pay shareholders — but which were subsequently withdrawn — under a previous Saputo offer.
Saputo, which owns 16.9 per cent
of WCB, was compelled to change its offer this week after the Takeovers Panel ruled it had misled shareholders in relation to the
franking value
of two WCB
dividends under a previous offer.
The 20 cents sweetener replaces a confusing offer
of two
franked special
dividends worth a combined $ 1.31 WCB proposed to pay shareholders under the previous $ 9 a share offer agreed with Saputo.
In the Saputo - WCB matter, the withdrawal
of two very complex fully
franked special
dividends WCB planned to pay under its agreed bid with the Canadian company caused rival bidders Murray Goulburn and Bega Cheese to appeal to the Panel.
In Warrnambool, the issue was that a
dividend proposal that endeavoured to give the value
of franking credits to target shareholders was conditional, complex and essentially unworkable,» the panel said.
Murray Goulburn said it still wished to «explore the potential»
of WCB paying special
dividends under its revised offer in order to deliver
franking credit benefits to some shareholders.
If the Scheme is approved by Coal & Allied shareholders, and subject to Coal & Allied obtaining a ruling from the Australian Taxation Office, Coal & Allied will announce a fully
franked special
dividend of A$ 8 per share.
I'd estimate the current portfolio
dividend yield at about 2 % fully
franked, so you might get 50bps to 1 %
of franking credits a year on the current holdings.
Organisations receiving a
dividend from a New Zealand (NZ) company with Australian
franking credits attached to it will be able to obtain a refund
of those Australian
franking credits.
Cadence has a historical fully
franked dividend yield
of 6 - 8 % p.a..
The Australian Taxation Office has a lot
of information regarding
franking credits /
franked dividends: https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Imputation/Receiving-
dividends-and-other-distributions/
This is the
dividend in cents, excluding the value
of notional
franking credits, divided by the share price.
I'm a huge fan
of the
dividends too (especially the Fully -
Franked kind we get in Australia!)
A Fully -
Franked dividend yield
of 7.0 % is pretty sweet.
The introduction
of dividend imputation in 1987 removed the double taxation
of dividends, with tax - resident Australian companies receiving a «
franking credit» for tax paid at prevailing corporate tax rates.
In recent communications, we have described situations where an SMSF purchases the shares
of a private company for the purpose
of channelling
franked dividends to the SMSF instead
of the company's original shareholders.
But as a part owner
of Australian listed companies, receive it as fully
franked dividends and I will pay a flat 30 % tax.
However foreign companies can only use
franking credits to offset
dividend withholding tax so not sure
of the impact
of this for marginal investor.
Holders
of self - funding instalment warrants receive
dividends and
franking credits from the underlying shares.
If the income is from «
franked»
dividends - that is,
dividends paid by an Australian company out
of profits on which it has already paid tax - it will come with a credit for the tax already paid, called an «imputation credit».
It's a bit like a lay - by, except you get all the benefits
of owning the shares from day one, such as receiving
dividends and
franking credits.
See how the index series allows investors to more precisely measure the performance
of the Australian equity market by factoring in the impact
of franking credits attached to
dividends.
Telstra pays a large, fully
franked dividend but historically paid out almost 100 %
of its earnings — occasionally, it's payout ratio has exceeded 100 % — something I loath to see on a regular basis.
It paid 94 %
of earnings to shareholders as a fully
franked 28 cps
dividend.
These arrangements concern us because they are intended to shield
dividend income at a low or zero rate
of tax, rather than «top - up» tax being paid at the individual shareholder's marginal rate, and the fund being entitled to a refund
of franking credits.
The long - term equities core portion could be achieved using index funds (index mutual funds or index ETFs) and / or large - cap «blue chip» stocks that have a very low probability
of failing, emphasising the reinvestment
of dividends and
franking credits.
Say you wanted to end up with a 5 % position in the company, you would have to have enough cash to invest 55 %
of your portfolio in the stock today (the other 50 % will come straight back as
dividend and
franking credits).
«
Franked»
dividends are
dividends paid by an Australian company out
of profits it has already paid tax on.
A managed fund in which the investment manager invests in range
of shares to satisfy a specific investment goal, such as maximising capital growth,
dividend income or
franking credits.
Financial adviser Jamie Pomeroy
of Financial Gusto says this should all start with communication: «Sitting down with your child and having a clear and
frank conversation about who's paying for what, can pay huge
dividends.»
Flight Centre declared a fully
franked interim
dividend of 26 cents per share, up from nine cents per share in the prior corresponding period.