Not exact matches
And yet the «
payout ratio» of dividends to profits remains a modest 22 %, which indicates Nike can easily afford
more shareholder raises in the future.
The Canadian industry was salivating for it, of course, panting to use it for
more mergers, foreign acquisitions and
payouts to
shareholders.
But the short - term interests of any individual firm's
shareholders are best served by
more financial
payouts.
The move of the short end has been even
more pronounced, however, one reason why so many banks are reporting shrinkage in net margins even as
shareholder payouts of capital surge.
Management does distribute a special profit - sharing
payout to all employees and
shareholders each year — last year's equalled a quarterly
payout — but there's
more room to run.
On April 19, Akzo detailed plans to separate its speciality chemicals business, announced additional
payouts to
shareholders of 1.6 billion euros in 2017 and promised to become
more profitable by 2020.
A high
payout ratio may mean that the company is sharing
more of its earnings with its
shareholders.
Even if one company happens to reduce or eliminate their
payout to
shareholders, a properly diversified investor should still receive
more annual income as the increases from the rest of the portfolio offset what is lost.
And most important for me as a dividend growth Investor: the company
more than quintupled its
payouts to
shareholders.
In fiscal 2017, the company returned
more than $ 1.2 billion to
shareholders through stock repurchases and dividend
payouts.
Working my butt off for 50 + hours per week for years on end only to see a highly likely cut in my commission checks and then seeing the
payouts in the companies I'm invested in rise relentlessly year after year no matter how crappy of a
shareholder I am in real life allows for an interesting contrast and really opens ones eyes: being a
shareholder is much
more rewarding with much less work required.
More likely, your yield on cost is going to fall if this fund cuts its
payouts to
shareholders — just as it has done almost every year over the past decade.
Instead of simply pocketing a dividend
payout,
shareholders have the opportunity of repurchasing
more shares of common stock through a dividend reinvestment plan,
more commonly referred to as a DRIP.