Sentences with phrase «paying dividends to shareholders rather»

He's prized these companies for their growth potential, so when the odd one started paying dividends to shareholders rather than using all available dollars to fund growth, he usually concluded they had passed their innovative prime.

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

This is one reason why the S&P 500 trades at a price / book value ratio of nearly 6, compared to a historical norm below 2.0: companies have created virtually no underlying shareholder value by retaining earnings rather than paying them out as dividends.

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.

Rather, it will simply be prohibited from paying out dividends to its common shareholders, and also from repurchasing any of its common shares.

It just means that any surpluses, rather than being paid out to a few external wealthy shareholders in the form of dividends, are instead invested back into the club to help achieve the club's goal of winning trophies.

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.

Smaller companies are often focused on growth, so they are more likely to reinvest their profits in the business, rather than paying dividends to their shareholders.

These firms tend to no longer be in rapidly growing industries and — rather than reinvesting retained earnings to grow — pay out retained earnings as dividends to provide a return to shareholders.

-LSB-...] It's one that's profitable rather than not profitable, returning cash to shareholders (paying a dividend) rather than not, and growing rather than -LSB-...]

Because these institutions operate on a not - for - profit basis, the savings are passed on to the members in the form of low interest rate loans and high - interest rate savings accounts keeping more money in the local community, rather than paying high salaries for bank executives or dividends for shareholders.

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.