Sentences with phrase «paying dividends to its shareholders for»

Many of these firms have paid dividends to shareholders for over a century.

Even better, it announced a 15 % dividend boost in December and Enbridge has been paying dividends to its shareholders for over 50 years.

Not exact matches

Dividends, the share of their revenues that companies pay to their shareholders, are a big deal: Over the past century, they've accounted for roughly half of total returns earned by stock investors.

Buying back stock is, for example, Warren Buffett's preferred way of returning cash to shareholders (rather than paying a dividend).

In addition, SABMiller will be able to pay its current shareholders nearly $ 2 billion ($ 1.22 a share) in dividends for the period up to March 2016, and will be entitled to a $ 3 billion break fee from ABI if the deal fails to complete.

Companies in emerging economies choose to generate wealth for shareholders not by paying dividends, but by aggressively reinvesting capital to spur growth.

Dividends for preferred shareholders are established at a percent of the principal, similar to an interest paying debt product, usually between 4 % and 10 % annually.

ASICMiner, who opted to produced ASICs solely for in house mining, has started paying dividends to its shareholders.

(Reuters)- Murphy Oil Corp (MUR.N) said it will spin off its smaller retail gasoline business in the United States, review options for other assets, pay a special dividend and buy back shares as it seeks to return more cash to shareholders.

Plan B calls for giving this money directly to the banks and leading insurance companies, on terms that let them continue paying high executive salaries and dividends to existing shareholders rather than wiping them out as normally happens when an enterprise has Negative Equity.

The company has paid out growing dividends to shareholders for 26 straight years.

«U.S. multinational corporations can defer paying tax on profits they earn abroad indefinitely by agreeing not to use the earnings for certain purposes, like paying dividends to shareholders, financing domestic acquisitions, guaranteeing loans, or making investments in physical capital in the U.S..

First, the indemnity payments offered by the government may not be enough to avoid companies from generating zero to negative EBIDTA, to offset investment and asset impairments, and ultimately to generate enough cash for future investments and net income to continue paying dividends (which would be a severe blow particularly to preferred 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.

They can reinvest it to grow their business, save it for a rainy day or pay off debt, or send it to shareholders as dividends or share repurchases.

For a fund that elects to pass through its foreign taxes paid (a non-cash item), a shareholders allotted share of foreign taxes has been added to the Ordinary Dividend cash distributions received by the shareholder.

NFPs will lose their tax - exempt status if income is payable to or available for the benefit of members or shareholders, or if the entity has the ability to declare or pay dividends.

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).

That also explains why Emerson has been able to generate strong cash flow and pay out higher dividends to shareholders year after year for more than six decades.

Because dividends are not tax free (as they are in pass through entities once tax on entity level earning has been paid by the owners - which would look politically ugly in a publicly held company context letting people receive millions in dividends and pay not taxes on it), and there is no deduction for dividends paid to the corporation (in most contexts), and there is no tax credit for taxes paid at the corporate level against income tax liability on dividends, the end result is that there is double taxation of corporate profits both when the profits are earned by the corporation and again when they are distributed to shareholders.

If Ford Motor Company pays corporate income taxes in 45 U.S. states in addition to its federal corporate income taxes, and distributes dividends to hundreds of thousands of shareholders in all 50 states and many foreign countries, figuring out how to properly give dividend payees the right amount of tax credit for state income taxes paid is an intractable problem.

He said it was up to BP — under pressure in the US to suspend its dividend to help pay for damage — to decide on its payout to shareholders.

Our companies pay more than $ 200 billion in dividends to shareholders and generate more than $ 540 billion in sales for small and medium - sized businesses annually.

Corporate Class Dividends paid on February 22, 2017Bridgehouse Corporate Class Inc. paid eligible dividends for the Greystone Canadian Equity Income & Growth Class and Sionna Canadian Equity Private Pool to shareholders of record at the close of business on Tuesday February Dividends paid on February 22, 2017Bridgehouse Corporate Class Inc. paid eligible dividends for the Greystone Canadian Equity Income & Growth Class and Sionna Canadian Equity Private Pool to shareholders of record at the close of business on Tuesday February dividends for the Greystone Canadian Equity Income & Growth Class and Sionna Canadian Equity Private Pool to shareholders of record at the close of business on Tuesday February 21, 2017.

