Sentences with phrase «increase dividend payments to shareholders»

The first - of - its - kind proposal asked Chevron to increase dividend payments to shareholders instead of spending so much on unconventional oil, tar sands and other projects that could be rendered unprofitable by future climate policies or a related drop in oil prices.

There's one thing Georgetti did get right: Canadian companies have, on average, increased their dividend payments to shareholders since the recession.

Indeed many (but not all), blue - chip companies (listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index) have had a long history of increasing their dividend payments to shareholders each year.

It thus follows that any business that's good enough to regularly and routinely grow profit enough to send out increasing dividend payments to shareholders for decades on end is a high - quality business.

Not exact matches

The iPhone maker is raising its quarterly dividend by 16 percent to 73 cents per share, matching the largest increase since Apple restored the payment under shareholder pressure six years ago.

As the economy grows over time, the stock - market, which reflects the value of companies as a whole, tends to rise and many companies are able to increase their payments, or dividends to shareholders.

Under this theory, firms can reduce agency conflicts between managers and shareholders by reducing excess cash on hand, and by obligating managers to make continuous payouts in the form of increased dividends and interest payments to creditors.

Each of the «boring» companies I mentioned above actually increased their respective dividend payments to shareholders right through the worst financial calamity my generation has ever witnessed.

If a company has too much spare cash, it may consider investing the surplus funds in new ventures and in case company is out of investment options it may be prudent to return the excess funds to shareholders in the form of increased dividend payments.

This dividend king has paid uninterrupted dividends on its common stock since 1893 and increased payments to common shareholders every for 51 consecutive years.

Mutual companies are actually owned by the policyholders who are considered shareholders and can receive dividend payment distributions and may not be penalized by an increase in premium due to losses.