The second is a company can pay a cash dividend to existing shareholders as a form of appreciation for their ownership.

The last 5 years have not been as kind to the stock price, but it hasn't been a disaster for shareholders either — the stock's up 55 % and the company has paid an increasing, regular quarterly dividend.

When companies pay dividends, they make it possible for shareholders to increase their positions in the company or maintain their current stake while still being rewarded for remaining loyal.

For example, a stock might pay quarterly dividends to shareholders, or a bond might make quarterly interest payments.

They are combined in different ways (ratios) so that they present the metrics that are important to paying and growing dividends for shareholders.

This includes correctly identifying the extreme dividend growth and capital appreciation awaiting Visa shareholders in general during its rise from $ 50 to $ 130 per share over the past four years, Schwab investors during Brexit when the stock was at $ 25 before rising to $ 60, or pointing out the inanity of paying $ 71 per share for classic blue - chip staple General Mills in the summer of 2016 (triggering my only ever «short» article for a blue - chip stock in my history of writing).

If companies can not find a better way of spending its net income to boost overall returns than paying out dividends for the owners, then it makes senses for them to pay out dividends so that shareholders can take the money and invest in elsewhere.

Canadian addresses - Dividends payable to shareholders (including individuals or intermediary accounts) with a «registered» address in Canada shall be converted into and paid in Canadian funds at the rate quoted for Canadian funds by the Bank of Canada at noon on the Record Date.

For shareholders, investing in a company that pays regular dividend is comparable, and sometimes preferable, to buying bonds or fixed deposits.

The basic premise behind the strategy is that companies have three options for returning cash to shareholders — dividends, share buybacks, and paying down debt.

Note that for this deduction, QBI doesn't include capital gains (short or long - term), dividend income, interest income, wages paid to s - corporation shareholders or that you earn as an employee, guaranteed payments to partners or LLC members, or money generated outside the United States.

Company ABC decides to pay half of these earnings ($ 50 million) in dividends to its shareholders, paying $ 10 for each share for a dividend yield of 10 %.

For example, when companies make profits, many retain a portion to reinvest in their businesses and pay out the remainder to shareholders as dividends.

It is money that you receive just for being a shareholder in a company that pays dividends, and the money is not connected to you buying or selling stock.

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.

Atypically, Yahoo appears to show a grossed - up dividend (i.e. the dividend, adjusted for franking credits) rather than the actual dividend paid to a shareholder.

For example, a company that missed two years worth of preferred share dividends would have to pay all the missed payments before it paid out anything to the common shareholders.

This means consistent sales, ability for the company to pay a decent dividend and (hopefully for shareholders) a steady share price no matter the investing environment.

The typical preferred shareholder is dependent for his safety on the ability and desire of the company to pay dividends on its common stock.

I routinely scan for dividend increases because that tells me the company has the cash necessary to pay shareholders a rising stream of cash, and management is confident about future prospects.

Our dividend checklist takes into account 30 + different quantitative and qualitative metrics related to paying and growing dividends for shareholders.

For Q2 2014, Goldcorp paid $ 122 million in dividends to its shareholders.

For example, dividends owed but not paid to cumulative preferred shareholders accumulate in a separate account (arrears).

I'm merely stating that after funding the pension (in line with mgmt comments) and paying the expected dividend (while not an obligation to shareholders, mgmt knows the company's relative valuation is at least partially based on its yield relative to peers and will not likely cut it) there is no capital left for growth, share repurchaes or to raise the dividend.

This is a special problem for ETFs that are organized as unit investment trusts (UITs), which, by law, can not reinvest dividends in more securities and must hold the cash until a dividend is paid to UIT shareholders.

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).